Mental Health Nursing
Vision
Focus on developing nursing students to develop competencies in meeting the mental health needs of clients, family, community and society at large.
Mission
The department is dedicated to the all round development of the students in areas of patient care, education, research and outreach activities.
The Department of Mental Health Nursing is a specialization in nursing that provides care to people of all ages with mental illness and in distress. The students are provided with knowledge and competence in clinical areas and can cater to the needs of clients by building a therapeutic relationship, deal clients with challenging behaviours, problems with addictions and community services. The students actively take responsibility in organizing teaching programs in the clinical are to nurses and patients. The department is more inclined towards preventive services especially promotion of mental health of all age groups. The students actively take part in collaborative research work. Students are provided with opportunities to attend educative programs such as conferences, workshops seminars, Continuing education programs(CNE) as well as continuing medical education programs(CME).The students actively observe and organize significant days such as Alzheimer’s day, Mental Health Day, World Autism Day, No Smoking Day, International Day Against Drug Addiction And Illicit Trafficking etc. The department has well experienced faculty with several years of experience in the field of mental health Nursing and have publications in National and international Journals. They have been invited as resource persons to various regional, state and national level workshops.
M.Sc(N)
H.O.D and Professor
Activities
- Skill in Conducting Mental Health Assessment of problems of mentally ill individuals, use of diversional therapies is developed.
- Various procedures like history collection , process recording, personal care , ECT, drug therapy, group therapy etc are demonstrated to students and return demonstration is performed. Trained in the use of Psychological Assessment scale.
- Exposure to de-addiction units, AA meetings, group meetings facilitates the understanding regarding process of de-addiction through Alcoholic Anonymous meetings, recreational activities, group meetings, special family therapy sessions.
- Visits to old age homes, special school, observation home, disability and handicapped schools, psychosocial rehabilitation centre, autism unit etc are planned.
Important days like International day against drug abuse and trafficking, World Alzheimer’s day, World Mental Health day, Autism day, World No Tobacco Day, Disability day, World Suicide Prevention day etc are observed.
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