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Assessment in Mental Health Nursing (NURS90078)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable (login required)(opens in new window)
Contact information
January
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
Availability | January - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject is designed to develop assessment skills for beginning specialist mental health nursing practice. Skills from Mental Health Nursing 1 will be incorporated with specialist communication skills. Consumer and family perspectives of needs, health and illness will be integrated in the processes of assessment and the investigation of models of care in multi-disciplinary settings. This specialist knowledge will be applied to nursing assessment and care planning, relevant to the range of high- and low-prevalence diagnostic groupings.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Apply principles of mental health nursing assessment and care planning to assess consumers, including for substance use and first episode psychosis
- Generate formulations in order to plan specialist mental health nursing care
- Select and evaluate nursing interventions for mental health service users with high and low prevalence conditions, including acute and primary
- Assess risk of suicide, self-harm and occupational violence
- Generate mental health nursing decisions and practice that incorporate strengths focus and recovery focus
- Relate assessment, formulation and mental health nursing care to sociocultural issues in contemporary society
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: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Written assessment
| From Week 2 to Week 5 | 25% |
Written assessment
| Week 7 | 25% |
Written assessment
| Week 9 | 50% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- January - Online
Coordinators Cathy Daniel and Bronwyn Tarrant Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 8 January 2024 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 15 January 2024 to 10 March 2024 Last self-enrol date 9 January 2024 Census date 2 February 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 February 2024 Assessment period ends 17 March 2024 January 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
170 hours (75 hours assessments, 85 hours content)
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Elder, R. and Evans, K. (2012) Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.
Halpell, B., Cowin, L., Roper, C., Lakeman, R. and Cox, L. (2013). Introducing Mental Health Nursing: A service user-orientd approach, 2nd Edition. A&U. - Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Certificate in Primary Care Nursing - 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
This subject is only available in Assessed mode through the Community Access Program (CAP). We do not offer this subject as in non-assessed mode.
Last updated: 31 January 2024