NURS 7221 Operational Behavioral Health for Advance Practice Nurses
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to perform operational behavioral health in environments other than garrison. It covers administrative behavioral health issues, deployment related readiness concerns and military health system policy related to the readiness of service members. Combat and operational stress control principles are the focus, and interprofessional education combines efforts to create “Behavioral Health at Bushmaster”. Students cover as many of the nine functional areas of Combat and Operational Stress as possible and participate in exercises related to BH consultation/education, BH triage/stabilization, BH treatment, restoration, reconditioning, reconstitution, traumatic event management, and BH unit needs assessments.