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Mental Health Nursing
The Department of Mental Health Nursing is committed to preparing nursing students to provide holistic, evidence-based, and compassionate mental health care to individuals, families, and communities across the lifespan. The department focuses on the promotion of mental well-being, prevention of mental illnesses, early identification, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery-oriented care. Through classroom teaching, simulation, clinical practice, and community mental health exposure, students develop the knowledge, clinical skills, therapeutic communication, and professional values required to deliver quality psychiatric nursing care in diverse healthcare settings.
Vision
To be a center of excellence in mental health nursing education, research, and clinical practice by developing competent, ethical, and compassionate nursing professionals who promote mental health and provide high-quality psychiatric care.
Mission
To provide quality education in mental health nursing through innovative teaching, simulation, and supervised clinical practice.
To prepare competent nurses capable of delivering safe, evidence-based, and person-centered mental health care.
To promote mental health awareness, early intervention, and community-based psychiatric services.
To encourage research, critical thinking, and evidence-based practice in mental health nursing.
To foster professionalism, ethical values, leadership, and lifelong learning in psychiatric nursing.
Objectives
To provide comprehensive knowledge of mental health, mental illnesses, and psychiatric nursing care.
To develop clinical competence in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating mental health nursing interventions.
To strengthen therapeutic communication, counseling, and interpersonal relationship skills.
To prepare students to provide holistic, person-centered, and recovery-oriented mental health care.
To enable students to identify, manage, and refer individuals with mental health disorders appropriately.
To promote mental health awareness, illness prevention, and early intervention through community mental health programs.
To develop skills in crisis intervention, psychiatric emergencies, and rehabilitation of individuals with mental illnesses.
To encourage research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement in mental health nursing.
To instill professional ethics, leadership, teamwork, and legal responsibilities in psychiatric nursing practice.
To prepare graduates to contribute effectively to national mental health programs and multidisciplinary mental healthcare services.
Faculty Members
| Sl no | Name of the faculty | Designation | Photo | Profile |
| 1. | Dr. Malasiddappa Tadalgi | Assistant Professor and HOD |  |
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