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NURS2010: Clinical Practice in Mental Health
2024 unit information
This practice-focused unit of study is the second mental health nursing unit in the BN(AS) program and builds on the foundational knowledge and skills gained in NURS2009 Promoting Well-being and Mental Health. Using a scaffolded approach, this unit provides students with an opportunity to extend their understanding of mental health problems and to explore a range of complex mental health issues across the lifespan. The mental health needs of specific populations are explored, including infants, children, adolescents and older persons. Issues inherent to perinatal and maternal mental health are also examined. A focus on therapeutic approaches used in mental health, including specific individual and group evidence-based interventions, will provide students with the opportunity to further develop their knowledge and skills in this area. The unit aims to strengthen students' fundamental knowledge and skills to ensure they are well equipped to provide evidence-based interventions and contribute to service developments that promote socially inclusive mental healthcare for individuals, families and communities. Comprehensive and holistic approaches that will be examined include recovery focused and supportive interventions, in which nurses partner with consumers to enable them to take control of their own mental health and wellbeing.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Nursing and Midwifery
| Code | NURS2010 |
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| Academic unit | Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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36 credit points of 1000 level units and NURS2004 or NURS2009 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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NURS2007 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. identify the mental health needs of specific populations across the lifespan, including perinatal and infant, children and adolescents, older persons, and incarcerated populations
- LO2. search for, evaluate and critically discuss the evidence for psychotherapeutic approaches/ interventions in mental health care for people across the lifespan experiencing mental health challenges.
- LO3. demonstrate and begin to apply knowledge and skills in care planning, nursing interventions, including the provision of individual and group therapeutic strategies
- LO4. work with people with experience of mental health challenges and their families/carers and other health professionals in ways that demonstrate cultural competence, collaboration, inclusiveness, open-mindedness and integrity
- LO5. apply key principles related to valuing individual experience, providing recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, strengths-focused care, and working collaboratively, in the practice of mental health nursing
- LO6. further develop mental health nursing skills, specifically the provision of individual and group strategies with people experiencing mental health challenges and family/carers
- LO7. demonstrate an understanding of the roles within the multidisciplinary mental health team, and the role that other government and non-government agencies play in the provision of mental health care
Unit availability
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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