Emergency Nursing And Mental Health

This practice-based course has been developed for nurses caring for patients experiencing mental health challenges or patients experiencing physical illness/injury with a concomitant mental health component.

This course is suitable for all nurses working in rural, community, or tertiary hospital emergency departments as well as community settings. The following information provides a brief description of our course.

Prerequisite(s)

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Domestic Fees

$944.28

Learning Outcomes

As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses.

In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Participants will utilize a mental health framework for the assessment of patients experiencing mental health challenges.
• Participants will demonstrate safe care for patients with a variety of mental health challenges.
• Participants will describe the effects of anti-psychotic, anti-depressant, and anti-manic medications.
• Participants will critically analyze the impact of mental health challenges on patients and their families.
• Participants will describe the ways in which mental health discourse impacts patients and the health care they receive.
• Participants will describe current theories explaining mental health challenges.
• Participants will reflect in writing about current practices in the care of people experiencing mental health challenges.