NURS6522
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Online
- Trimester 3 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate complex understandings of the mental health issues experienced by women during pregnancy and in the first year after their babies’ birth; and be able to reflect critically on theory and professional practice in relation to perinatal mental health
2. Critically evaluate the major approaches and barriers to the assessment, care and treatment of women with perinatal mental health issues and/or illnesses
3. Identify and critically evaluate the effect of support systems such as the woman’s, family, social and professional supports have on women’s psychological health
4. Identify and engage appropriate support services and/or referral pathways for women (and partners) who require particular care, as well as personal and professional support for the midwife or nurse
5. Demonstrate the ability to incorporate the key concepts of health and the influence of culture for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in accessing health resources; and women ethnic and diverse needs
6. Demonstrate cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, concepts and theories, challenges and gaps and where possible apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice in relation to perinatal mental health; awareness raising, screening, assessment, management and treatment
Content
- Supporting emotional health and well-being through woman centredness
- Before screening and assessment: Follow-up options, safety issues, contributing factors, ethical and legal issues
- Screening and assessment: why, when, how?
- Mood disorders, postnatal depression
- Domestic/Family violence
- Impact of mental health conditions on the woman’s growing fetus/baby/child in later life
- Promoting mother/baby attachment
- Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
- Working with women with specific ethnic and other diverse needs
- Responding to assessment: treatment options, referral pathways and support services
- Medications in the perinatal period
- Law and ethics: autonomy; persons’ interests; moral agency/power/responsibility
- Advice seeking, clinical supervision, professional support, self-care
Assumed knowledge
Principles of investigative approaches in midwifery concepts and theories relevant to practice, contemporary nursing or midwifery issues. Academic reading and writing skills, ability to access and evaluate information from a variety of sources, skills in critical analysis, critical judgement, synthesis and evaluation.
Assessment items
Quiz: Quiz
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Written Assignment: Case Study
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Written Assignment: Literature Review
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Contact hours
Trimester 3 - 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 10 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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.