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PMH 640: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Individual Therapy Theories
3 credits
The course is designed to assist the student in developing knowledge, skills, values, and meanings associated with positively influencing the lived health experience of individuals with common psychiatric conditions. Select theories regarding health promotion strategies, assessment, prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation through individual therapy modalities will provide a foundation for care. Prerequisites: All graduate core courses.
PMH 650: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Individual Therapy Practicum
3 credits and 180 clinical hours
This course allows the student to apply knowledge, skills, values, and meanings to positively influence the lived experience of individuals with common psychiatric mental health conditions through the modality of individual therapy in community based and hospital settings. Select theoretical frameworks guide therapy. Prerequisites: All graduate core courses.
PMH 660: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Group, Family, and Community Theory
3 credits
The course is designed to assist the student in developing knowledge, skills, values, and meanings associated with positively influencing the lived health experience of families, groups, and community mental health of individuals with common psychiatric conditions and disordered interpersonal skills. Select theories will provide a foundation for family and group dynamics, assessment, and intervention. Prerequisites: PMH 640 and PMH 650.
PMH 670: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Group, Family, and Community Practicum
3 credits and 180 clinical hours
This course allows the student to apply knowledge, skills, values, and meanings to positively influence the lived experience of individuals with common psychiatric mental health conditions and disordered interpersonal skills through the modality of family, group, and community mental health principles. Select theoretical frameworks will guide therapy approaches. Prerequisites: PMH 640 and PMH 650.
PMH 685: Geriatric Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Theory
3 credits
The course is designed to assist the student in developing knowledge, skills, values, and meanings associated with positively influencing the lived health experience of a geriatric population experiencing concurrent mental illness and/or cognitive decline. Health promotion strategies, assessment measures, through individual, family, and group therapy modalities with this population will be discussed. Corequisites: admission to the graduate program or permission from instructor.
PMH 686: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Theory
3 credits
The course is designed to assist the student in developing knowledge, skills, values, and meanings associated with positively influencing the lived health experience of a children and adolescents experiencing concurrent mental illness and/or cognitive decline. Health promotion strategies, assessment measures, through individual, family, and group therapy modalities with this population will be discussed. Prerequisites: All graduate core courses, PMH 660 and PMH 670.
PMH 692: Elective Practicum in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
2 credits and 140 clinical hours
This course allows the student to apply knowledge, skills, values, and meanings to positively influence the lived experience of a population of their choice with common psychiatric mental health conditions. Individual, family and group psychiatric therapies will be applied across the lifespan on a population of choice such as geriatric, adolescent and child, or substance abusing persons in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Prerequisites: PMH 660 and PMH 670, HP 576, and PMH 685 or PMH 686.
PMH 695: Advanced Nurse Practitioner Practicum in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
4 credits (2 credits for class and 2 credits for clinical) 120 clinical hours
The didactic and clinical components of this course are designed to provide the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) with knowledge, skills, values and meanings beyond the MSN prepared psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist role in relation to differential diagnosis and psychotropic medication management (prescriptive authority). The PMHNP role includes assessment, health promotion, diagnosis, planning, medication management, and ongoing evaluation of psychiatric mental health clients across the lifespan in a variety of settings to include primary care sites. Pharmacotherapy principles and psychosocial factors that influence patients' compliance with, and response to, drug therapy is addressed. The 120-hour practicum applies differential diagnosis and medication management principles to acute and chronic psychiatric clients and fulfills the post-graduate psychiatric clinical nurse specialist clinical requirement for the American Nurses Credentialing Certification PMHNP exam. Pre/corequisites: N550, N560 and N580 or permission of the faculty.