MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

 

  1. History/Legal and Ethical Issues

1.      Outline the historical progress of mental health care

2.      Recognize current issues in the ethical and legal aspects of mental health nursing

  1. Mental Health Aspects

1.      Define terms related to commitment and psychiatric holds

2.      Describe the mental health continuum

3.      Define characteristics of people who are mentally healthy and those who are mentally ill

4.      Describe the parts of the personality according to Freud

5.      Discuss Erikson’s stages of psycho-social development

6.      List the psycho-social changes at the different stages

7.      Apply the theory of Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs to life span development and the hospitalized patient

8.      Specify the standards for psychiatric and mental health nursing established by the ANA

  1. Communication and Interpersonal Skills

1.      Recognize basic components of the communication process

2.      Select three helpful phrases for good communication

3.      Choose three phrases that might close off effective communication

4.      Identify barriers to communication

5.      Identify key elements that constitute therapeutic communication

6.      Identify transcultural issues as they relate to mental health nursing

  1. Mental Health Assessment

1.      Describe the components of the psycho-social assessment

2.      Specify the four major components of the nursing process used as a standard in psychiatric (psychosocial) nursing

  1. Psychological Response to Physical Illness

1.      Differentiate between normal and abnormal psycho-social responses to acute, terminal, and chronic illness

2.      State three characteristics of near-death experiences

3.      Name three behaviors seen in patients in the recovery phase of cardiac illness

4.      State common family responses to acute illness of a family member

5.      Identify nursing actions necessary in care of patients being transferred from ICU/CCU

6.      Explain the concept of loss on the grief reaction

7.      Identify the needs of the grieving client and family

8.      Describe techniques in assisting the dying client to say “good-bye”

  1. Use and Administration of Psychotropic Medication 

1.      Identify the classifications of psychotropics

2.      Recognize the signs and symptoms that may be relieved by psychotropic medications

  1. Nursing Care of Client with an Eating Disorder

1.      Specify theories of causation for eating disorders

2.      Recognize signs and symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa

3.      Indicate nursing diagnosis appropriate for eating disorders

4.      Recognize which nursing interventions are appropriate when working with a client who is anorexic or bulimic

  1. The Addictive Personality

1.      Define key terms related to hallucinogens, cannabis and deliriants

2.      Name three types of addictions

3.      Describe two disorders associated with drug addictions

4.      Discuss why nurses are at an increased risk to develop chemical dependency

5.      Explain the concept of intervention as a relation to alcoholism

6.      Indicate which treatments for alcoholism are currently available

7.      Choose the correct pharmacological agent for use in alcohol withdrawal

8.      Describe what is meant by enabling behavior

9.      Recognize the signs and symptoms of abuse/overdose of, and withdrawal from, amphetamines, cocaine, heroine, stimulants

  1. Community Mental Health

1.      Identify five mental challenges of the older adult

2.      Identify some possible reasons for homelessness

3.      Identify nursing care for people who are homeless

4.      Differentiate among different kinds of abuse

5.      Identify characteristics of an abuser

6.      Identify nursing care to help survivors of abuse

  1. Major Mental disorders

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