NSG5215

Foundations of psychiatric nursing

Encompasses the nature of mental health and illness; the nursing process in psychiatric nursing; roles and functions of psychiatric/mental health nurses; contexts of care; psychiatric disorders; therapeutic interventions in psychiatric nursing; special populations; ethical and legal issues; transcultural psychiatry; specialisation in psychiatric/mental health nursing(via distance education requiring access to a computer and modem or on campus at Peninsula).

Back to the 1999 Distance Education Handbook