Overview
Description
Advanced psychiatric nursing care of children and adolescents: including assessment, diagnosis, health promotion/management, and evaluation.
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- utilize health promotion and disease prevention frameworks in planning care for children and adolescents in psychiatric and mental health settings.
- modify interviewing and assessment frameworks for children and adolescents in psychiatric-mental health settings.
- construct a psychiatric formulation for a child or adolescent based on symptoms; psychiatric and medical history; genetic factors; family dynamics; social and developmental achievements; MSE; coping abilities, and differential diagnoses.
- identify advanced psychiatric nursing and bio-psychosocial theories to diagnose children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders.
- identify psychopharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in the management of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents using contemporary research of best evidence.
- analyze initiatives of social justice that enhance access, quality, ethical practice, and cultural competence in mental health care for children and adolescents.
- identify strategies for advocacy in the needs of the specialized and vulnerable populations of mentally ill children and adolescents.
- evaluate outcomes of care related to quality and safety in diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents.