Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing DNSG 2228

This course designed to explore and focus on theoretical knowledge, skills concepts and principles of psychiatric and mental health nursing in a variety of contexts and situations (hospitalized patient –community mental health centers),  which to build the student's ability to be aware, deal with, and provide nursing care for the cases in mental health disorders at different health care settings, and help to develop the student's capacity of client health assessment, identifying nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation process of neurosis and psychosis clients, to influence the quality of psychiatric and mental health nursing care. The pharmacological aspects of the nursing care integrated throughout the course. Bio-psychosocial approaches are emphasized. Development of insight, self-awareness and therapeutic communication skills, this will enable the student to become an articulate and caring member of the interdisciplinary health care team.

This course aims of this course is to provide students withknowledge and information about some of the psychiatric and mental health disorders, differentiate between neurosis and psychosis, understand and well aware about psychiatric disorders, construct trust therapeutic relationship with clients, implement mental state examination, numerate the roles of the mental health nurse, identify early warning and relapse signs of each disorder and construct andimplement mental health nursing care plane.

After the completion of this course the student will be able to: