NS5320:03
Mental Health Nursing Practice 3 – Adult
Townsville
Prerequisites: NS5310
30 contact hours, 120 clinical hours. Block mode. First semester.
Available to students who have registration as a nurse; preferably with Bachelor’s preparation in nursing or a related discipline, and who have completed first year subjects for the Postgraduate Diploma of Mental Health Nursing.
The subject will examine the mental health/ mental illness continuum focusing on stressors and milestones of this developmental stage, serious mental illness as experienced in the adult and treatment modalities pertinent to adult mental health nursing. It will include such topics as theories related to the psychodynamics of the adult phase of the life cycle, sociocultural influences on occurrences of mental illness in the adult, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, forensic psychiatry, assessment methodology, individual, group and family therapies and counselling interventions, adult learning principles and concepts and their implication in mental health promotion and principles of family interventions.
Learning Objectives:
- knowledge of current treatment options for acute, episodic and chronic mental illness and skills in treatment of interventions for disturbed and distressed behaviour;
- knowledge of the application of various assessment tools used in a variety of settings;
- evaluate and document effectiveness of planned interventions in consultation with the consumer and the multidisciplinary team;
- develop understanding of forensic psychiatry and the multi factors contributing to social deviance.
Assessment by assignment and case study presentations.
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