Students will acquire knowledge and skill and learn to apply concepts through a variety of means of instruction and activities, including: lecture, audio-visual aids, case studies, debate forums, critical thinking exercises and team work.
Unit 1: Scope of Practice in Emergency Mental Nursing Practice
- Deinstitutionalization
- Best Practices
- Best Practices and Delivery of Emergency Mental Health Services
- Resource Allocation
- Ethics and Emergency Mental Health
- Advocacy
- Inter-disciplinary Practice
- Leadership and Emergency Mental Health Practice
- Critical Thinking
- Psychiatric Interviewing
- Scope of Practice and Related Stress
Unit 2: Crisis Intervention, Triage and Referrals
- PNUR Conceptual Model in Emergency Mental Health
- Defining Mental Health Crisis and Mental Health Emergencies
- Crisis and Emergency Intervention
- Maturational and Situational Stressors
- Triaging & the Crisis triage rating scale
- Referrals, Baseline and Collateral information
- Telephone, and Mobile Outreach Triage
- Hospital Triage
Unit 3: Application of legislation to emergency mental health nursing practice
- Mental Health Act: Definitions
- MHA related to Emergency Mental Health
- MHA Emergency Procedures
- Extended Leave
- Duty to warn
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Related to Emergency Mental Health
- Consent and Emergency Mental Health Practice
- Adult Guardianship Act Related to Emergency Mental Health
Unit 4: Emergency Mental Health Nursing Assessments, Risk Assessments and Documentation
- Assessment Tools
- Homicide and Violence Risk Assessments
- Documentation
Unit 5: Episodic Health Variances in Emergency Mental Health nursing:
- Variation in thought and perceptual disturbance
- Variation in neurosensory and cognition
- Variation in emotions
- Variation in coping patterns
Upon successful completion of the course the learner will:
- gain an understanding of the scope of practice for emergency mental health nursing;
- develop advanced psychiatric interviewing skills that facilitate assessment and intervention;
- explore legal and ethical issues related to emergency mental health nursing practice;
- gain competency in completing mental health assessments, risk assessments and triaging emergency mental health calls;
- examine a variety of mental health variances, in relation to emergency mental health nursing practice;
- plan dispositions and follow-up care for individuals experiencing mental health crisis or emergency; and
- develop skills to offer crisis line or telephone intervention.
The course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College evaluation policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course.
This is a graded course.
A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.