Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
Competencies
1. Identified learning goals and addressed them in a psychiatric nursing setting.
2. Considered the client’s culture, beliefs, and developmental stage when assessing the clients with psychiatric disorders and incorporated them into the diagnosing, planning and implementing of nursing care. Including awareness of special populations such as, children, developmentally impaired, and elderly people.
3. Developed a mastery of therapeutic communication skills. Including an understanding of resistance, transference, countertransference, genuineness, respect, empathic understanding, confrontation, immediacy,
nurse self-disclosure, emotional catharsis, and role-playing.
4. Practiced in an ethical and professional manner in accordance with the ANA Standards of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Practice, Nursing Ethics, and all applicable laws. Including an awareness of appropriate
boundaries.
5. Developed an understanding of the impact of political, professional and economic issues on the experience and treatment of mental illness.
6. Effectively used technology in advancing one's own learning objectives and in delivering nursing care in a psychiatric setting.
7. Applied the nursing process to a client with a psychiatric disorder.
8. Provided nursing care to psychiatric clients in a safe, clinically appropriate, evidenced based, and effective manner.
9. Demonstrated growing self-awareness.
Evidence Based Practice2. Considered the client’s culture, beliefs, and developmental stage when assessing the clients with psychiatric disorders and incorporated them into the diagnosing, planning and implementing of nursing care. Including awareness of special populations such as, children, developmentally impaired, and elderly people.
3. Developed a mastery of therapeutic communication skills. Including an understanding of resistance, transference, countertransference, genuineness, respect, empathic understanding, confrontation, immediacy,
nurse self-disclosure, emotional catharsis, and role-playing.
4. Practiced in an ethical and professional manner in accordance with the ANA Standards of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Practice, Nursing Ethics, and all applicable laws. Including an awareness of appropriate
boundaries.
5. Developed an understanding of the impact of political, professional and economic issues on the experience and treatment of mental illness.
6. Effectively used technology in advancing one's own learning objectives and in delivering nursing care in a psychiatric setting.
7. Applied the nursing process to a client with a psychiatric disorder.
8. Provided nursing care to psychiatric clients in a safe, clinically appropriate, evidenced based, and effective manner.
9. Demonstrated growing self-awareness.
Applied therapeutic communication skills during 1:1 with patients
Developed Age-appropriate Psycho-educational Group Proposal
Performed Bio-psychosocial Assessment
Participated as member of multidisciplinary team to provide care for clients in a variety of settings
Patient TeachingDeveloped Age-appropriate Psycho-educational Group Proposal
Performed Bio-psychosocial Assessment
Participated as member of multidisciplinary team to provide care for clients in a variety of settings
Reinforced coping skills with mentally ill patients
Participated in meeting regarding self care and hygiene skills
Supplied patients with outside resources when discharged
Personal ReflectionParticipated in meeting regarding self care and hygiene skills
Supplied patients with outside resources when discharged
This course has improved my communication with patients therapeutically. As well as assist in my development of an understanding of issues that are ethical, political, professional, and economic when dealing with the mentally ill population. Most of all, I have grown to be more aware of myself so I can perform more efficient care for my patients.
