Course Title: NRSG 661 PMHNP Diagnosis & Management I

Credits: 3 (didactic)

Semester Offered: Spring

Prerequisites: NRSG 601, NRSG 602, NRSG 603, NRSG 604, NRSG 605, NRSG 616, NRSG 630

Degree: DNP

AACN Core Competencies for Advanced-Level Nursing Education: 1.3e, 5.1c, 5.3a, 5.3b, 8.3b, and 8.3c

MRJCON DNP Program Learning Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10

 

Course Description:

This graduate nursing course focuses on the role and scope of advanced psychiatric nursing practice. Conducting comprehensive and systematic psychiatric health assessments while building and maintaining a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship is emphasized. Focus is placed on developing and applying interview, assessment, and differential diagnosis skills with focus on psychiatric illness. Clinical judgement includes consideration of physiological, pathophysiological, psychological, biological, anatomical, developmental, sociocultural, and spiritual health care needs of individuals and families across the lifespan. Mental health treatment needs are examined and integrated with consideration to the complex diagnostic process, trauma informed care, and illness recovery.

Catalog Description:

This course focuses on the role and scope of advanced psychiatric nursing practice through assessments and interviewing to formulation clinical judgement. Mental health treatment needs are explored in relation to diagnoses.

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

  1. Integrate the role and scope of a psychiatric advanced practice nurse into developing a personal nursing practice.
  2. Conduct and document a psychiatric evaluation on a peer.
  3. Analyze the use of evidence when interviewing, evaluating, and treating patients.

Exemplars of Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Complete a NONPF self-assessment. (CLO 1)
  2. Complete and document a full psychiatric evaluation. (CLO 1,2,3)
  3. Deliver an evidence-based case presentation at the beginning graduate NP student level. (CLO 2,3)

AACN Competencies:

This course introduces:

1.3e Introduce how to critically analyze current and emerging evidence that influences practice.

5.1c Implement standardized, evidence-based processes for care delivery.

This course develops:

5.3a Identify actual and potential levels of risks to providers within the workplace.

5.3b Recognize how to prevent workplace violence and injury.

This course advances:

8.3b Evaluate how decision support tools impact clinical judgement and safe patient care.

8.3c Use information and communication technology in a manner that supports the nurse-patient relationship.

Curricular Threads addressed in this course:

    • Equity and Inclusion
    • Diversity
    • Cultural Sensitivity
    • Social Determinants of Health Communication
    • Ethics
    • Clinical Judgement
    • Mental Health

Recommended Content:

Neuroscience of mental illnesses, children and adolescent psychiatry, standards of care, psychotherapy, practice guidelines.

Recommended Clinical Experiences/Sites: N/A

 

Approved by GAAC: 12/1/23

Approved by Faculty: 12/14/23