PNE 106 - Basic Principles of Mental Health Nursing

3 Credit(s)

This course is designed to promote the understanding that all nursing has a behavioral health component. Principles of mental health are taught, as well as characteristics and treatment of mental health disorders, and domestic violence recognition and interventions. Therapeutic nursing techniques emphasizing communication skills, normal and abnormal behaviors, treatment modalities and developmental needs are applied to meet the psychological needs of the client and to foster the nurse-client relationship. This course provides an overview of psychosocial adaptation and coping concepts used when caring for clients with acute and chronic alterations in mental health in a variety of settings.

Contact Hours: 90
Clinical: 67.5
Hours Lecture: 22.5
Prerequisite: Program Admission, PNE 110, PNE 101, PNE 102, PNE 103, PNE 104
Corequisite: PNE 105