850a/b/c. Advanced Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing Practice. Minimum 4 credit hours fall term and 3 credit hours spring term. The aim of the final practicum is to promote development of leadership skills required for professional practice at the clinical nurse specialist level. Emphasis includes building upon first-year clinical skills to include group and/or family treatment methods and refinement of individual psychotherapy techniques for a select population; identification of opportunities for or actual provision of indirect care through such activities as consultation, supervision, or education; understanding the influence of organizational structures and systems issues on the delivery of services to clients. Students elect to focus their clinical experience on women, children, and families; the psychiatric consultation liaison nursing role with the medically ill population; adults with psychiatric disabilities; or the gerontological population. Required for all psychiatric–mental health nursing students in the final year of specialization. A minimum of twelve hours of clinical practice is required fall term, and nine hours spring term, including one hour of clinical conference. A summer course is offered for post master’s certificate students. V. Hamrin, coordinator.
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