NUR 444 - Mental Health Nursing

This course provides the student with knowledge, skills, and experiences related to mental health nursing as well as an opportunity to apply previously learned behavioral and scientific concepts to nursing practice. Nursing process and Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) principles provide direction to promote, restore, and maintain the health of patients with mental health concerns. Concepts relate to ethical/legal, professional accountability, community, and Benedictine values will be applied to patient care issues. Past, present, and future trends in mental health nursing will be explored. Discussion of the roles of the interdisciplinary mental health team, with emphasis on the nursing role, will occur throughout the course.

4 Semester Credit(s)

Crosslisted with: N/A
Laboratory/Experience Hours N/A
Prerequisite(s): N/A
Corequisite(s): N/A
Repeatable for Credit No
Core Course No
Grade Type LT