Perform comprehensive health histories, physical

Psych

By the end of this course the student will be able to:

1. Perform comprehensive health histories, physical examinations, and psychiatric evaluations.

2. Employ context driven, advanced reasoning to the diagnostic and decision-making process.

3. Develop therapeutic relationships with patients and families and apply the therapeutic process.

4. Interpret primary and secondary data and other information to support care.

5. Demonstrate advanced communication skills and techniques using a variety of modalities with diverse patients.

6. Facilitate difficult conversations and disclosure of sensitive information.

The End-of-Program Outcomes are the following:

1. Integrate nursing and related sciences into delivering care to clients across diverse healthcare settings.

2. Create effective interdisciplinary organizational and systems leadership in the care of the client in diverse healthcare settings.

3. Analyze quality initiatives to improve health outcomes across the continuum of care.

4. Apply practice guidelines to improve practice and health outcomes.

5. Relate information and communication technologies to document and improve health outcomes.

6. Examine the effect of legal, ethical, and regulatory processes on healthcare delivery, practice, and health outcomes.

7. Employ collaborative interprofessional strategies for improving client and population health outcomes.

8. Evaluate the effectiveness of clinical prevention interventions that affect individual and population-based health outcomes, perform risk assessments, and design plans or programs of care.

9. Relate illness and disease management knowledge to providing evidence-based care to clients, communities, and vulnerable populations in an evolving healthcare delivery system