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Clinical Management II: Diagnostic Management & Treatment Strategies
Course #: NURSNG 648
Description:
This is the second clinical course that emphasizes the theoretical bases for psychiatric diagnosis and treatment interventions across the lifespan. Advanced interview methods and diagnostic skills are a course thread. Cognitive treatment and evidence based therapy techniques are applied. The PMHNP learns to manage common psychiatric disorders using clinical practice guidelines and research. Students provide a full spectrum of mental health services to the increasingly complex patients with a combination of higher risk, acute illness, and chronic & comorbid health conditions where atypical disease presentation and challenges to disease treatment exist. Seminars focus on the application of Diagnostic theory and research to the domains of practice of the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner role, including the management of patient with minor to serious mental illness, the teaching-coaching function of the nurse practitioner, and ensuring the quality of health care services. Interdisciplinary collaborative practice skills are developed.
Pre Requisites: Pre-requisite: NURSNG 647