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NS5351:03

Mental Health Nursing Practice B

External

HECS Band 1

100 hours clinical (preceptored). Semester 2.

Availability as for NS5350 .

Topics include considerations of practice; individuals and families encountering mental health services; promoting mental health; cultural sensitivity - transcultural mental health; crisis intervention and emergency triage; physical treatment options - psychopharmacology; physical treatment options - electroconvulsive therapy; children and adolescents with mental health issues; mental health care in an ageing society; forensic mental health care.

Learning Objectives:

develop skills providing support to individuals with a mental illness and their carers in a range of general and specialist mental health treatment and support services;

recognise and utilise the expertise of individuals with mental illness and their carers in mental illness recovery and prevention.

Assessment by assignments, clinical evaluation and tutorial participation.