RNSG-2213 Mental Health Nursing

Outcomes

1. Explain the roles of the professional nurse in caring for patients and families experiencing mental health problems.
2. Use therapeutic communication.
3. Utilizes critical thinking skills and a systematic problem-solving process for providing care to patients and families experiencing mental health problems.
4. Explain the use of scientific principles from biological, psychological and social sciences and caring concepts in providing individualized care for clients and families with mental health care needs.
5. Explain how the nurse can provide safe, compassionate, comprehensive nursing care using a broad array of health care services for clients and their families who are experiencing common health care disorders.
6. Describe the use of therapeutic communication modes and techniques to interacting effectively with the family with mental health care needs.
7. Describe a systematic nursing process using a clinical reasoning tool to construct and evaluate an individualized plan of care that includes safe, therapeutic, culturally sensitive, compassionate, evidence-based and educational nursing interventions based on interpretation of assessed needs and other pertinent data for clients and their families with various mental health care needs across the lifespan.
8. Explain state and national regulations, standards, principles and measures that promote a safe environment and reduce risks for clients, self and others and provide quality care for clients and families with mental health care needs.
9. Explain how the nurse formulates goals and outcomes using evidence-based data to reduce safety risks for mental health clients and their families experiencing common health care disorders.
10. Explain others who the nurse communicates with and collaborates with to coordinate all aspects of care for the silent and their families with various mental health care needs.
11. Explain issues related to proving and monitoring quality care for the client and their families with mental health care needs in which the nurse serves as a health care advocate.
12. Summarize appropriate institutional and/or community resources to assist the client and their families with mental health care needs that facilitate continuity of care, health promotion, maintenance, and restoration.
13. Describe legal, regulatory, and ethical standards and principles used to guide the nurse in decision making and demonstrating accountability for his/her own actions to provide safe and skillful nursing care for clients and families with various mental illness health needs.
14. Describe historical, present and future issues and trends that affect mental health nursing care.