NURS629C

036968

This core course focuses on psychiatric disorders, mental health concerns, and health promotion among children and adolescents and provides content necessary for advanced practice and national certification as a family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (FPMHNP).
* Students will learn advanced mental health assessment for children and adolescents.
* Advanced techniques in assessment, differential diagnosis, pharmacological, and therapeutic management of mental health conditions and psychiatric disorders will be applied to the development of patient data bases.
* Emphasis will be placed on bio-psycho-social and cultural mental health assessment and management utilizing appropriate research findings, while emphasizing health promotion, health protection, disease prevention, and treatment
* The clinical practicum portion of the course requires the student to be supervised in assessing children and adolescent patients/clients for their short-term and long-term mental and emotional functioning, and in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of pharmacological and non-pharmacological management

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate

Must be taken concurrently with NURS 629A