NURS 7120 - Theories of Advanced Psychiatric Nursing

3 Credit Hours
Pre/Corequisites: NURS 7310, NURS 7320, NURS 7500, NURS 7550, NURS 7900.
Description
Pre requisite: Admission to the PMH program. Pre requisites or co-requisites: NURS 7310, NURS 7320, NURS 7500, NURS 7550, NURS 7900. This course provides concepts critical to the advanced practice of psychiatric nursing. Human responses will be examined using psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, and other paradigms. Critical analysis of historic psychiatric thought will be done in the context of current research findings and sociocultural trends. Concepts that provide a basis for caring and humanistic approaches to mental health and mental illness will be explored. L