Student learning is facilitated through a variety of teaching/learning methods including lecture, demonstration, audio-visual aids, group discussion, group and/or individual research and presentations and experiential learning as a group member with the intent of strengthening group skills and team building.
In this course, within the context of the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½Psychiatric Nursing’s philosophy and conceptual framework, students will focus on developing the psychiatric nursing role as a team member.
Specific concepts that will be addressed are:
- Organizing strong, productive groups
- motivational interviewing
- commitment to planning
- forming a new group
- Team Building
- group building activities
- intergroup collaboration
- Managing and developing strong groups
- getting started with a new group
- setting clear, challenging and attainable goals
- encouraging teamwork and sharing of leadership
- facilitating members awareness of their personal contributions to group success
- organizational structures needed to support strong teams
- Making meetings effective
- conflict resolution
- negotiation
- mediation
- techniques to improve meetings and help difficult discussions
- observer reports and process evaluations
- Therapeutic communication will be enhanced through:
- understanding and demonstrating the phases of the nurse-client relationship.
- understanding and demonstration of therapeutic communication with client as individual, family and group.
- understanding and demonstration of assertive and responsible communication.
- understanding and demonstration of effective communication with colleagues; requesting and receiving colleague support.
- demonstration of understanding of theory and concepts through simulated clinical examples.
- understanding of cultural competence and the issues of professional documentation and sharing of client information for the client as individual and family.
In this course students will use the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½Department of Psychiatric Nursing Curricular Threads (wellness-illness continuum, professional values, professional caring & health care delivery system), and in the context of the environmental, health and psychiatric nursing domains, will develop strong productive group/team skills and awareness. They will know how to develop, manage and evaluate teamwork and collegial relationships.
The course evaluation is consistent with ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½evaluation policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course.
This is a graded course.
A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.