NURS 222 - Psychiatric/ Mental- Health Nursing

Institution:

Santa Fe Community College

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Description:

This course includes applying the caring attributes and processes while acquiring the knowledge and skills to care for the client, family and groups of clients with psychiatric mental-health problems across the life span. It presents the factors predisposing individuals, families and groups to mental-health problems. It includes an introduction to the current basic concepts of mental health and mental illness and to the knowledge and skills needed to provide psychiatric mental-health nursing therapeutic interventions in the hospital and the community. The historical development of psychiatric mental-health nursing, theoretical application to practice, current trends in mental health-care delivery and the role of the nurse on the interdisciplinary mental health-care team when providing safe, comprehensive and collaborative nursing care are included. Prerequisites: BIOL 221, NURS 121 and PSYC 111 or PSYC 130. Corequisite: NURS 222L. Offered: Fall and Spring.

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.sfcc.edu

Phone Number:

(505) 428-1000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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