Unit I. Introduction to psychiatric nursing. Introduction to psychiatric nursing -- Psychotherapeutic management in the continuum of care -- Models for working with psychiatric patients -- Legal issues -- Psychobiologic bases of behavior -- Unit II. Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. Nurse-patient communication -- Nurse-patient relationship -- Nursing process -- Stress, anxiety, coping, and crisis -- Suicide and other self destructive behaviors -- Working with the aggressive patient -- Working with groups of patients -- Working with the family -- Cultural competence in psychiatric nursing -- Spirituality -- Unit III. Psychopharmacology. Introduction to psychotropic drugs -- Antiparkinsonian drugs -- Antipsychotic drugs -- Antidepressant drugs -- Antimanic drugs -- Antianxiety drugs -- Antidementia drugs -- Unit IV. Milieu management. Introduction to milieu management -- Variables affecting the therapeutic environment -- Therapeutic environment in various treatment settings -- Unit V. Psychopathology. Introduction to psychopathology -- Schizophrenia and other psychoses -- Depression -- Bipolar disorders -- Anxiety-related, somatoform, and dissociative disorders -- Cognitive disorders -- Personality disorders -- Sexual disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Dual diagnosis -- Eating disorders -- Unit VI. Special populations and therapies in psychiatric nursing. Behavior and somatic therapies -- Nutraceuticals and mental health -- Survivors of violence and trauma -- Child and adolescent psychiatric nursing -- Mental disorders of older adults -- War-related psychiatric disorders in soldiers -- Appendix : Diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, text revision (DSM-IV-TR).
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