NURS2103
10 units
2000 level
Course handbook
Description
An introductory knowledge about mental health is essential for all nursing graduates. The establishment and maintenance of an empathic therapeutic person-centred relationship with consumers is central to all aspects of mental health nursing. Concepts covered in this course are informed by evidence and promote the rights of mental health consumers and carers to be fully engaged in their health promotion, assessment, treatment and recovery in collaboration with health professionals who provide mental health care. By the end of the course students will be able to contribute to the facilitation of recovery of mental health consumers by focussing on incorporating strengths and wellbeing in mental health care delivery in the nursing context.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 2 - 2024
Gosford
- Semester 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Identify the rights of mental health consumers, carers and significant others to lead their treatment and the recovery process.
2. Demonstrate relevant knowledge, skills and attributes in mental health nursing.
3. Discuss the rights of mental health consumers to live free from discrimination and social exclusion.
4. Identify strategies to develop empathic, compassionate and professional therapeutic relationships with mental health consumers, carers, and significant others.
5. Plan, develop, and evaluate evidence-based initiatives that promote mental health, prevent and intervene early in illness, facilitate recovery and promote wellbeing.
6. Explain how the recovery of mental health consumers is facilitated by focussing on their strengths and wellbeing.
Content
Module 1: The lived experience of mental health consumers, carers and their partnership in recovery, care and treatment.
Module 2: Building therapeutic relationships with mental health consumers, carers and families.
Module 3: Mental health assessment, health promotion and early intervention.
Module 4: Psychopharmacology
Module 5: Legal, professional and ethical issues in mental health.
Module 6: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing
Requisite
This course is only available to students who are active in the Bachelor of Nursing [11725] or the Bachelor of Nursing [40298] programs.
Assumed knowledge
Students in Bachelor of Nursing [11725] should have successfully completed NURS1101 and NURS1103 and successfully completed or are concurrently enrolled in NURS1201, NURS1202, NURS2101.Students in Bachelor of Nursing [40298] should have successfully completed NURS1001, NUR1002 and NURS1003 and successfully completed or are concurrently enrolled in NURS1004, NURS1005, NURS1006, NURS2001, NURS2003.
Assessment items
Quiz: Online Quiz x 5
Case Study / Problem Based Learning: Case study
Written Assignment: Written Assessment 1
Contact hours
Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Lecture-1
- Online 12 hour(s) per term
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 6 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 24 hour(s) per term
- Face to Face On Campus: 6 Tutorials x 2 hour(s) per TERMOnline: 6 Tutorials x 2 hour(s) per TERM
Semester 2 - 2024 - Gosford
Lecture-1
- Online 12 hour(s) per term
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 6 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 24 hour(s) per term
- Face to Face On Campus: 6 Tutorials x 2 hour(s) per TERMOnline: 6 Tutorials x 2 hour(s) per TERM
Course outline
- NURS2103 - Semester 2, 2023 (All) (PDF, 291.4 KB)
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