NURS 3150U – Health and Healing: Mental Health

This course focuses on concepts and principles of mental health nursing. Common mental health challenges are discussed, with an emphasis on nursing strategies for assessing, promoting, maintaining, and restoring mental health. Students are provided with opportunities through the course content, online discussions, and learning activities/assignments to apply concepts of mental health nursing to the care of individuals experiencing acute and long term mental health challenges. Nursing assessment skills including mental status assessment and nursing intervention strategies such as therapeutic communication skills are facilitated. Students will also develop greater self-awareness and an understanding of the role of the therapeutic use of self in the provision of care.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): HLSC 0880U and NURS 0420U
Note(s): This course is restricted to students in the RPN-BScN program.