Integrative Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
Program Highlights
Program Description
The Integrative Psychiatric Mental Health Concentration prepares graduates for roles as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and nurse practitioner (NP) in Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and holistic nurse (HN). The curriculum is designed with an emphasis on content requisite for certification by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Program. Students enrolled in the Integrative Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Concentration will have experience that reflects both nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist roles associated with the specialty.
Course Descriptions
NURS 501 Advanced Professionalization I
Focuses on socialization to the roles and responsibilities related to advanced practice nursing. Explores applicability of nursing theory to advanced practice nursing.
NURS 502 Advanced Nursing Practice: Pharmacotherapeutics
Develops the requisite knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics necessary for the safe pharmacological management of common patient problems by the advanced practice nurse.
NURS 503 Advanced Nursing Practice: Psychosocial
Examines and analyzes selected psychosocial theories and research, relating them to advanced practice nursing. Derives nursing strategies for phenomena of concern associated with specialty areas.
NURS 504 Advanced Nursing Practice: Biological
Focuses on the biological changes underlying selected health risks and health problems as a framework for critically appraising health assessment data and for understanding advanced nursing therapeutic strategies.
NURS 508 Advanced Nursing Practice: Systems
Provides an understanding of the context in which health services are managed and delivered. Explores social, ethical, and political issues affecting current and future nursing care delivery systems. Examines cost effectiveness of nursing care in a variety of settings.
NURS 509 Advanced Nursing Practice: Community
Examines basic principles, processes, and methods of program planning for health education and health promotion programs utilized by advanced practice nurses. Analyzes community assessment techniques to diagnose and prioritize health needs/problems and to plan, provide and evaluate care for individuals, families and population groups in conjunction with community-based organizations.
NURS 511 Health Assessment for Advanced Nursing Practice
Provides the framework for holistic, culturally relevant assessment of individuals. Focuses on advancing students' knowledge and assessment in health history, risk appraisal, health promotion, psychosocial, developmental and functional assessment and physical examination techniques. Emphasizes the application of diagnostic reasoning skills in assessing deviations from normal in selected content in specialty areas. Includes supervised experiences with advanced clinical assessment skills.
NURS 512 Advanced Nursing Science
Focuses on theory and research in advanced practice with aim of critique and utilization of current theories and findings/outcomes. Emphasizes analysis and synthesis of nursing science in the context of relevant programs, practice problems, issues, and concerns. Reviews major research design and analytic strategies.
NURS 540 Spirituality in Health Care
Explores the phenomenon of spirituality in health and illness across cultures and life spans from a framework of humility and respect for multiple world views. Integrates theory and research as well as individual and communal ways of knowing to provide spiritually sensitive care that nurtures wholeness and promotes healing.
NURS 601 Advanced Professionalization II
Facilitates enactment of selected advanced practice role following graduation from the program. Focuses on issues influencing implementation of selected advanced practice role.
NURS 622 Integrative Pyschiatric Mental Health Nursing Practicum
Uses application of diagnostic algorithms for the most common psychiatric symptoms as a framework in the psychopathological assessment of common disorders seen in adolescents, adults and the elderly. Employs clinical assessment tools to assess the psychiatric and psychosocial needs of families and groups considering the biological, environmental, lifestyle, and sociocultural impact on the diagnosis of individuals with acute or chronic primary health care problems.
NURS 623 Integrative Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practicum II
Prepares individuals for advanced psychiatric mental health practice by integrating theoretical, clinical and research knowledge in acute and primary mental health care settings. Applies nursing process in advanced psychiatric mental health practice. Explores contemporary somatic and psychotherapies with preceptors and faculty in advanced clinical practice. Emphasizes application of integrated knowledge related to theories and therapeutic techniques for individuals, families and groups, particularly urban and underserved. Experiences selected by preceptors considering individual learning needs and desires of students.
NURS 624 Integrative Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practicum III
Prepares individuals to apply knowledge in primary mental health to urban and underserved populations with acute and chronic conditions. Students employ approaches that address population-specific needs of communities with varied social and cultural contexts. Advanced practice nursing care planned, delivered and evaluated consistent with integrative mental health principles and current research findings. Alternative and complementary approaches incorporated based on relevance and efficacy.
NURS 654 Nurse as Integrative Healer
Focuses on understanding and application of principles derived from the art and science of integrative healing to self-care and care of others as critical to the role of advanced practice nurse in mental health and holistic nursing. Provides opportunities for self-exploration and awareness, modeling a wellness lifestyle, and applying practices that support the well-being of others. Uses seminar dialogues, participatory learning strategies and demonstrations as primary modalities of learning. Graded "CO" during summer and fall. Designed for continuing enrollment for one summer session and two academic semesters.
NURS 655 Nurse as Integrative Leader
Explores central theories and practice of leadership with emphasis on implications for the advanced practice nurse. Explores student's capacity for leadership, including contemporary contexts and personal propensities, strengths and deterrents to effective leadership practice. Includes learning experiences designed to enhance student's self-understanding as leader and provide culturally diverse urban arena for practicing emerging competencies. Requires an action plan designed, in consultation with faculty mentor, to systematically improve leadership skills.
NURS 656 Integrative Mental Health Nursing: Management and Treatment of Psychopathology for Advanced Practice Nurses
Synthesizes advanced practice knowledge relevant to the primary care of individuals with psychiatric disorders from a neurobiological and psychopharmacologic perspective. Integrates diagnostic algorithms with biological and psychological theories and research findings pertinent to care of individuals. Addresses knowledge needed for the assessment, diagnosis and management of culturally diverse clients with psychiatric disorders in primary care settings. Examines neurobiology in the context of experience.
NURS 657 Integrative Mental Health Nursing: Contemporary Practice
Prepares individuals for advanced psychiatric mental health nursing practice by integrating theoretical, clinical, and research knowledge for primary mental health care and clinical management of acute and chronic mental health conditions. Explores advanced nursing assessment, classifications and interventions from cultural perspectives in a variety of settings. Emphasizes urban and underserved populations. Covers standards and scope of advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing with emphasis on clinical management, policy-practice relationships and reimbursable services. Examines knowledge of theories and therapeutic techniques for individuals, families and groups within an integrative context for advanced nursing practice and interdisciplinary leadership.
NURS 658 Complementary Healing Modalities
Critically examines complementary health strategies from a variety of perspectives including social, historical, cultural, political and economic contexts. Analyzes philosophical, theoretical and research literature associated with the use of complementary healing modalities. Explores frameworks for advanced nursing practice that incorporate tenets of healing modalities. Students will have the opportunity to select and examine a complementary health strategy for in-depth study and potential application.
NURS 659 Integrative Mental Health Nursing: Synthesis
Focuses on theory and practice of integrative mental health nursing and its roll in addressing acute and chronic conditions from a population-specific perspective. Integrates and synthesizes psychosocial and holistic theories, research, and knowledge for advanced primary mental health practice with a community focus. Students will plan care based on integrative assessments and incorporating holistic strategies with an emphasis on urban and underserved communities. A capstone project reflecting a synthesis of integrative nursing knowledge for advanced practice will be conducted and presented.
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