NURS 252 - Nursing Care of the Behavioral Health Client

3 CR

Formerly NURS 221X.
Focuses on the nurse’s therapeutic role in maintaining and enhancing behavioral 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 124 with a grade of C or better, and NURS 125 with credit.

Course Outcomes

Explore factors that influence behavioral (mental) health and illness
Identify the components of a mental status assessment
Communicate mental status assessments in 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 communication
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

Find out when this course is offered