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Canyon College

COURSE SYLLABUS:  Mental Health Nursing

Course Title:	NR322 - Mental Health Nursing
Department:	Health Sciences
Instructor:	Ann Ingman, Ed.D. E-Mail - Vita
Credits:	4 Semester Credits

COURSE OVERVIEW:

This course is designed to introduce the student to the standards of the psychiatric and mental health nursing practice. The course includes the discussion of professional activities utilized by the nurse through the nursing process. These involve diagnosis, outcome, identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The nursing process forms the foundation of clinical decision making and encompasses all significant action taken by nurses in providing developmentally and culturally relevant psychiatric mental health care to all patients.

This course will enable you to increase your knowledge of the nursing process by:

• Identifying the methods of collecting patient health data
• Recognizing the responsibilities of making sound clinical judgements and planning appropriate interventions with the patient
• Recognizing and identifying the guidelines for analyzing the assessment data in determining diagnosis
• Recognizing and identifying patterns of response to actual or potential psychiatric illnesses, mental health problems, and potential comorbid physical illness.
• Recognizing and identifying skills needed to identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient
• Recognizing that the ultimate goal of providing nursing care is to influence mental health outcomes and improve the patient’s health status
• Identifying the methods for developing a plan of care that is negotiated among the patient, nurse, family, and health care team, and prescribing evidence-based interventions to attain expected outcomes
• Identifying the wide range of interventions designed to prevent mental and physical illness as well as promoting, maintaining, and restoring mental and physical health
• Appraising the effect of nursing and the treatment regimen of the patient’s health status and expected outcome

COURSE TEXTBOOK:    Online Bookstore

Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A clinical Approach, Fourth Edition, by Elizabeth M. Varcarolis.  W. B. Saunders (Elsevier), ISBN: 0721688969

HOW TO CONTACT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

I can be contacted by email through my canyon college address at aingman@canyoncollege.edu or my personal email address at amaslak01@aol.com. I will usually respond within 24 hours. If I will be away for a longer period of time I will let you know ahead of time.

Special Assignment
I like to get to know my students with a short biography that you will post in the Forum board. You can get to the forum board via the classroom. After you get to our classroom, please click on COMMO, then click on the FORUM. There will be a pause for a few minutes so don't try to login or register. It is not necessary. After a lists of classes show up, scroll down to Nursing courses and Click on NR322 and the Biography topic will be listed. Click on Biography and read all about me and any other students bios. Then click on ADD reply to respond with your biography. You have to scroll all the way over to the right to see the message box. Type in your text and then hit ADD reply. Don't hit preview post or you will get lost . After you have successfully posted your response email me to let me know you have done so. This is the only time you will have to go to the forum. Everything else you need is in the classroom or via email. If you have trouble getting in the forum, don't worry about it. Just email me your bio and I will then email you mine. If you have any questions whatsoever, please email me.

ASSIGNMENTS
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS

• Readings: Weekly Readings in the textbook.
• Weekly Lecture containing journal articles
• Study Sheets: Note--There are 8 study guides, one for each chapter, posted under “Assignment” in your classroom. The assignment is optional and is not to be turned in, but I strongly recommend that you complete the questions as you read the text. One hundred percent of the quizzes, midterm, and final exams will be questions taken from the study sheets.
• Weekly Quizzes: You are required to take a weekly quiz consisting of 15-25 questions covering the weekly readings in the text. Quizzes are taken online via the Canyon College web site. When you have completed a week's work go ahead and take the quiz. You'll get feedback on your progress as you take your exams with a report sent to your e-mail address from your instructor.
• Midterm: The midterm will consist of 50-60 multiple-choice questions covering the first four weeks.
• Final: The final exam will consist of 50-60 multiple-choice questions covering the last four weeks of class.

Weekly Quizzes: You are required to take 6 weekly quizzes consisting of 15-25 questions covering the weekly readings in the text. Quizzes are taken online via the Canyon College web site. When you have completed a week's work go ahead and take the quiz. You'll get feedback on your progress as you take your exams with a report sent to your e-mail address by your instructor within 24 hours. Each quiz is worth 10 points. 10x6=60 points

Midterm Exam and Final Exam
The Midterm will be taken in the Exam Room at the end of Week 4 (instead of quiz 4). The Final will be taken at the end of Week 8 (instead of quiz 8}. You may only enter the Exam Room once and you have 2 hours to complete it. Once in a while a student may be knocked out in the middle of an exam. If this happens please e-mail me immediately. Each Exam is worth 20 points. 2x20=40 points.

Request access to the Midterm or Final 3 business days ahead of your desired time to take it. You will receive instructions on accessing and taking that examination.

Total 100 points

A = 90-100
B = 80-89
C = 70-79
D = 60-69

All Students are expected to earn a “B” grade or better.

Lesson	Lesson	Chapter
Week 1	Basic Psychiatric Concepts.	1
	Mental Health Nursing in Acute Care Settings.	5
	Mental Health Nursing in Community Settings.	6
	Mental Health Nursing in the Community.	Lecture 1
	Developing Therapeutic Relationships.	10
Week 2	Assessment Strategies and the Nursing Process.	9
	The Clinical Interview and Communication Skills.	11
	Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Safe Practice.	8
	HMO's & Psychiatric Illnesses.	Lecture 3
Week 3	Caring - Nursing Education Appeal.	Lecture 2
	Anxiety Disorders.	14
	Suicide.	23
	Suicide: Juveniles & Antidepressants.	Lecture 4
	Anger and Aggression.	24
Week 4	Mood Disorders: Depression.	18
	Mood Disorders: Bipolar.	19
	Mood Disorders: In Children.	Lecture 5
	Midterm Exam.	- -
Week 5	Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders.	20
	Schizophrenia Treatments.	Lecture 6
	Severe Mental Illness: Crisis Stabilization and Rehabilitation.	28
	Severe Mental Illness: Raising Standards.	Lecture 7
Week 6	Somatoform and Dissociate Disorders.	15
	Personality Disorders.	16
Week 7	Crisis.	22
	Sexual Assault.	26
	Family Violence.	25
Week 8	Eating Disorders.	17
	Eating Disorders - Feelings.	Lecture 8
	Therapeutic Groups.	34
	Family Therapy.	35
	Final Exam.	- -

What To Do First:

• Order your textbook immediately.
• Read my Biography on the Forum Board and respond with your Biography.
• Notify me via email with your name and email address with your name and class number in the subject heading or in the body of the text.
• Until you receive your textbook, you may get started by reading the Lecture for Week #1 and review the Discussion Question.
• Contact me by email anytime with questions, clarifications, feedback, etc.