Course Description
The Post Basic Diploma in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing is designed to prepare nurses with specialized knowledge and skills in curative, preventive and promotive aspects of psychiatric and mental health care. The course includes training in in-depth mental health assessment, interventions, counseling models, therapeutic relationships, family and community partnerships. It equips nurses to assist patients with mental illness, psychiatric disorders and developmental and/or cognitive difficulties, function at their maximum potential, therefore playing a crucial role in advancing the mental health and well-being of individuals, families and communities.