NS5350:03
Mental Health Nursing Practice A
Townsville
HECS Band 1
8 hours workshops, 52 hours limited attendance, 100 hours clinical (preceptored). Semester 1 by external mode.
Available to registered nurses who have completed a year’s practice and who are enrolled in a Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health either at this University or at University of Queensland. Registered nurses who have not yet completed a year’s practice will be considered on a case-by-case basis. All must be currently employed in a mental health setting.
Topics include partnerships and standards in care; caring for people with mental illness; families and care and mental illness; ethics in mental health; mental health legislation and nursing responsibilities; nursing roles in different settings; interacting with individuals – counselling; interventions with groups.
Learning Objectives:
- identify the role of mental health nurses within mental health care;
- identify and accept a variety of attitudes and perspectives to mental illness, its conceptualisation, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and impact;
- develop group skills to use with consumers, their families and carers.
Assessment by assignments, clinical evaluation and tutorial participation.