NU 400 - Mental Health / Psychiatric Nursing

• Evaluate professional behaviors and articulate knowledge of the standards and scope of practice of psychiatric nursing and the legal and ethical aspects of psychiatric nursing. (Essentials VIII #1) Professionalism.
• Develop comprehensive awareness of the global aspects of psychiatric care and collaborate with others in planning safe holistic nursing plans of care for people at risk for or with diagnosed mental illness, and people who are distressed, suffering, or in need of psychosocial support, guidance or helpful information.  (Essentials IX #1)  Holistic care.
• Explore effective therapeutic communication with client, families, and the multidisciplinary health care team.  Also, sets and maintains appropriate professional boundaries. (Essentials IX #4) Communication outcome.
• Explore critical and systematic thinking and nursing judgment in the provision of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care in partnership with the multidisciplinary health care team, persons with mental health problems and mental illnesses and their families. (Essentials IX # 9, # 13, Essential III #6  and Essential VI #2) Critical thinking outcome.
• Adapt the need for safety and utilize continual assessment methods to manage the detection, prevention, intervention and post-intervention phases of crisis situations with persons with mental health problems and mental illnesses. (Essentials IX #13) Safety outcome.