Mental Health Nursingis a well equipped department in all spheres with excellent teaching faculties , a well equipped laboratories with manikins, ventilators and dialysis machine. At the College we have a separate departmental building. We have a tie up with various private and government health sectors like College have tie up with various private and government health sectors like Vazhikatti, Coimbatore, De addiction centre, Erode, Sowmansya Hospital, Trichy, IMH, Chennai, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Government head quarters Hospital, Erode.
Salient features
- Awareness on psychosocial rehabilitation
- Outreach programmes on awareness of mental illness and its treatment
- Nurse researcher in the branch of mental health and forensic psychiatry
- 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
- Preventive programmes on psycho active substance use disorders
- 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