NURS 256 Psychological Issues in Healthcare (3 credits)

1. Compare and contrast how diverse cultural, ethnic and social backgrounds impact patient, family, and community values regarding psychological disorders.
2. Analyze evidence in determining legislation for patients with psychological disorders.
3. Utilize data and methods that improve the quality of health care systems. 
4. Identify the contributions of others on the healthcare team in helping patient/family achieve psychological health goals.
5. Summarize strategies to promote safety of the patient and healthcare team.
6. Utilize teaching materials, online patient charting, interpreter services and other modalities to ensure holistic patient communication.

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. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
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. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Ability

• Intercultural Engagement: 

  Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.