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Compare and contrast the concepts of mental health and mental illness
along the adaptive-maladaptive continuum. (I)
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Apply pharmacological theory and nursing interventions for major
psychotropic drugs. (I)
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Utilize fundamental psychiatric nursing theories as they apply to the
care of clients in a psychiatric health care setting. (I)
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Apply the concepts of anxiety and the mental health continuum to the
etiology of mental disorders. (II)
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Describe the psychopathology of specific mental disorders and apply
nursing care principles to clients with these disorders. (II)
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Utilize the legal and ethical standards of practice in caring for
clients in a psychiatric health care setting. (III)
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Prioritize nursing care according to physiological, psychosocial and
cultural needs. (IV)
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Utilize the nursing process and nursing diagnosis in a plan of care
for selected clients in a psychiatric health care facility. (IV)
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Assess and implement therapeutic communication techniques with client
and family. (V)
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Apply the fundamental principles involved in a therapeutic
relationship between the client and the nurse. (V)
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Evaluate basic principles of the nurse/client relationship, and group
interactions within the psychiatric health care setting. (V)
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Formulate a collaborative team of nursing, the client and his family,
and resource persons from health care and community agencies in
meeting the client's health care needs and in designing a discharge
plan. (VI)
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Utilize selected computer simulations and programs as an adjunct to
classroom instruction. (VII)
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