Course Title: Mental heath – psychiatric nursing interventions

Course Description: Issues and trends in the nursing care of individuals with mental health – psychiatric nursing
Credit: 3 units lecture =54 hours
Placement: Graduate Students Professional Responsibilities
Requirements: Develop Knowledge, attitudes/values and skills (KAVS)
1. Individual reporting by applying the appropriate nursing interventions/
2. Submission of report management of patient with psychiatric disorders
3. Submission of test exercise
Mode of Evaluation:
Written Report
Oral Report
Midterm Test
Final Test
General Objectives:
1. Utilize concepts of mental health for their own personal and professional development
2. Identify the psychopathological disorder in providing safe and quality nursing care
3. Render appropriate nursing interventions in the different psychiatric disorders
4. Participates in the class discussions to enhance knowledge in dealing a psychiatric disorders
5. Develop desirable attitudes towards psychiatric patient and their family members

Specific Content Teaching-Learning T/A Resources Evaluation

 Time
Objectives Activities Allotme
nt
At the beginning of
the semester the
student will be
given orientation
of the following:
 CSC Philosophy, Vision, Mission,  Discuss the CSC 30  Wall chart
1. CSC Philosophy,
Goals and Objectives Philosophy, Vision, Minutes  Bulletin of
Vision, Mission,
 Syllabi/ resource unit Mission, Goals and information
Goals and
Objectives  Hand-outs
Objectives
 Interactive
Including the CHS
Participation
Mission Goals and
 Distribution of
Objectives
hand-outs and discuss
Course syllabi: the content of the
Resources, mode syllabi
of Evaluation and  Interactive 30
requirements of Participation minutes
the course  Giving of
assignment (topics0 for
individual reporting

Unit I
Mental Health – Mental Illness
At the end of the
topic the students
is expected to:
1. Define 1. Define  Basic  Group
concepts of  Mental Health concept of participation
mental  Mental Illness Psychiatric  Submission
 Group dynamics by
health/mental Mental Health of Critical
sharing personal
illness Nursing, Shives, Thinking/Provoki
experiences in terms 5 hours th
Louise, 7 ng Questions to
of :
edition, 2008 those who have
a. Home
practices/rearing not called during
 Psychiatric
b. Cultural the class
Mental Health
beliefs/practices of participation
2. Describe 2. Characteristics of Mental Health Nursing,
the family Videbeck, Sheila,
characteristics and Mental Illness
c. Actual 4th edition, 2008
of mental
experiences
health – mental
towards psychiatric  Psychiatric
illness
3. Discuss 3. Factors Influencing a person’s patients (recall Nursing: Student

factors which Mental Health – Mental Illness experiences) Course Book,

influence a. Individual/Personal  Interactive Oman,

mental health – Factors Participation September,

mental illness b. Interpersonal/Relationshi 2004

 Brain-storming
p Factors about facts and myths  Psychiatric
c. Social/Cultural/Environme
 nt Factors of mental health and
4. Describe the 4. Criteria of Mental Health
mental illness  Nursing: at
criteria of a. Positive attitude towards
 Asking questions to textbook and a
mental health self
develop critical reviewer, Sia,
b. Growth, development and
thinking/provoking Maria Loreto,
self-actualization
questions:(random 2004 Edition
c. Integration
questions)
d. Autonomy
a. In your own
e. Reality Perception
words, describe
f. Environmental Mastery
mental health.
g. Cultural Relativism
5. Compare 5. Comparison of Mental Health Describe the

the and Mental Illness characteristics,

characteristics behavior and

of mental abilities of

health – mental someone who is

illness mentally healthy

b. When you
think of mental
illness, what
images or Ideas
come into your
mind? Where do
these ideas came
from – movies,
 television,
personal
experience?

