Professional Psychiatric Nursing Concepts

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Course
PNUR 3700
Discontinued
No
Course code
PNUR 3700
Descriptive
Professional Psychiatric Nursing Concepts
Department
Nursing - Psychiatric
Faculty
Health Sciences
Credits
3.00
Start date
End term
Not Specified
PLAR
No
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
32
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Contact hours

60 hours/semester

Method(s) of instruction
Online
Lecture
Learning activities

In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities such as discussions, group work, case studies, reading assignments, and remote/virtual meetings. 

Course description
This course facilitates the exploration of the professional self-concept of the student as a psychiatric nurse. It explores the role and practice of psychiatric nursing within historical, developmental, and contemporary mental healthcare contexts. Students will analyze similarities and differences in nursing models and concepts and apply them to psychiatric nursing practice. The Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing Conceptual Framework and Philosophy are applied to psychiatric nursing practice.

Course content
  • Psychiatric Nursing Conceptual Framework
  • Psychiatric Nursing Variable Assessment Guide
  • Nursing knowledge, metaparadigms, concepts, theories, models, and frameworks
  • History and evolution of psychiatric nursing
  • Professionalization and professional self-concept in psychiatric nursing practice
  • Canadian healthcare delivery system and Canadian mental healthcare
  • Leadership in profesional psychiatric nursing practice

 

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  1. Analyze selected nursing theories and concepts;
  2. Identify and apply components of theory and concepts that are applicable to psychiatric nursing practice;
  3. Analyze the psychiatric nursing professional role in relation to other disciplines providing mental health services;
  4. Examine the role of nursing theory in the development of professional identity;
  5. Apply the Psychiatric Nursing Conceptual Framework to psychiatric nursing practice; 
  6. Discuss and integrate research and/or theoretical perspectives to psychiatric nursing concepts and practice. 

 

Means of assessment

The course evaluation is consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course in the Instructor Course Outline. This is a graded course. 

Textbook materials

Textbooks and materials are to be purchased by students. A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of the semester. 

Prerequisites

Admission into:

LPN Access to Psychiatric Nursing Degree Program or

Psychiatric Nursing Degree Completion Program

Corequisites

PNUR 4576 and PNUR 4585 (for students registered in LPN Access to Psychiatric Nursing Degree Program only)

Equivalencies

None

Which prerequisite

PNUR 3702, 3704, 3705, 3707, 3708, 3710, 3720, 3722 and 3730