NURS 7121 Psychopharmacology I
This course provides students with the necessary psychopharmacologic content required to prepare them to function in an advanced practice role as a Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. This course builds on the core nurse practitioner pharmacology course, health assessment, physiology and pathophysiology, and mental health content from other courses. The focus of this course is on neurotransmission and medications used as antipsychotics and mood stabilizers specific to individuals with psychiatric illness and mental disorders across the lifespan. This course will challenge students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills as they apply psychopharmacologic principles to a wide array of chronic and acute psychiatric and medical clinical conditions. Students will learn to synthesize evidence based psychopharmacological treatment of mental health disease components related to operational, humanitarian, and homeland defense health risks.