Students will have opportunities to strengthen leadership skills within the psychiatric nursing role in collaboration with members of health care teams. Weekly seminars assist to integrate concepts and issues related to practice settings. This course promotes integration and internalization of the values, concepts, patterns, interventions and skills relevant to professional psychiatric nursing practice within the health care delivery system. The focus will be on assisting the student to assume the professional role with persons, families, groups and communities experiencing a wide range of complex health challenges. This practice course is a preceptorship experience with placement in a variety of mental health care settings.
Students integrate specialized knowledge and skills while functioning as full team members.
This distance learning course provides an overview of acute psychiatric nursing. The learner will be presented with theory and related applications for working with clients in acute psychiatric care. The purpose of the course is to build understanding of the practice implications given the shift in psychiatric nursing care from institutions to community. The course addresses those changes in relation to psychiatric nursing in an acute care setting. This distance learning course continues to provide an overview of acute psychiatric nursing.