NURS6055
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course provides students with an opportunity to advance their knowledge and skills in mental health nursing. The course includes comprehensive assessment, identifying risk factors, safety planning, formulation, diagnostic impressions and collaborative care planning in the acute mental health setting. Students will be encouraged to explore a collaborative, recovery based and trauma informed approach to practice that recognises contributing factors including the role of the consumer, cultural sensitivities, and co-morbid physical health problems on mental health and wellbeing.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Online
- Trimester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Review current understandings of the role of stress, genetic vulnerability and environmental factors on acute mental health presentations
2. Demonstrate advanced comprehensive mental health assessment skills in the acute care setting
3. Develop clinical formulations that include mental health and physical health issues and diagnostic impressions to guide approaches to collaborative care planning
4. Demonstrate skills in developing comprehensive and collaborative care plans with consumer and carer involvement
5. Recognise and demonstrate the importance of engagement and practice that is trauma informed and recovery orientated
6. Display an ability to assess for and identify a range of risk factors and recognise the role of safety planning in managing risk within acute mental health settings
7. Recognise the significant impact of co-morbid physical health problems on the mental health and well-being of consumers
8. Understand the role of psychopharmacology in the acute setting
9. Examine ethical dilemmas, issues related to cultural safety and vulnerable populations (such as Indigenous Australians) relevant to the delivery of care in acute care settings
Content
1. Engagement with the person in the acute mental health setting
2. Assessment, formulation, diagnosis and care planning in the acute mental health setting
3. Models of care, settings and context for acute mental health interventions
4. Ethical dilemmas and issues related to cultural safety and vulnerable populations (such as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples) relevant to acute mental health care settings
Assumed knowledge
Foundations of nursing knowledge, nursing theory, legal and ethical issues, fundamentals of research, human bioscience, psychology, sociology related to practice. Principles of investigative approaches in nursing, concepts and theories relevant to practice, contemporary nursing issues. Academic reading and writing skills, ability to access and evaluate information from a variety of sources, skills in critical analysis, critical judgment, synthesis and evaluation. Ability to conceptualise practice. Demonstrated Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council competencies.
Assessment items
Quiz: Quiz 1
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Written Assignment: Written Assignment 1
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Written Assignment: Written Assignment 2
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Quiz: Quiz 2
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Contact hours
Trimester 1 - 2024 - Online
Online Activity-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 8 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
- NURS6055 - Trimester 1, 2024 (Online) (PDF, 346.9 KB)
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.