Departments - Mental Health Nursing (Psychiatric)

Our Mental Health Nursing department transcends traditional boundaries. We integrate theories and concepts from diverse disciplines and cultures to equip students with providing exceptional care for individuals, families, and communities facing mental health challenges. Our program fosters a commitment to safe, high-quality, and patient-centered care.

Objectives

• Apply theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines and cultures in providing care for diverse individuals, families, and communities living with mental health problems.
• Apply factors that create a culture of caring and advocacy while providing care for groups of diverse individuals, families, and communities experiencing mental health problems.
• Provide safe, high quality, and consumer-centered mental healthcare.
• Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, inter professional perspectives, and patient preferences in planning, implementing and evaluating comprehensive mental healthcare.
• Apply self knowledge gained through reflection on one’s own beliefs and values while providing mental healthcare to diverse individuals, families, and communities experiencing mental health problems.
• Practice therapeutic use of self while promoting recovery with diverse individuals, families, and communities experiencing mental health problems.
• Demonstrate collegiality while working as a member of the mental-health care team
• Identify ethics and legalities related to mental health care
• Demonstrate therapeutic communication, including therapeutic use of self
• Take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of clients, yourself, and others
• Admit clients to the psychiatric/mental health unit, including all assessment and documentation
• Develop and implement nursing care plans that meet the needs of assigned psychiatric/mental health clients
• Develop and implement teaching and learning plans that meet the needs of assigned psychiatric/mental health clients
• Develop group therapy leadership skills
• Develop knowledge of psychiatric/mental health adjunctive therapies
• Carry a full client load on the psychiatric unit
• Articulate awareness of standards and scope of practice related to personal level of competency
• Demonstrate safe, competent medication administration
• Develop and implement pre-discharge care plans that meet the needs of psychiatric/mental health clients
• Discharge clients from the psychiatric/mental health unit, following all hospital procedures and documentation requirements