This course addresses clinical reasoning and clinical judgment the nurse practices when promoting, maintaining, and restoring the optimum functioning of clients with neuropsychiatric disorders. It builds on concepts of the nursing process, behavior change, relationship development, and therapeutic communication skills learned in prior nursing courses. Emphasis is placed upon concepts including, but not limited to, emotions, stress, coping, addiction, violence, suicide, and safety. This course contains clinicals with didactics.
Corequisites
NU 331 Adult Nursing I