COLLEGE OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY FJMU LAHORE

B.S Nursing (4-Years Degree Program 3rdProf

TABLE OF SPECIFICATION “MENTAL HEALTH NURSING”

TOTAL UNITS: 13
Total Marks: 50
MCQs: 20 Marks: 20
SEQs: 05 Marks: 5x5: 25
Internal assessment: 05
Mental Health Nursing
S NO UNIT MCQs SEQs Marks
Unit I Mental Health & Mental Illness 02 01 07
Unit II Tools of Psychiatric Nursing 04 02 14
Factors Affecting Mental Health and
Unit III 01 01 06
Mental Illness
Bio-Psychosocial Interventions (to be
Unit IV taught in different classes and during 01 01
clinical conferences as appropriate)
Unit V Psycho pharmaco dynamic
Unit VI Personality Disorders 04 04
Mental health Problems &
Unit VII 05 01 10
Therapeutic Interventions
Unit VIII Childhood Mental Disorders
Unit-IX Geriatric Mental Health problems 01 01
Unit X Community Mental Health Nursing 01 01
Unit XI Rehabilitation and Recovery: 01 01
Internal Assessment 05
Total 20 05 50

S No Topic Content MCQs SEQs

1. Unit I: 1. Analyze own perceptions, values, 02 01
Mental beliefs and feelings towards mental
Health & health and mental illness
Mental 2. Analyze cultural perceptions to
Illness mental health, mental illness and
mental health nursing.
3. Discuss about the history of
psychiatry and psychiatric nursing in
 Pakistan
4. Demonstrate understanding about
laws governing admissions and
discharge of clients in mental health
settings
5. Analyze the common personal and
civic rights retained by patients in
mental health settings and ethical
issues related to it
Unit II: A: Therapeutic Communication and
Tools of therapeutic relationship:
Psychiatric 1. Discuss significance of
Nursing communication skills in mental health
settings
2. Describe techniques that facilitate
or impede therapeutic communication
in mental health settings
3. Demonstrate ‘use of therapeutic
self’ while dealing with clients with
mental health problems in selected
settings.
B: Mental health assessment:
2. 1. Discuss nature, purpose and process 04 02
of mental health assessment
2. Begin to analyze clinical findings
that indicate mental health problems
in selected clients.

C: Self Awareness:

1. Define self-awareness
2. Establish relationship between self-
awareness and development of
therapeutic relationship in mental
health setting.
Unit III: 1. Describe biological, sociocultural
Factors and interpersonal factors and their
Affecting impact on mental health and mental
3. Mental illness 01 01
Health and 2. Discuss stress and adaptation, and
Mental its relationship with mental health and
Illness mental illness
4. Unit IV: 1. Discuss effective ways of managing 01
Bio- anger
Psychosocial 2. Discuss cognitive behavioral therapy
Intervention 3. Discuss psychopharmacological
s (to be interventions
taught in 4. Describe the mechanism of action,
different clinical
 use, and side effects related to drugs
classes and
used in mental health settings
during
5. Identify role of the nurse in
clinical
psychopharmacological treatments
conferences
6. Analyze relevance and
as
appropriateness of these therapies in
appropriate)
the field of mental health
Unit
V:Psychopha
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1. Discuss the development of
personality disorders.
2. Discuss some common features
exhibited by individuals with antisocial
and borderline personality disorder.
Unit VI: 172
6. Personality 3. Explore causative factors of 04
Disorders personality disorders
4. Utilize nursing process based on an
understanding of the psychodynamics’
of clients exhibiting various
maladaptive behaviors in selected
situations.
7. Unit VII: A: Anxiety and dysfunctional anxiety 05 01
Mental responses
health 1. Discuss the concept of anxiety
Problems & 2. Discuss physiological, perceptual,
Therapeutic cognitive, and behavioral effects of
Intervention anxiety
s 3. Discuss various dysfunctional
anxiety responses [Generalized anxiety
disorder, Post traumatic stress
disorder, Phobia, Obsessive
Compulsive disorder, Conversion
reaction] and their basis in etiology
4. Demonstrate understanding of the
principles of nursing and psychosocial
care, while caring for clients with
dysfunctional anxiety responses.
B: Altered mood states:
1. Describe the continuum of adaptive
and maladaptive emotional response
2. Discuss phenomenon of ‘depression’
Analyze the prevailing psychological,
biological, and social theories that
serves as basis for caring for clients
with altered mood statesanalyze the
human responses to mood alterations
Discuss effective nursing and
psychosocial interventions for clients
with Altered mood states
C: Deliberate self-harm and suicidal
behavior:
1. Describe the continuum of adaptive
and maladaptive self- protective
responses
2. Discuss prevalence of self-harm and
suicidal behavior in Pakistani
population.
3. Explore predisposing factors,
precipitating stressors, and appraisal
of stressors related to self-protective
responses
4. Discuss effect to nursing
interventions related to self-protective
responses.
D: Altered thoughts and perceptions:
1. Describe ‘schizophrenia’ in light of
altered thoughts and perceptions
2. Distinguish key positive and
negative symptoms found in clients
with thought disorder
3. Analyze human response to
schizophrenia with emphasis on
perception, thought, activity, and
consciousness, affect, and
interpersonal relationship
4. Analyze predisposing factors,
precipitating stressors and appraisal of
stressors related to schizophrenia 173
5. Discuss principles of care for helping
client suffering from altered thoughts
and perceptions and their families.
E: Substance abuse and dealing with
aggressive clients:
1. Define the terms related to
substance abuse 2. Discuss
predisposing factors related to
substance abuse
3. Describe different categories of
drugs of abuse and their specific
Effects
4. Discuss principle of care for client
who abuses the drug.
5. Define violence, its possible causes
and characteristics
6. Describe theories contributing to
the development of aggressive
behavior
 7. Identify factors useful in predicting
aggressive behavior among clients
8. Discuss strategies to assess patients
with aggressive behaviors
9. Relate behaviors and values of
nurses related to violence and
substance abuse
10. Discuss primary and secondary
prevention of aggression in hospital
setting.
Unit VIII:
Childhood
8.
Mental
Disorders
1. Identify and describe the elements
of a comprehensive psychiatric
Unit-IX: assessment of elderly clients with
Geriatric compromised cognition.
9. Mental 2. Discuss Dementia and delirium in 01
Health relation to mental health of elderly
problems: 3. Analyze nursing care needs for
elderly clients with mental health
problems.
1. Discuss various models of
community mental health nursing and
Unit X:
its relevance to Pakistan
Community
2. Analyze functions of mental health
10. Mental 01
nurse in community setting of Pakistan
Health
3. Demonstrate understanding of faith
Nursing
healing practices as local resource for
community mental health in Pakistan.
1. Define tertiary prevention and
rehabilitation
2. Discuss the behaviors and
rehabilitative needs of people with
Unit XI:
serious mental health problems
Rehabilitatio
11. 3. Discuss response of families and 01
n and
communities towards rehabilitative
Recovery:
needs of clients.

TOTAL 20 05
Nursing Instructor Principal
College of Nursing & Midwifery College of Nursing & Midwifery
FJMU, Lahore FJMU, Lahore