NU 425 - Community Mental Health Nursing

This course will provide integration of the science of human care nursing, caring communication, and the framework of psychiatric/mental health nursing. The focus will be illness, illness prevention and health promotion for individuals, families, groups and aggregates experiencing actual or potential alterations in mental health. The process of caring communication will be analyzed and practiced through the development of therapeutic relationships with individuals, families and groups in community-based clinical settings. Strategies of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention will be explored for vulnerable populations such as the homeless, substance abusers, and the persistently mentally ill.

Co-requisite: NU 410.
Credits: 5 hours