• Course Title : Diploma In Psychiatric Nursing
• Category/Level : Diploma
• Course Duration (months) : 12 months
• Cost Range (NPR) : NA
• Affiliated to : Tribhuvan University

Course Description:

Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing Programme is approved by the academic faculty of Tribhuvan University.

Goal
This one-year programme, done in conjunction with Department of Psychiatry of IoM, aims to enable nurses to recognise, accept and carry out the responsibilities inherent in psychiatric nursing. The programme is designed to assist nurses to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for providing preventive, promotive, therapeutic and rehabilitative aspects of mental health care and psychiatric nursing to clients/patients in community and hospital setting.

Objectives

• On successful completion of the programme, the trainee will be able to: demonstrate his/her knowledge and skills in the dynamic of human behaviour;
• interpret his/her own behaviour and the effects of his/her behaviour on the patients, relatives and other team members;
• demonstrate his/her knowledge and skills in interpersonal relationship and therapeutic communication;
• appreciate the role of good interpersonal relationship in communication;
• apply his/her knowledge of psychiatric nursing principles while caring for the clients/patients with mental health problems/disorders;
• demonstrate knowledge of classification, aetiology, psycho-pathology, symptomatology and prognosis of various mental disorders;
• identify and apply the various therapeutic modalities in providing mental health/psychiatric nursing services to the clients/patients as a member of the health team;
• demonstrate skills in providing nursing care to the patients with different types of mental disorders by using nursing process both in hospital as well as in community.
• describe preventive, promotive and rehabilitative aspects of mental disorders and the role of psychiatric nurses in it;
• demonstrate interest in keeping abrest with the knowledge in emerging trends and approaches in mental health nursing;
• identify his/her role as a psychiatric nurses in mental health team while working in the community and hospital.
• describe the role of community mental health service in providing preventive, promotive, therapeutic and rehabilitative care to the people;
• explain the role of psychiatric social workers in dealing with mental health problems/disorders;
• conduct in-service education programme in mental health/psychiatric nursing;
• describe the legal aspects of psychiatry and psychiatric nursing;
• describe the existing social support net-work in the country which helps in providing preventive, promotive, therapeutic and rehabilitative care to the people with mental problems.