(2021 Fall C16 Term) NU674-7

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide students further studies related to psychiatric/mental health care management of patients across the life span to include underlying acute and chronic psychiatric/mental health disorders. Clinical opportunities will be utilized to apply concepts in primary and acute care settings with adults and families.

Program Outcomes

Students are expected to meet all the core MSN program outcomes as well as the Psychiatric Mental Health program outcomes. Upon completion of their program, the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate critical thinking and holistic caring as an advanced practice nurse.
• Analyze scientific literature for application to selected diagnoses and treatment plans.
• Synthesize ethical principles into the management and evaluation of healthcare delivery concerns in culturally diverse care settings.
• Articulate a personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional and accrediting agency competencies relating to the role and scope of practice of the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
• Implement the role of the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in selected clinical settings.

Course Objectives

• Apply knowledge, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, of chronic and acute psychiatric mental health disorders using the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders diagnostic criteria to assess, diagnose and manage the patient populations across the lifespan including a focus on vulnerable populations at risk for mental health disorders.
• Integrate, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, complete mental health assessment, interview, history, and physical exam data collection with the knowledge of pathophysiology and psychopathology of psychiatric mental health disorders across the life span to form differential diagnoses and implement therapeutic, patient-centered treatment plans and interventions for patient populations across the lifespan.
• Merge, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, traditional and complementary pharmacological/non-pharmaceutical interventions into the treatment and management of psychiatric mental health disorders for patient populations across the lifespan.
• Examine, evaluate, and demonstrate, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, professional development in the role of the nurse practitioner in the diagnosis and management of health and wellness as well as acute and chronic psychiatric mental health disorders/illnesses for patient populations across the lifespan as a member of an interprofessional team.
• Integrate, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, cultural, spiritual, and social competencies into therapeutic patient-centered treatment plans in connection with evidence-based findings to the diagnosis and management of individuals, groups, and families across the lifespan with acute, complex, and chronic psychiatric mental health disorders.
• Analyze, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, professional values, and core ethical/legal standards into the practice of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner role with relation to patient/staff safety, quality indicators, and health outcome improvement in the delivery of quality psychiatric mental health care to patients.
• Identifies, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, the highest level of professionalism and accountability for the PMHNP role for transition into clinical practice.

Course Materials

Required:

American Nurses Association & American Psychiatric Nurse Association. (2015). Psychiatric–mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.) Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing. ISBN-13: 978-1558105553 ISBN-10: 1558105557

American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Washington, DC: APA Press. ISBN 9781433832161

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.) (DSM-5). Washington DC: APA Press. ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2015). Kaplan and Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). London, England: Lippincott Williams, and Wilkins. 9781609139711

Recommended: 

Bickley, L. (2016). Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History-Taking [VitalSouce bookshelf version]. https://batesvisualguide.com/. Eleventh, North American Edition; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: ISBN 1609137620

Carlat, D. J. (2017). The psychiatric interview (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 9781496327710

Corey, G. (2016). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (10th ed.). Boston, MA:Cengage. ISBN: 9781305263727

Heldt, J. P., MD. (2017). Memorable psychopharmacology. Create Space Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN-13: 978-1-535-28034-1

Johnson, K., & Vanderhoef, D. (2016). Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner review manual (4th ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association. ISBN: 978-1-935213-79-6

Shea, S. C. (2017). Psychiatric interviewing: The art of understanding (3rd ed.) Elsevier.

Stahl, S. M. (2013). Stahl’s essential psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific basis and practical applications (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-68646-5

Stahl, S. M. (2020). Prescriber’s guide: Stahl’s essential psychopharmacology (7th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108926010

Yearwood, E.L., Pearson, G.S., & Newland J.A. (2012). Child and adolescent behavioral health. Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 9780813807867