c. What
characteristic do
you have that
indicate good
mental health?
UNIT II
CHILDHOOD DISORDER
At the end of the 8 hours
topic the students
id expected to:
1. Discuss the 1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity  Individual  Psychiatric  Submission
characteristic, Disorder Reporting (Conceptual Mental Health of answers of the
risk, factors and 2. Conduct Disorders Approach) Nursing, critical thinking
family diagnosis 3. Tourette’s Syndrome  Interactive Lecture Videbeck, Sheila, questions
of psychiatric 4. Autism  Hand-out 4th edition, 2008  Evaluation of
disorders of 5. Mental Retardation distribution prior to t he the reports
 Psychiatric
childhood report
Nursing: at
2. Apply the  Power point
textbook and a
nursing process presentation
reviewer, Sia,
to the care of
 Asking questions to
Maria Loreto,
children with
develop critical
2004 Edition
 psychiatric thinking/provoking  Review and
disorders questions to facilitate Rationales
3. Provide class participation: Series for
education to a. As your age now, Nursing Mental
the clients, what are the family Health, Hogan,
families, beliefs, attitudes and Mary Ann &
caregivers and values in terms of George Byron
community family rearing and Smith, 2005
members for practices Edition.
young clients b. As a professional
with psychiatric nurse, how would you
disorders promote an prevent
4. Develop these childhood
desirable disorders while the
attitudes in the mother is pregnant
care of what would you teach
childhood her?
disorders
UNIT III
ADOLESCENCE DISORDERS
(EATING DISORDERS)
At the end of the 1. Types  Individual 6 hours  Psychiatric  Submission
topic, the a. BULIMIA NERVOSA “The Reporting (Conceptual Mental Health of answers
students is Diet – Binge – Purge Disorder” Approach) Nursing,  Evaluation of
expected to: b. Anorexia Nervosa “The Videbeck, reports
1. Compare Relentless Pursuit of Thinness”  Interactive Lecture Sheila, 4th  Class
and contrast the 2. Clinical Manifestations (S/S) edition, 2008 participation
 Hand-out
signs and 3. Etiology pp. 403-420
distribution prior to t he
symptoms of 4. Nursing Interventions/Medical
report  Psychiatric
anorexia nervosa Tx
Nursing: at
and bulimia  Power point
textbook and a
nervosa presentation
reviewer, Sia,
2. Discuss
Asking questions to Maria Loreto,
various etiologic
develop critical 2004 Edition
theories of
thinking/provoking pp. 67-76
eating disorders
3. Identify questions:
 Psychiatric
effective a. You noticed a
Nursing
treatment for friend or family
(Student Guide)
clients with member has been
Cacanindin,
eating disorders losing weight, has
Eden Esmas,
4. Apply the strange eating rituals
2002 Edition,
nursing process and constantly takes
pp 108-110
to the care of the about diet. You suspect

clients with an eating disorders.

