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NURSE 5546
Foundations of Family Psychiatric Nursing Advanced Practice
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This foundational course focuses on factors impacting mental health and the development of psychiatric disorders. The scope of practice and roles if the Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner will be introduced. Exploration of the foundations of therapeutic modalities both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic is included. Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation skills will be developed. Attention will be given top the development of therapeutic relationships, assessment considerations across the lifespan, crises evaluation and different types of diagnostic tools and approaches. Diagnostic reasoning skills will be applied to mental illness and students will begin to integrate assessment finding into diagnoses found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual if Mental Disorders. CO-requisite: N5547M Diagnostic Reasoning/Health Assessment.
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Faculty:
School of Nursing & Health Studies
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Department:
Nursing General
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