Course image Critical Care Nursing
Psychiatric and mental health nursing

This course is designed to increase the students' level of understanding and orientation toward critical care nursing-related issues. Throughout this course, the students can present critically care patients with reasonable nursing care when the nursing process is applied and the students' role as care providers is performed.

Course image Health Psychology for Nurses
Psychiatric and mental health nursing

Course Description Form

1.   Course Name:

Psychiatric and mental health- four stage/ First Semester.

2.   Course Code:

WNR-42-03

3.   Semester / Year:

four stage/ First Semester

4.   Description Preparation Date:

2024-9-14

5.     Available Attendance Forms:

Full time

 

6.     Number of Credit Hours (Total) / Number of Units (Total)

2hours per week/ Total (30) hours per 15 Week.

 

7.   Course administrator's name (mention all, if more than one name)

Name: Hadeel sahib ali

Email: hadeel saheeb@uowa.edu.iq

 

8.   Course Objectives

At the end of this course the students will able to:

Identify basic needs age-related needs and concerns.

 

Identify communication techniques for dealing with children, adolescents and the elderly.

 

Use the nursing process to deal with health problems.

 

Focus on the preventive aspects of mental health care.

the students will able to:

1. Identify introduction of health psychology

2.Identify Stress and stress management

3.Identify The Emotions

4.Identify   memory and forgetting.

5.Identify the Motivations.

6. Identify thinking

7. Identify personality

8. Identify Psychology and
9.Attention and Perception

9.   Teaching and Learning Strategies

Strategy:

1. Lectures

2. Group Discussion

4. Brain storming.

 

 

 

 

10.   Course Structure

Week: 15 week

Hours: 2 hours peer week 

Unit or subject name: health psychology

Learning method:

Methods of teaching (theory)

Lecture

Discussion

Daily and monthly theoretical exams.

Class activities

Evaluation method:

- Quizzes.

-mid-term

-Final-term.

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.    Course Evaluation

Distributing the score out of 100 according to the tasks assigned to the student such as daily preparation, daily oral, monthly, or written exams, reports .... etc

12.    Learning and Teaching Resources

l-Shives, Louise Rebraca; Basic Concepts of Psvchiatric-Mental Health

 

Nursing,6th Edition

2-Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2fi)5

3-Sadock, Benjamin James; Sadock, Virginia Alcott: Kaplan &

Sadock's S1'nopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical

Psychiatry, l0th Edition.

4- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2007

5-Frank J. Bruno; Psychologl' A Self-Teaching Guide 2002u1-

6-Huffman, Karenl Psvchologl.in action, Tth ed., John Wilcr,& Sons,

Inc,2004

List of contents:

Week number

Lecture title

Expected Date/

1.

introduction of health psychology

9/17

2.

Identify Stress and stress management

9/24

3.

 The Emotions

10/1

4.

Memory and forgetting

10/8

5.

Motivations.

10/15

 

Mid term

10/22

6.

Thinking

10/29

7.

Personality

11/5

8.

 Psychology Attention and Perception                           

11/12

9.

Mid term

11/19

10.

Neurobiological  Theories

11/26

11.

Psychopharmacology

12/3

 

Signature ……………………….  Date………………………….

Head of department signature …………………………………………