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NURS5064: Mental Health Nursing in Context
2020 unit information
Understandings of mental health and wellbeing and the contexts in which health care practices occur, are variously informed and shaped by sociocultural, political and economic factors and diverse research evidence. Competing healthcare agendas and powerful paradigms have important implications for mental health nursing practice. This unit will assist students to extend their knowledge and envisage possibilities for their nursing practice, by critically examining and discussing the evidence and external factors that influence contemporary models of mental health care. Students will be challenged to evaluate the prominence and impacts of biomedical models, to explore more participatory frameworks for practice, and to consider humanistic ways of working with individuals and their networks that are recovery-oriented and resource promoting.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Nursing and Midwifery
| Code | NURS5064 |
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| Academic unit | Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. articulate and critically evaluate the diversity of socio-political, professional, and organisational impacts on mental health service provision, and the influence of biomedical and psychosocial approaches on the experience and delivery of mental health care
- LO2. analyse and synthesise knowledge of recovery-orientated frameworks and democratic, person-centred and resource promoting ways of working, and integrate this into interdisciplinary planning and communication, and collaborative mental health nursing practice with people experiencing mental health issues, and their support networks
- LO3. locate, analyse, and synthesise contemporary interdisciplinary evidence and lived experience/subjective perspectives, to critically discuss therapeutic approaches to mental health care and nursing practice.
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