KAYLA PLAZA
Mental Health Nursing
NUR2488LL
Community
Based Clinical
Packet
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
,The graduate of Rasmussen College – School of Nursing will:
1. Apply safe, evidence-based, holistic, competent approaches to care for
diverse populations.
2. Model nursing knowledge, skills and professional attitudes in order to
provide safe, quality care for clients, families and communities across the life
span.
3. Integrate informatics, current evidence-based practice and appropriate
data when communicating and collaborating with an interdisciplinary
health care team.
4. Exemplify the role of the professional nurse inclusive of caring for self, life-
long learning, and professional accountability.
5. Demonstrate organizational, leadership, and management knowledge and
skills to assign and delegate safe, competent and quality care.
6. Select appropriate patient educational techniques, in conjunction with client
collaboration, to promote health and wellness in clients in a variety of
healthcare settings.
7. Practice professional nursing within the ethical, legal and regulatory
framework of the profession.
8. Utilize clinical judgment and critical reasoning to make effective
and comprehensive nursing care decisions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Below are categories that form the foundation for meeting the Student Learning Outcomes of
the Rasmussen College School of Nursing:
1. PATIENT CENTERED CARE:
Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing
compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values,
and needs.
2. TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION:
Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open
communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient
care.
, 3. SAFETY:
Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness
and individual performance
4. QUALITY IMPROVEMENT:
Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to
design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care
systems.
5. INFORMATICS:
Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error,
and support decision making.
6. PROFESSIONALISM:
Professionalism in nursing is the embodiment of the art and science of nursing.
Professionalism is a process of self-transformation, which includes integrity, intellectual
awareness and commitment to the well-being of the client.
7. EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE:
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences
and values for delivery of optimal health care. “Research refers to a systematic
approach to creating new knowledge or refining current knowledge by using rigorous
data collection and testing conditions.”(Alfaro-LeFevre, R., 2013)
COURSE PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES:
The student will:
1. Debate ethical and legal implications related to the care of patient with psychiatric
or behavioral disorders, while using historical perspectives that have influenced
mental- health nursing and care as part of the defense of your position.
2. Devise a plan which includes strategies and resources based on evidence-based
mental- health treatment modalities, inclusive of pharmacotherapeutics,
complementary, and promotion, and motivational wellness concepts incorporating
patient-centered care, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
3. Compare personal and professional identity in terms of caring for, developing an
individualized plan of care, and utilizing clinical judgment, when confronted with
a person undergoing a maladaptive behavior related to addiction.
4. Simulate principles of culturally sensitive, caring, therapeutic relationships with
patients and families experiencing psychiatric or behavioral disorders in order to
identify and improve nursing skills related to identifying and interpreting verbal/non-
verbal communication cues throughout therapeutic communications.
Mental Health Nursing
NUR2488LL
Community
Based Clinical
Packet
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
,The graduate of Rasmussen College – School of Nursing will:
1. Apply safe, evidence-based, holistic, competent approaches to care for
diverse populations.
2. Model nursing knowledge, skills and professional attitudes in order to
provide safe, quality care for clients, families and communities across the life
span.
3. Integrate informatics, current evidence-based practice and appropriate
data when communicating and collaborating with an interdisciplinary
health care team.
4. Exemplify the role of the professional nurse inclusive of caring for self, life-
long learning, and professional accountability.
5. Demonstrate organizational, leadership, and management knowledge and
skills to assign and delegate safe, competent and quality care.
6. Select appropriate patient educational techniques, in conjunction with client
collaboration, to promote health and wellness in clients in a variety of
healthcare settings.
7. Practice professional nursing within the ethical, legal and regulatory
framework of the profession.
8. Utilize clinical judgment and critical reasoning to make effective
and comprehensive nursing care decisions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Below are categories that form the foundation for meeting the Student Learning Outcomes of
the Rasmussen College School of Nursing:
1. PATIENT CENTERED CARE:
Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing
compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values,
and needs.
2. TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION:
Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open
communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient
care.
, 3. SAFETY:
Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness
and individual performance
4. QUALITY IMPROVEMENT:
Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to
design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care
systems.
5. INFORMATICS:
Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error,
and support decision making.
6. PROFESSIONALISM:
Professionalism in nursing is the embodiment of the art and science of nursing.
Professionalism is a process of self-transformation, which includes integrity, intellectual
awareness and commitment to the well-being of the client.
7. EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE:
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences
and values for delivery of optimal health care. “Research refers to a systematic
approach to creating new knowledge or refining current knowledge by using rigorous
data collection and testing conditions.”(Alfaro-LeFevre, R., 2013)
COURSE PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES:
The student will:
1. Debate ethical and legal implications related to the care of patient with psychiatric
or behavioral disorders, while using historical perspectives that have influenced
mental- health nursing and care as part of the defense of your position.
2. Devise a plan which includes strategies and resources based on evidence-based
mental- health treatment modalities, inclusive of pharmacotherapeutics,
complementary, and promotion, and motivational wellness concepts incorporating
patient-centered care, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
3. Compare personal and professional identity in terms of caring for, developing an
individualized plan of care, and utilizing clinical judgment, when confronted with
a person undergoing a maladaptive behavior related to addiction.
4. Simulate principles of culturally sensitive, caring, therapeutic relationships with
patients and families experiencing psychiatric or behavioral disorders in order to
identify and improve nursing skills related to identifying and interpreting verbal/non-
verbal communication cues throughout therapeutic communications.
