Available in 2024
Course code

NURS2103

Units

10 units

Level

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