Health Assessment: Community & Mental Health
Curriculum guideline
Lab: 3 hours/week
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.
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
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.
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.
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.