Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Practice V

Graduate / Professional

This is the fifth course in a series of five courses that aim to develop the clinical and leadership skills required for advanced psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Emphasis will be placed on incorporating emerging evidence and innovation into clinical decision making, ordering and documenting diagnostic and screening tests, evaluating care outcomes, and adjusting the plan of care with the interprofessional team. Students are expected to foster community partnerships, participate in system level change initiatives, determine population priorities for care, and design policy to impact health equity. Students will expand their leadership skills by engaging in professional organization and professional service opportunities. In their clinical setting, students will collaboratively provide care for individuals, groups and families for complex presentations (>2 diagnoses) involving multiple systems engagement. Students are assigned to psychiatric clinical placements on the basis of competency development, previous clinical experiences, and interests. Students will use the clinical case conference format to integrate and apply clinical skills. Clinical case conference meets 1 hours per week with PMHNP faculty. Clinical practicum is a requisite 210 clinical hours for this course. Successful completion of N7785O, N7786O, and N7795O, and N7796O. 5 Course cr HTBA