eating disorders How would you

approach this person?
b. A client has the
right to refuse the
 treatment. How would
the nurse address the
right when working
with a client with
anorexia who doesn’t
want treatment
UNIT IV
ELDERLY DISORDER
(COGNITIVE DISORDER/DEMENTIA)
At the end of the 1. Types  Individual 7 hours  Psychiatric  Submission
topic, the a. Alzheimer’s Disease Reporting (Conceptual Mental Health of
students are b. Parkinson’s Disease Approach) Nursing, requirement
expected to: 2. Clinical Manifestations  Hand-outs Videbeck,  Evaluation of
1. Describe the 3. Risk Factors Distribution Sheila, 4th reports
characteristic 4. Etiology  Interactive Lecture edition, 2008
and risk factors 5. Nursing Diagnosis  Power point pp. 472-495
for dementia 6. Nursing Interventions presentation
 Psychiatric
2. Distinguish
 Interview family
Nursing: at
between
members in the care of
textbook and a
Alzheimer’s
the elderly family
reviewer, Sia,
Disease and
 Critical thinking Maria Loreto,
Parkinson’s
questions: 2004 Edition
Disease in terms
1. As a nurse,
of symptoms,
what would you
course, nursing
 interventions think are the special
and medical considerations in
treatment dealing an elderly
3. Apply the client? What do you
nursing process think are the
to the care of values/virtues of the
clients with caregiver in taking
dementia care of the elderly?
4. Identify the Why?
methods in 2. Are you
meeting the amenable that
needs of the placing the client in
people who the home for the
provide care to aged reasonable
clients with despite of the close
dementia family ties that the
Filipino Culture had?
If yes, why? If no,
why?
UNIT V
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
At the end of the 1. Types  Individual 8 hours  Psychiatric  Class
topic, the students a.Drug Dependence Reporting Mental Health participation
are expected to: b.Alcoholism  Interactive lecture Nursing,
1. Explain the 2. Characteristics and risk factors  OHP/power point Videbeck, Sheila,
 substance and family dynamics presentation 4th edition, 2008
abuse and 3. Principles of 12-step treatment  Supplemental pp. 337-401
discuss the 4. Nursing process to the care of discussions
 Psychiatric
need for related the clients
Nursing: at
prevention
textbook and a
programs
reviewer, Sia,
2. Discuss the
Maria Loreto,
characteristic,
2004 Edition pp.
risk factors and
361-388
family dynamics
prevalent with
substance
abuse
3. Describe the
principles of a
12-step
treatment
approach for
substance
abuse
UNIT VI
FAMILY VIOLENCE AND RAPE (Women’s and Child Abuse)
At the end of the 1. Definition  Secure statistics in 7 hours  Psychiatric  Submission
topic, the students 2. Types of abuse determining the Mental Health of test
are expected to: 3. Characteristics of abuse incidence of family Nursing,
1. Discuss the a. Abuses violence and rape from Videbeck,
characteristic, b. Abuse person the record of the DSWD, Sheila, 4th
risk factors and 4. Incidence PNP, ETC edition, 2008
family dynamics 5. Psychological symptoms of  Individual reporting pp. 194-210
of abusive and abused person  Interactive Lecture
 Psychiatric
violent 6. Developmental phases of family  Hand-outs
Nursing: at
behaviors 7. Long term effects of family
 Power point textbook and a
2. Examine the violence
presentation/ OHP reviewer, Sia,
incidence of 8. Nursing care plan
Presentation Maria Loreto,
and trends in 9. Myths about rape
 Critical thinking 2004 Edition
domestic 10. Rape trauma syndrome
questions: pp. 304-320
violence, child
a. In spanking a child
and women  Psychiatric
an acceptable form
abuse and rape Nursing
of discipline or it is
3. Apply the (Student Guide)
abusive? What
nursing process Cacanindin,
determines the
to the care of Eden Esmas,
appropriateness of
the clients who 2002 Edition,
discipline? Who
have survive pp 169-173
should make the
abuse and
decisions, why?
violence
b. How can the
4. Provide
nurse continue to
education to
have a positive
clients, families
relationship with the
 and clients to return to
communities to an abusive
promote and relationship? What
prevent and should the nurse say
early to the client who has
interventions of decided to return to
abuse and an abusive
violence relationship?
UNIT VII
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
At the end of the 1. Types  Individual 6 hours  Psychiatric
topic, the students a. Anti-social Reporting Mental Health
are expected to: b. Histrionic  Interactive Lecture Nursing,
1. Describe the c. Schizoid  Supplemental Videbeck, Sheila,
personality d. Paranoid Discussions 4th edition, 2008
disorders, in e. Avoidant  OHP/ Power Point pp. 347-371
terms of the f. Obsessive- Presentation
 Psychiatric
client’s compulsive
 Critical Thinking
Nursing (Student
difficulty in g. Narcissistic
Questions:
Guide)
perceiving, Personality
a. Where do
Cacanindin, Eden
relating to and h. Passive Aggressive
you see yourself in
Esmas, 2002
thinking about 2. Community-Based Care
relation to the four
Edition, pp. 111-
self, others and 3. Mental Health Promotion
types of
112
the
temperament
environment
2. Discuss (harm, avoidance,
factors thought novelty, seeking,
to influence the reward dependence
development of and persistence?
personality b. What has
disorders been the most
3. Apply the significant
nursing process influence on your
to the care of development as a
clients with person?
personality
disorders
4. Provide
education to
client’s, families
and community
members to
increase their
knowledge and
understanding
personality
disorders
UNIT VIII
SEXUAL ABERRATIONS AND SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS
At the end of the 1. Types of Sexual Perversion  Critical  Psychiatric  Submission
topic, the students a. Fetishism Thinking Questions: Nursing: at of requirements
are expected to: b. Transvestic Fetishism a. Seein textbook and a
1. Identi c. Exhibition g of these problems in reviewer, Sia,
fy the types, d. Pedophilia the community where Maria Loreto,
characteristics e. Voyeurism you lived, how do you 2004 Edition pp.
and causes and f. Sadism judge them? How 351-358
incidence of g. Masochism would interview them?
sexual h. Protteurism b. What
aberrations i. Necrophilia do you think are the
2. Rend j. Telophone Scatologia reasons why such
er of nursing k. Transexualism people behave/act this
6 hours
interventions l. Zoophilia way? As a caregiver,
in the care of m. Bestiality how would you explain
sexual 2. Types of Sexual to the community
aberrations Dysfunction regarding the behavior
3. Devel a. Sexual Desire Disorder in order to accept
op positive b. Sexual Aversion Disorder them?
desirable c. Sexual Arousal Disorder
attitudes to a d. Orgasm Disorder
person with e. Premature Ejaculations
sexual f. Sexual Pain Disorders
problems/perve 3. Nursing Issues
rsions