Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Practice III

Graduate / Professional

This is the third practicum in a series of five practicums that aim to develop the clinical and leadership skills required for advanced psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Building on first year clinical skills, emphasis is placed on advancing clinical reasoning and decision making, beginning use of pharmacologic interventions and safe prescribing practices, performing and documenting comprehensive mental health assessments, guiding care coordination, and counseling patients, groups, and families on health promotion and disease prevention. Students continue to build systems-level thinking by analyzing population data against benchmarks, managing team interactions, and evaluating quality and safety in the practice environment. Students analyze the impact of structural and cultural factors on individual and population level care delivery and develop lifelong learning strategies. Students are assigned to psychiatric clinical placements on the basis of competency development, previous clinical experiences, and interests. Students use the clinical case conference format to integrate and apply clinical skills. Clinical case conference meets one hour per week with PMHNP faculty. Clinical practicum is a requisite 127.5 clinical hours for this course. Prerequisites: NURS 7785O and NURS 7786O . 3½ Course cr HTBA