NURS 243 - Mental Health Nursing

1. Apply physiological, psychological, social-cultural, and spiritual concepts needed to provide safe and competent nursing care to patients having disturbances in thought, mood, and behavior in various health care settings.
2. Apply the nursing process using beginning clinical reasoning to assist to patients having disturbances in thought, mood, and behavior with adaptive behaviors in various health care settings.
3. Demonstrate caring for and therapeutic relationship with patients having disturbances in thought, mood, and behavior in various health care settings.
4. Use principles of therapeutic verbal and written communication with other health care team members and with patients having disturbances in thought, mood, and behavior in various health care settings.
5. Use quality and safety competencies, standards of professional nursing practice, and the nursing profession’s legal, ethical, and regulatory framework while providing safe and competent holistic care to patients having disturbances in thought, mood, and behavior in various health care settings.
6. Apply teaching/learning principles to promote healthy behavior and optimal adaptation in patients having disturbances in thought, mood, and behavior in various health care settings.
7. Collaborate with other health care team members and with community resources while providing nursing care to patients having disturbances in thought, mood, and behavior in various health care settings.