NURS 3701U – Health and Healing: Mental Health Nursing Theory and Practicum

The focus of this course is 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 also provided with opportunities to apply concepts of mental health nursing to the care of individuals experiencing acute and long term mental health challenges. Practice occurs in a variety of mental health settings including acute care, long term care and community facilities. Nursing assessment skills, such as mental status assessment, and nursing intervention strategies, such as therapeutic communication, are facilitated. Students will complete 192 hours (inclusive
or course orientation) within a clinical practicum experience. Students will also gain a greater awareness of the self and the role of the therapeutic use of self in the provision of care. Students will demonstrate nursing theory-guided and evidence-informed praxis relevant to this course.
Credit hours: 6
Lecture hours: 3
Other hours: 16
Prerequisite(s): (NURS 2420U and NURS 2700U and NURS 2701U and NURS 2810U)
Note(s): Students must pass both the theoretical (classroom) and practicum (clinical) components of the course to pass the course.