Practicum/Preceptorship: Minimum 360 hours /15 weeks
In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities. Learning activities occur in classrooms and psychiatric nursing practice settings. Psychiatric nursing practice experience provides students with opportunities to apply knowledge and use skills related to psychiatric nursing within a holistic context. Critical reflection through journal writing and practice appraisal will allow exploration and integration of psychiatric nursing concepts, issues, and trends impacting the profession of psychiatric nursing.
- Department of Psychiatric Nursing Conceptual Framework and Philosophy
- Psychiatric Nursing care of clients with episodic, ongoing, and complex challenges
- Psychiatric Nursing role and responsibilities, including leadership roles
- Psychiatric Nursing Scope of Practice related to knowledge and skills
- Psychiatric Nurse- Client therapeutic relationship
- Entry Level Competencies with supervision from preceptor
- Nursing Process including:
- Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Professional Standards, Code of Ethics and Practice Standards
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will:
- Apply the Douglas College Department of Psychiatric Nursing Conceptual Framework to psychiatric nursing practice;
- Demonstrate clinical judgement in the application of knowledge to psychiatric nursing practice;
- Demonstrate integration of theoretical concepts and psychiatric nursing skills;
- Apply nursing research to psychiatric nursing practice;
- Demonstrate the use of resources in the delivery of psychiatric nursing services;
- Analyze the role of a psychiatric nurse;
- Demonstrate use of foundational and advanced therapeutic communications skills;
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of clinical practice skills;
- Develop, implement, and evaluate health promotion;
- Self evaluate clinical practice performance;
- Demonstrate Clinical Practice Competencies with minimal supervision from preceptor. Specific competency areas that will be addressed are:
- Therapeutic Relationships and Therapeutic Use of Self
- Body of Knowledge and Application
- Collaborative Practice
- Advocacy
- Quality Care and Client Safety
- Health Promotion
- Ethical, Professional and Legal Responsibilities;
- Demonstrate leadership and interprofessional collaboration as it relates to healthcare;
- Demonstrate culturally safe and anti-racist care as it relates to the diversity of individual lived experiences, and the physicial, mental/emotional, spiritual, and cultural client needs;
- Synthesize and apply prior learning, and learning from concurrent semester courses, in psychiatric nursing practice.
Assessment is consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course.
This is a mastery course.
A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.
PNUR 4501 and PNUR 4521 and PNUR 4562 and 4572 and PNUR 4573
Students in the BSPN program are required to maintain a passing grade of 65% (C+) in all courses in order to progress in the program.
Students must complete all clinical requirements prior to the first day of preceptorship or access to the clinical site may be denied. Clinical requirements are mandated by the Health Authorities and Public Health orders and will be communicated by the program to each student.