1.Review signs and symptoms and associated nursing diagnoses for select mental disorders.

2.Discuss opportunities and barriers to mental health assessment and intervention in non-psychiatric settings.

3.Identify evidence-based interventions for acute, maintenance, and recovery phases of mental illness.

4.Articulate the impact of social, cultural, political, ethical, and environmental determinants on individual and mental health.

5.What is the role of the mental health nurse? And how does it relate to the role of nursing in general?How does it relate to the role of the nurse in acute-care settings?

6.How does Peplau’s Interpersonal Theory work as a foundation for psychiatric/mental health nursing care?

7.What is the history and significance of psychiatric mental health nursing?

8.What are the following key concepts in mental health nursing: milieu therapy, crisis intervention & use of “pharmacological, biological and complementary interventions”?