Health Assessment: Community & Mental Health
Overview
Health assessment and nursing skills in community and mental health settings:
- Comprehensive assessment
- Focused systems assessment
- Screening for vulnerabilities and resilience
- Therapeutic communication and relationships
- Setting up an interview
- Collaborative partners
- Professional image
- Advocacy and social justice
- Care planning/nursing process
- Client and family teaching
- Personal safety and risk assessment
- Limit setting and professional boundaries
- Cultural safety, humility, and anti-racist practices
- Stigma
- Harm reduction
- Indicators of intimate partner violence
- Indicators of human trafficking
Nursing skills in mental health settings:
- Crisis planning
- Non-violent crisis intervention
- Recovery model
- Pharmacological considerations
- Mental status exam
- Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (CIWA)
- Intoxication and withdrawal states
- Assessing for movement disorders
- Safety planning and suicide precautions
Nursing skills in community health settings:
- Motivational interviewing
- HEADSS assessment
- Community assessment
- Reporting communicable diseases
- Immunization principles
- Health promotion
- Sexually transmitted infection
- Informed consent and mature minor consent
- Nutrition across the lifespan
Faculty will facilitate the student's integration of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgment through learning activities such as lectures, demonstrations, return demonstrations, case studies, simulations, and group discussions.
This is a graded course, and the means of assessment are consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the evaluative components of the course.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and abilities required for holistic, comprehensive and focused assessment of clients in community and mental health settings;
- Apply theoretical knowledge and frameworks to relevant relational, communication, and psychomotor skills used in community and mental health nursing practice;
- Integrate theory during simulated nursing practice experiences;
- Refine nursing practice skills, including critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and judgment.
The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the required textbooks and materials that students must purchase.
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for NURS 3412 | |
|---|---|---|
| There are no applicable transfer credits for this course. | ||
Course Offerings
Winter 2025
| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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CRN
14777
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Tue | Instructor last name
Gatcho
Instructor first name
Sheila
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Course status
Open
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| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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CRN
14778
|
Tue | Instructor last name
Kang
Instructor first name
Manshinder
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Course status
Open
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| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
CRN
14779
|
Tue | Instructor last name
Kang
Instructor first name
Manshinder
|
Course status
Open
|
| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
CRN
14780
|
Tue | Instructor last name
Gatcho
Instructor first name
Sheila
|
Course status
Open
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