NURS 7221 Operational Behavioral Health for Advance Practice Nurses
This course builds on the PMH didactic courses providing the student with knowledge and skills to perform operational behavioral health in environments other than garrison. This course covers administrative behavioral health issues within the military and deployment related readiness concerns and provides an overview of military health system policy related to the readiness of service members. Combat and operational stress control principles are the focus as behavioral health is often an underestimated and underrepresented consideration for disability during operational missions. Interprofessional education with School of Medicine and Psychology programs combine efforts to create “Behavioral Health at Bushmaster” in order to operationalize the behavioral health mission for the nursing and psychology students at Bushmaster. Students cover as many of the nine functional areas of Combat and Operational Stress as possible within the Bushmaster experience and to support the overall experience for all involved in the training. Using the landscape of Bushmaster, the students participated in exercises related to BH consultation/education, BH triage/stabilization, BH treatment, restoration, reconditioning, reconstitution, traumatic event management, and conducted BH unit needs assessments of the student platoons.