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 (3 Credit Hours)
  Prerequisite: (None)
This course presents a variety of methods to interact more effectively with clients, families, and professional colleagues. The course focuses on communication strategies and principles that enable nursing students to interact with clients in different clinical settings. The psychosocial aspect of illness and health will also be addressed. The student will also learn principles of critical thinking and professionalism in nursing, and will be introduced to the career of nursing and its major concepts.
2nd year
  
      (3 Credit Hours 2 theory & 1 lab)
  Prerequisite: (0701202)
 This course is designed for the beginner student in mental health psychiatric nursing. The course is based on a belief in the value of humanistic and holistic approach to nursing care. The nursing process is used as an organizing framework. It provides student with concepts, theories and principles that will illuminate his/her clinical experience. Each concept represents a major coping pattern along the mental health-mental illness continuum is addressed through its relation to the anxiety continuum, theoretical bases, its manifestation with the five dimensions of the person, related nursing diagnosis, psychiatric diagnosis, and nursing care plans.
3rd year
  
    (3 Credit Hours)
  Prerequisite: (0701303) or CO.
This course is designed to help the student nurse to explore and gain insight into the problems experienced by the mentally ill person; and the emotional, intellectual social, and spiritual strains that physical illness causes.
The student is expected to: integrate knowledge base from the mental health psychiatric nursing theory course; utilize the nursing process within the therapeutic nurse client relationship with the emphasis on the humanistic holistic approach; and develop an open communication with health care providers team to facilitate the client's healing process in a structured environment.
3rd year
  
      (3 Credit Hours)
  Prerequisite: (None)
This course is designed to introduce students to the theories, issues, techniques of health education, teaching skills, and methods in health promotion to clients, families and community.  The course is planned to facilitate integration, application and evaluation of specific information regarding to health promotion theory, research and practice. Emphasis would be on preventive aspect of health as well as client education in health and illness.  Students will have the opportunity to apply course material to design and implement client education programs to clients with common health problem.