NURS 221X - Behavioral Health Nursing

6 CR

Focuses on the nurse’s therapeutic role in maintaining and enhancing mental health. Students learn to meet the needs of clients with challenged emotional and/or cognitive abilities that impair their day-to-day functioning.

Prerequisite(s): NURS 102X and NURS 102Z.

Course Outcomes
Explore factors that influence behavioral (mental) health and illness. Identify the components of a mental status assessment and professionally communicate mental status assessments in both oral and written formats. Explore culturally-appropriate interventions in response to an individual’s impaired (or challenged) mental status. Evaluate evidence-based practice as a means of providing effective and individualized nursing care related to anxiety, affective, thought and/or personality disorders. Analyze therapy groups in regards to group member roles and therapeutic (“curative”) factors of group therapy. Identify the major classifications and effects of psychotropic medications along with nursing strategies that are relevant to safe and effective medication management in a psychiatric health care setting.

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