After completing this course you’ll be able to:
1. | Determine the nurse’s role in psychiatric care. |
2. | Identify techniques to enhance communication with patients. |
3. | Describe a variety of therapies used to treat psychiatric disorders. |
4. | List basic components of the psychiatric nursing assessment. |
5. | Explain the ethical and legal issues in psychiatric care. |
6. | Describe the theories of growth and development. |
7. | List the characteristics of mentally healthy young people. |
8. | Identify the signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. |
9. | Discuss treatment options for children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders. |
10. | Discuss the status changes of older adulthood. |
11. | Explain the roles and responsibilities of geropsychiatric nurses. |
12. | Determine the best care settings for older adults with psychiatric disorders. |
13. | Explain diagnosis, treatment, and nursing interventions for older adults with age-related cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s dementia, and vascular dementia. |
14. | Explain the phases and subtypes of schizophrenic disorders. |
15. | Discuss theories on the cause of schizophrenia. |
16. | Discuss the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of schizophrenic patients. |
17. | Perform nursing interventions for schizophrenic patients. |
18. | Discuss the effects of mood disorders on function. |
19. | Explain the proposed causes of mood disorder. |
20. | Determine how to assess a patient’s suicide risk. |
21. | Explain the various types of bipolar and depressive disorders. |
22. | Discuss the assessment and interventions for patients with mood disorders. |
23. | Discuss the positive and negative effects of anxiety. |
24. | Explain how anxiety disorders impair functioning. |
25. | Discuss the proposed causes of anxiety disorders. |
26. | Distinguish acute stress disorder from posttraumatic stress disorder. |
27. | Discuss the assessment and intervention for patients with anxiety. |
28. | Explain how stress can be converted to physical symptoms. |
29. | Distinguish between conversion disorder and factitious disorders. |
30. | Discuss the proposed causes of somatization and somatoform disorders. |
31. | Identify the signs and symptoms of somatoform disorders. |
32. | Discuss the assessment and interventions for patients with somatoform disorders. |
33. | Explain the general characteristics of dissociation. |
34. | Identify the diagnostic tools used to evaluate dissociative disorders. |
35. | Discuss the proposed causes of dissociative disorders. |
36. | Identify the signs and symptoms of dissociative disorders. |
37. | Discuss the assessment and interventions for patients with dissociative disorders. |
38. | List major features of personality disorders. |
39. | Identify the proposed causes of personality disorders. |
40. | Discuss the assessment findings and nursing interventions for patients with personality disorders. |
41. | Determine the recommended treatments for patients with personality disorders. |
42. | List major features of eating disorders. |
43. | Identify the proposed causes of eating disorders. |
44. | Discuss the assessment findings and nursing interventions for patients with eating disorders. |
45. | Determine the recommended treatments for patients with eating disorders. |
46. | List the types of substance abuse disorders. |
47. | List the street names for commonly abused substances. |
48. | Discuss the proposed causes of substance abuse. |
49. | Explain how to assess for substance abuse and dependence. |
50. | Explain nursing interventions for patients experiencing substance withdrawal. |
51. | List the sleep stages and circadian rhythms. |
52. | Identify types of sleep disorders and their causes. |
53. | Discuss the assessment findings in patients with sleep disorders. |
54. | Explain special procedures used to diagnose sleep disorders. |
55. | Explain treatments and nursing interventions for patients with sleep disorders. |
56. | List the stages of sexual development. |
57. | Identify the phases of the sexual response cycle. |
58. | Explain the categories and definitions of sexual disorders. |
59. | Discuss the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of sexual disorders. |
60. | Explain nursing interventions for patients with sexual disorders. |