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Mental Health Nursing Practice 1 (NURS90101)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 (Early-Start) - Online |
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| Fees | Look up fees |
In this subject students will apply theoretical principles outlined in each module to support comprehensive consumer screening, assessment, monitoring and care planning in mental health nursing practice. Students will apply current legal, ethical and policy frameworks to their clinical practice. Students will learn to incorporate knowledge and evidence of biopsychosocial factors influencing consumer and family/carer outcomes to inform their clinical decision making in practice and demonstrate sound clinical leadership skills.
Intended learning outcomes
- Be familiar with the core documents in the practice of mental health nursing, for example Recognising and Responding to Deterioration in Mental State (ACSHC, 2014).
- Understand the legal and ethical frameworks, mental health law, and professional standards of practice
- Understand the role of lifelong learning, clinical supervision and reflective practice in mental health nursing
- Conduct and accurately interpret a mental health assessment, including biological, social, psychological, cultural and spiritual factors that impact the consumer, their families and carers across the lifespan
- Realise the importance of recovery -oriented practices and principles of trauma informed care by embedding these philosophies into daily nursing activities
- Plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions that include consideration to therapeutic relationships, creating safe environments, psychopharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions
- Provide health literacy to support consumers, their families and carers in understanding their lived experiences in mental health services
Generic skills
On completion of the subject students should have developed the following generic skills of the Melbourne graduate and postgraduate coursework student:
1. A capacity to articulate their knowledge and understanding in oral and written modes of communication.
2. A capacity to manage competing demands on time, including self-directed project work.
3. Advanced competencies in areas of professional expertise and/or scholarship.
4. Advanced skills and techniques applicable to the discipline.
5. Well-developed problem-solving abilities in the discipline area, characterised by flexibility of approach.
6. An ability to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature in the discipline.
7. An appreciation of the ways in which advanced knowledge equips the student to offer leadership in the specialist area.
Last updated: 21 December 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Current employment and clinical support in a mental health speciality area.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 21 December 2022
Assessment
Additional details
5 x Clinical Skills Assessments, 200 words total equivalent, due between Term 1 week 3 – Term 2 week 9, pass/fail (pass all skills minimum level supervised to pass) Hurdle: Students must pass all 5 Clinical Skills Assessments to pass subject
Written assessment task 1‐ Interpretation of a clinical skill assessment (800 words), due Term 1 week 8 (40%)
Written assessment task 2, discuss two interventions provided within your clinical skill assessments, 1500 words, due Term 2 week 8 (60%)
Professional Behaviours (supervision log), due Term 2 week 9, pass/fail Hurdle: Record 16 weeks of activity (activity type includes clinical supervision/ reflective practice professional development and team meeting attendance)
Hurdle Requirements: Students must pass all 5 Clinical Skills Assessments to pass subject. Students must pass professional behaviours in order to pass the subject
Last updated: 21 December 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Early-Start) - Online
Coordinators Elizabeth Currie and Cathy Daniel Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Students are required to complete 10 hours of week of online learning and self‐directed learning activities. Total time commitment 85 hours Pre teaching start date 27 December 2021 Pre teaching requirements Students will familiarise themselves with the online platform which will provide an overview of the subject, assessment requirements and expected activities and behaviours. They will also be provided with information about studying online and informed about the University resources available to them. Teaching period 4 January 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 28 December 2021 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022 Semester 1 (Early-Start) contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Time commitment details
Students are required to complete 10 hours a week of online learning and self-directed learning activities
Last updated: 21 December 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
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Type Name Course Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Mental Health) - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Students undertaking this subject as CAP would need to be currently employed in a setting where they have access to an educator to complete the clinical skills.
Last updated: 21 December 2022