FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOSOCIAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Introduces psychosocial and behavioral health across the lifespan with an emphasis on ethical practice, accountability, collaborative roles, and advocating for safe equitable environments in healthcare delivery. Assess mental health needs and identify how stress, coping, and emotions influence physiological functioning. Prioritize nursing interventions for mental illness and substance abuse disorders using trauma-informed care.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: NURSING 314 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Assess psychosocial and behavioral health needs across the lifespan, by identifying actual or potential problems, prioritizing care, engaging individuals and families and using a participatory approach. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the relationships among stress, coping, and emotional states, their influences on health, illness, and behavior, and their importance for addressing psychosocial health needs across the lifespan. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Integrate principles of trauma-informed care in diverse care delivery settings Audience: Undergraduate 4. Promote safe environments through workplace violence prevention and response. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate understanding of unique threats to individual autonomy in mental health treatment settings and recognize the nurse’s responsibility to engage in ethical practice. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recognize the nurse’s collaborative role in advocating for equitable approaches to care in vulnerable populations. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Assess psychosocial and behavioral health needs across the lifespan, by identifying actual or potential problems, prioritizing care, engaging individuals and families and using a participatory approach. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the relationships among stress, coping, and emotional states, their influences on health, illness, and behavior, and their importance for addressing psychosocial health needs across the lifespan. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Integrate principles of trauma-informed care in diverse care delivery settings Audience: Undergraduate 4. Promote safe environments through workplace violence prevention and response. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate understanding of unique threats to individual autonomy in mental health treatment settings and recognize the nurse’s responsibility to engage in ethical practice. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recognize the nurse’s collaborative role in advocating for equitable approaches to care in vulnerable populations. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027