Version 1 or 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: relate core knowledge and core behaviors to the nursing care of clients with mental illness; plan psychiatric nursing care for individuals, families and groups to promote, maintain, and restore their physiological and psychosocial integrity by incorporating community resources; prepare nursing care for the client with mental illness using the core behaviors essential for nursing practice within the framework of the Nurse Practice Act; build the nursing plan of care using the nursing process to implement, manage, document and evaluate care of clients with mental illness; identify the cultural, spiritual, social and environmental impact upon the clients' and families' ability to meet mental health needs in the delivery of evidence-based mental health nursing care; demonstrate therapeutic communication techniques exercising civility and reciprocal caring within the multidisciplinary psychiatric team; and perform safe, effective and competent mental health nursing care using critical thinking and sound nursing judgment skills.