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NS5350:03

Mental Health Nursing Practice A

External

HECS Band 1

100 hours clinical (preceptored). Semester 1.

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.