outline the teaching strategies used Specific course activities identify the learning and assessment requirements that students are to fulfill throughout the duration of the course. Student assignments Date/Week Objectives Content Outline Specific Course Activity Student Assignments Weeks 1 & 2 Differentiate between mental Principles of mental health 1. Review hospital policy and Week 1: health mental illness. and mental illness. procedures regarding student Clinical Orientation Discuss the importance of Physical and Mental role in the clinical setting. CLO # physical assessment and mental Status Assessment. 2. Identify patient behaviors Review Safety and 1, 2, 4, 7 status examination to determine Safety and a may encounter in the Professionalism document the overall health care status of professionalism. clinical setting. and bring on the first day of the mentally ill client. Legal and Ethical 3. Discuss personal feelings, clinical Assure safety of client/self Guidelines for Safe Practice. values, beliefs, and fears through to Personal assumptions while working in a psychiatric Medication Dosage organizational safety processes. when caring for psychiatric setting. Calculation Quiz Demonstrate knowledge of legal clients. 4. Perform physical and issues/policies in mental health Cultural Implications for mental status assessment for Review HIPPA, regarding involuntary seclusion, Psychiatric Mental Health clients with a diagnosis of National Patient Safety safe application of restraints and Nursing. Schizophrenia or other Goals, and medication administration. Self-Awareness when Psychotic Disorders. Standard Precaution Examine personal assumptions caring for psychiatric clients. 5. Identify antipsychotic and concepts about mental Milieu participation. medications prescribed on Week 2: health and mental illness. Psychiatric scope of your client and determine Daily Charting (physical Observe the influence of culture, practice side effects, nursing assessment and mental age, sexual orientation, Schizophrenia and other considerations, and rationale status examination), Include spirituality and family on a psychotic disorders for its use. Medication List client’s psychiatric care. 6. Identify your client’s legal Increase awareness of personal hold status and discuss the Role-play with classmate’s feelings, values, beliefs, and fears basis and criteria. responses to anger and about mental health and illness, 9. Locate the list of patient aggression and discuss how and working in a psychiatric rights, including the patient’s these responses can affect setting. right to treatment, right to nursing interventions.
Specific course activities outline the teaching strategies used Student assignments identify the learning and assessment requirements that students are to fulfill throughout the duration of the course. Date/Week Objectives Content Outline Specific Course Activity Student Assignments Weeks 1 & 2 CLO # 1, 2, 4, 7 Differentiate between mental health mental illness. Discuss the importance of physical assessment and mental status examination to determine the overall health care status of the mentally ill client. Assure safety of client/self through to organizational safety processes. Demonstrate knowledge of legal issues/policies in mental health regarding involuntary seclusion, safe application of restraints and medication administration. Examine personal assumptions and concepts about mental health and mental illness. Observe the influence of culture, age, sexual orientation, spirituality and family on a client’s psychiatric care. Increase awareness of personal feelings, values, beliefs, and fears about mental health and illness, and working in a psychiatric setting. Principles of mental health and mental illness. Physical and Mental Status Assessment. Safety and professionalism. Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Safe Practice. Personal assumptions when caring for psychiatric clients. Cultural Implications for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Self-Awareness when caring for psychiatric clients. Milieu participation. Psychiatric scope of practice Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders 1. Review hospital policy and procedures regarding student role in the clinical setting. 2. Identify patient behaviors a may encounter in the clinical setting. 3. Discuss personal feelings, values, beliefs, and fears while working in a psychiatric setting. 4. Perform physical and mental status assessment for clients with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia or other Psychotic Disorders. 5. Identify antipsychotic medications prescribed on your client and determine side effects, nursing considerations, and rationale for its use. 6. Identify your client’s legal hold status and discuss the basis and criteria. 9. Locate the list of patient rights, including the patient’s right to treatment, right to Week 1: Clinical Orientation Review Safety and Professionalism document and bring on the first day of clinical Medication Dosage Calculation Quiz Review HIPPA, National Patient Safety Goals, and Standard Precaution Week 2: Daily Charting (physical assessment and mental status examination), Include Medication List Role-play with classmate’s responses to anger and aggression and discuss how these responses can affect nursing interventions.
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