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At the completion of this course, the student will:
A. PROFESSIONAL THREADS:
1. Describe the characteristics and legal role of the professional
nurse.
2. Apply Orem's self-care deficit theory.
3. Write a nursing care plan using the nursing process.
B. PSYCHIATRIC NURSING:
1. Describe the psychopathology of selected psychiatric illnesses
that interfere with the client's ability to meet with universal
self-care needs.
2. Conduct an interview with the patient to assess self-care
requisites, self-care deficits, and self-care abilities using
goal-directed, therapeutic communication.
3. Assess clients' ability to meet their self-care needs.
4. Develop a nursing care plan with the client directed toward
meeting universal self-care deficits utilizing the theoretical
knowledge base.
5. Implement the nursing care plan for assigned clients in various
clinical settings.
6. Implement the medical/psychiatric plan of care within the scope of
nursing practice.
7. Describe the rationale for nursing and medical interventions.
8. Describe the therapeutic use of psychotropic agents in the
treatment of psychopathology.
9. Describe community resources that may be utilized to meet clients'
needs.
10. Document client assessment and interventions using the nursing process
consistent with agency policy.
C. PSYCHIATRIC NURSING SKILLS LAB:
1. Apply therapeutic principles of crisis intervention techniques with
female client who is manifesting extreme anxiety.
2. Demonstrate psychiatric nursing intervention techniques with an
elderly male client who has dementia.
3. Perform therapeutic communication effectively with a delusional
female client who is experiencing auditory command hallucinations.
4. Apply appropriate therapeutic intervention with a severely depressed
female client who is demonstrating suicidal ideation.
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MEDICAL-SURGICAL COMPONENT (THEORY):
A. Professionalism
1. Role transition/legal aspects
2. Nursing models
3. Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory
4. Nursing Process
5. Communication theory
B. Nursing Care of the Psychiatric Client
1. The role of the nurse in the psychiatric setting
2. Personality disorders
a. Self-destructive behavior
b. Suicide
3. Thought disorders
4. Substance abuse
5. Dementia and delirium
6. Anxiety disorders
7. Disturbances of mood disorders
8. Psychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescence
9. Victims of abuse and violence
10. Group process
C. Psychiatric Nursing Skills Lab
1. Psychiatric nursing intervention skills
2. Cognitively impaired client with dementia
3. Client with delusions and hallucinations
4. Depression and suicide intervention
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Varcarolis, E.M. (1998) Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing,
3rd ed. Phhiladelphia, Saunders
