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Mental Health Nursing Practice 2 (NURS90119)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Online
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July
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In this subject students will apply theoretical principles in Assessment in Mental Health Nursing and the skills from Mental Health Nursing Practice 1 to support comprehensive patient assessment, monitoring and care planning in specialty nursing practice. Students will continue to apply current legal, ethical and policy frameworks to their practice. Students will continue to incorporate knowledge and evidence of bio-psycho-social factors influencing patient outcomes to inform their clinical decision making in practice and demonstrate clinical leadership skills.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject students will demonstrate theoretical knowledge and practical skills in mental health nursing by:
- Be familiar with attain the core documents in the practice of mental health nursing, including: Standards of Practice (ACMHN, 2010), Scope of Practice (ACMHN, 2013), National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce (2013), and Recognising and Responding to Deterioration in Mental State (ACSHC, 2014).
- Understand and act within mental health law and professional standards and ethics
- Understand the role of lifelong learning, clinical supervision and reflective practice in mental health nursing
- Discuss within a team a diagnostic issue relevant to a consumer
- Actively participate in de-escalation and early nursing intervention for prevention of clinical aggression with consideration to the consumer, staff, carer or significant other
- Demonstrate a nursing led group for consumers including planning, delivery and review
Generic skills
- A capacity to articulate their knowledge and understanding in oral and written modes of communication
- A capacity to manage competing demands on time, including self-directed project work
- Advanced competencies in areas of professional expertise and/or scholarship
- Advanced skills and techniques applicable to the discipline
- Well-developed problem-solving abilities in the discipline area, characterised by flexibility of approach
- An ability to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature in the discipline
- An appreciation of the ways in which advanced knowledge equips the student to offer leadership in the specialist area
Last updated: 3 November 2022