Diploma in Psychiatric
Nursing Programme is approved by the academic faculty of Tribhuvan University.
The programme will start from academic session of 1999 will now start
from 2000.
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.
Entrance Requirements
In order to be eligible
for the admission to this programme, the candidates must:
- be registered with the Nepal Nursing Council
- have passed bachelor level course in nursing, and
- must pass the entrance examination as per Institute on Medicine's
examination policies.
Admission of the
students will be done strictly on merit basis and one candidate will
be allowed to sit for entrance examination three times only.
Graduation Requirement
To be eligible to
sit in the final examinations, the candidate must:
- complete 75 percent attendance in each of the theory classes and 90
percent in practical, and
- pass internal assessments.
The pass mark for
theory will be 50 percent and for practical it will be 60 percent. The
number of attempts one candidate will be allowed to sit for final examination
will depend on the overall policy of the Institute of Medicine. In each
reexamination, the candidate will have to sit for all the six papers
including practical.
