Experience of Mental Health and Illness Across the Lifespan

3 credits · School of Nursing

As part of a didactic series examining the human experience of health and illness from infancy through senescence, this course focuses on acute and chronic presentations of mental illness across the lifespan. Learners will explore genetic and genomic contributing factors, current evidence, and social determinants of health as the foundation for examining mental health promotion, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and nursing management of adaptive and maladaptive processes. Learners will use the nursing process and introductory clinical judgment to identify person-centered priority nursing actions to prevent, manage, or improve problems with mental health. The influence of growth and development, sex, gender, psychosocial, and cultural factors on the mental health of individuals, families, and populations will be discussed. The role of the nurse and the patient in collaborative interprofessional health care delivery and the implications for use of clinical informatics will be discussed. Prerequisites: 5600, 5610, 5615, 5625, 6022, 8212. Corequisites: 5703 and 8214. [3]