Master Resource Outline

 

Course Title: Management of Individuals and Groups Utilizing Psychotherapeutic Modalities and Psychotropic Medication

Credits: 6 (3 lecture; 3 clinical lab)

Semesters Offered: Summer

Prerequisites: NRSG 630, NRSG 631

Degree: DNP

DNP Essentials: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII

Graduate Program Objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

 

Course Description:

This course focuses on the treatment and management of mental health problems with consideration to the assessment, diagnoses and comorbid conditions of individuals across the lifespan. This course combines treatment modalities including individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, brief psychotherapy and medication management while integrating multicultural skills for health promotion, clinical prevention and management of mental health problems. Additional focus and consideration are placed on the management of the pediatric and geriatric population.

 

Course Catalog Description:

This course focuses on the treatment and management of mental health problems utilizing individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, brief psychotherapy and medication management. Additional focus and consideration are placed on the management of the pediatric and geriatric population.

 

Course Objectives:

  1. Conduct and document comprehensive and systematic assessments of health and illness to determine the mental health treatment needs of individuals and groups across the lifespan by integrating nursing science with knowledge from ethics, the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, and organizational sciences as the basis for the highest level of nursing practice. (DNP)
  2. Analyze, develop and apply relevant psychotherapeutic strategies for the treatment needs of individuals and groups across the life span based on biopsychosocial theories, evidence-based standards of care, legal, ethical and practice guidelines. To include conducting group and individual therapy.
  3. Evaluate advanced nursing strategies used to treat mental health problems using but not limited to selected psychotherapeutic modalities and pharmacologic agents to individuals and groups across the lifespan.
  4. Demonstrate the effective use of therapeutic communication strategies and sustain therapeutic relationships and partnerships with patients and other professionals to facilitate optimal care and patient outcomes.
  5. Apply supportive, psychodynamic principles, cognitive-behavioral and other evidence-based psychotherapy/-ies to both brief and long-term individual practice.
  6. Develop and document an age-appropriate treatment plan for mental health problems and psychiatric disorders based on biopsychosocial theories, evidence-based standards of care, and practice guidelines.
  7. Safely and appropriately select pharmacologic agents for the management of patient health problems while providing psychoeducation based on patient variations, the problem being managed, and cost effectiveness.

 

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course the student will be able to:

  1. Conduct individual and group psychotherapy (Obj. 2, 3, 4, 5). Exemplar: Psychotherapy process recording, Personal model of psychotherapy
  2. Develop an age-appropriate assessment and treatment plan (Obj. 1, 3, 6, 7). Exemplar: Full psychiatric evaluation
  3. Utilize therapeutic communication during patient and professional interactions (Obj. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Exemplar: Psychotherapy process recording, Advanced Integrated Professional Log (AIPL)

 

Practice Experience in the Curriculum:

Practice immersion experiences afford the opportunity to integrate and synthesize the essentials and specialty requirements necessary to demonstrate competency in an area of specialized nursing practice.

  • 90 hours of APRN medication management.
  • 35 hours of individual therapy.
  • 10 hours of group therapy.

 

Approved by GAAC: 3/8/21

Approved by Faculty: 4/12/2021