60 hours/semester
In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities such as discussions, group work, case studies, reading assignments, and remote/virtual meetings.
- Psychiatric Nursing Conceptual Framework
- Psychiatric Nursing Variable Assessment Guide
- Nursing knowledge, metaparadigms, concepts, theories, models, and frameworks
- History and evolution of psychiatric nursing
- Professionalization and professional self-concept in psychiatric nursing practice
- Canadian healthcare delivery system and Canadian mental healthcare
- Leadership in profesional psychiatric nursing practice
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Analyze selected nursing theories and concepts;
- Identify and apply components of theory and concepts that are applicable to psychiatric nursing practice;
- Analyze the psychiatric nursing professional role in relation to other disciplines providing mental health services;
- Examine the role of nursing theory in the development of professional identity;
- Apply the Psychiatric Nursing Conceptual Framework to psychiatric nursing practice;
- Discuss and integrate research and/or theoretical perspectives to psychiatric nursing concepts and practice.
The course evaluation is consistent with the °µÍø51 Evaluation policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course in the Instructor Course Outline. This is a graded course.
Textbooks and materials are to be purchased by students. A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of the semester.
Admission into:
LPN Access to Psychiatric Nursing Degree Program or
Psychiatric Nursing Degree Completion Program
None
PNUR 3702, 3704, 3705, 3707, 3708, 3710, 3720, 3722 and 3730