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NSC 351 Mental Health & Psychiatric Nursing

300 levelMedical & Health Sciences10 topics

NSC 351 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concepts of mental health and mental illness
  2. Classification of psychiatric disorders
  3. Therapeutic communication and the nurse-patient relationship
  4. The mental status examination
  5. Nursing care of patients with schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
  6. Mood (affective) disorders
  7. Anxiety and neurotic disorders
  8. Substance abuse and dependence
  9. Psychopharmacology and electroconvulsive therapy
  10. Community mental health and rehabilitation

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Concepts of mental health and mental illness

This topic introduces the meaning of mental health and mental illness, the features of a mentally healthy person, and the major ways mental illness is understood in nursing and health care. It is important for examinations because it forms the foundation for recognising normal and abnormal behaviour, reducing stigma, and guiding safe, appropriate psychiatric nursing care.

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