Diagnostic Reasoning for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Part I)

2 credits · School of Nursing

This didactic course provides the theoretical content and clinical practice guidelines for assessing, diagnosing, and intervening in dysfunctional coping patterns and psychiatric disorders of individuals across the lifespan. The DSM-5 (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) will be used as the basis for diagnostic nomenclature across the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on the assessment, diagnosis, and evidence-based non-pharmacological treatment of mental health disorders. Pre/Corequisite: 6011 or 6013, 7212. Corequisite: 7235. [2]