Course Description: Issues and trends in the nursing care of individuals with mental health – psychiatric nursing
Credit: 3 units lecture =54 hours
Placement: Graduate Students Professional Responsibilities
Requirements: Develop Knowledge, attitudes/values and skills (KAVS)
1. Individual reporting by applying the appropriate nursing interventions/
2. Submission of report management of patient with psychiatric disorders
3. Submission of test exercise
Mode of Evaluation:
Written Report
Oral Report
Midterm Test
Final Test
General Objectives:
1. Utilize concepts of mental health for their own personal and professional development
2. Identify the psychopathological disorder in providing safe and quality nursing care
3. Render appropriate nursing interventions in the different psychiatric disorders
4. Participates in the class discussions to enhance knowledge in dealing a psychiatric disorders
5. Develop desirable attitudes towards psychiatric patient and their family members
Unit I
Mental Health – Mental Illness
At the end of the
topic the students
is expected to:
1. Define 1. Define Basic Group
concepts of Mental Health concept of participation
mental Mental Illness Psychiatric Submission
Group dynamics by
health/mental Mental Health of Critical
sharing personal
illness Nursing, Shives, Thinking/Provoki
experiences in terms 5 hours th
Louise, 7 ng Questions to
of :
edition, 2008 those who have
a. Home
practices/rearing not called during
Psychiatric
b. Cultural the class
Mental Health
beliefs/practices of participation
2. Describe 2. Characteristics of Mental Health Nursing,
the family Videbeck, Sheila,
characteristics and Mental Illness
c. Actual 4th edition, 2008
of mental
experiences
health – mental
towards psychiatric Psychiatric
illness
3. Discuss 3. Factors Influencing a person’s patients (recall Nursing: Student
of mental abilities of
b. When you
think of mental
illness, what
images or Ideas
come into your
mind? Where do
these ideas came
from – movies,
television,
personal
experience?
c. What
characteristic do
you have that
indicate good
mental health?
UNIT II
CHILDHOOD DISORDER
At the end of the 8 hours
topic the students
id expected to:
1. Discuss the 1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Individual Psychiatric Submission
characteristic, Disorder Reporting (Conceptual Mental Health of answers of the
risk, factors and 2. Conduct Disorders Approach) Nursing, critical thinking
family diagnosis 3. Tourette’s Syndrome Interactive Lecture Videbeck, Sheila, questions
of psychiatric 4. Autism Hand-out 4th edition, 2008 Evaluation of
disorders of 5. Mental Retardation distribution prior to t he the reports
Psychiatric
childhood report
Nursing: at
2. Apply the Power point
textbook and a
nursing process presentation
reviewer, Sia,
to the care of
Asking questions to
Maria Loreto,
children with
develop critical
2004 Edition
psychiatric thinking/provoking Review and
disorders questions to facilitate Rationales
3. Provide class participation: Series for
education to a. As your age now, Nursing Mental
the clients, what are the family Health, Hogan,
families, beliefs, attitudes and Mary Ann &
caregivers and values in terms of George Byron
community family rearing and Smith, 2005
members for practices Edition.
young clients b. As a professional
with psychiatric nurse, how would you
disorders promote an prevent
4. Develop these childhood
desirable disorders while the
attitudes in the mother is pregnant
care of what would you teach
childhood her?
disorders
UNIT III
ADOLESCENCE DISORDERS
(EATING DISORDERS)
At the end of the 1. Types Individual 6 hours Psychiatric Submission
topic, the a. BULIMIA NERVOSA “The Reporting (Conceptual Mental Health of answers
students is Diet – Binge – Purge Disorder” Approach) Nursing, Evaluation of
expected to: b. Anorexia Nervosa “The Videbeck, reports
1. Compare Relentless Pursuit of Thinness” Interactive Lecture Sheila, 4th Class
and contrast the 2. Clinical Manifestations (S/S) edition, 2008 participation
Hand-out
signs and 3. Etiology pp. 403-420
distribution prior to t he
symptoms of 4. Nursing Interventions/Medical
report Psychiatric
anorexia nervosa Tx
Nursing: at
and bulimia Power point
textbook and a
nervosa presentation
reviewer, Sia,
2. Discuss
Asking questions to Maria Loreto,
various etiologic
develop critical 2004 Edition
theories of
thinking/provoking pp. 67-76
eating disorders
3. Identify questions:
Psychiatric
effective a. You noticed a
Nursing
treatment for friend or family
(Student Guide)
clients with member has been
Cacanindin,
eating disorders losing weight, has
Eden Esmas,
4. Apply the strange eating rituals
2002 Edition,
nursing process and constantly takes
pp 108-110
to the care of the about diet. You suspect