After completing this course, you’ll be able to communicate effectively with psychiatric patients, make appropriate nursing diagnoses, explain probable etiologies, set long-and short-term goals, and provide interventions with rationales.
Treatment modalities and therapeutic communication
Disorders first evident in infancy, childhood, and adolescence
Delirium, dementia and amnestic disorders
Substance-related disorders, schizophrenia
Mood anxiety, somatoform, dissociative, eating, adjustment and personality disorders
Includes all the new DSM-IV classifications
