
Nursing Department
Mental Health Nursing
Mental health Nursing is a department which emphasizes the importance of nursing care of patients with mental health disorders. we provide clinical experience at Institute of Mental Health, Chennai, and Government Headquarters hospital, Erode where students are exposed to different case and learn to provide real nursing care.
Salient features are
- Awareness on psychosocial rehabilitation
- Outreach programmes on awareness of mental illness and its treatment
- Performing psycho-therapies
- Counsel patient and educate family members
- Competence in Case work and critical pathway
- Awareness programme on suicide prevention, Alzheimer’s and world mental health day
- Special clinical exposure in well reputed mental health institutions
- Counseling services for student nurses
- Special classes for student nurses are taken by psychiatrist and clinical psychologist
- Training focusing more on psychiatric emergency, child and community psychiatry
- Providing comprehensive care to patients with mental health problems
- Application of complimentary therapies on mental health