Unit NURBN2024 - Nursing Practice 4: Mental Health Nursing

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The unit introduces students to contemporary mental health nursing concepts involving a recovery-focused and lifespan-based approach to mental health care. The unit will provide foundational knowledge around mental health care in various settings, assessment skills, communication, the principles and components of recovery and collaborative relationships with clients in mental health services across the lifespan. The unit will also emphasize the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act (2022) which was enacted in September 2023, and its focus on Right based objectives and principles, views and preferences of people living with mental illness or psychophysical distress, families, carers and supporters. Students will also gain a beginning knowledge and experience in a mental health clinical practice setting in which they can further develop some of these skills. The unit is underpinned by the guiding principles of National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce including rights, responsibilities, safety and privacy, consumer and carer participation, awareness of diversity, early detection and intervention, ethical practice and professional responsibilities This unit contains 120 hours Clincial Placement

Unit content

The current NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice, NMBA Code of Conduct for Nurses, Code of Ethics for Nurses, National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, Aged Care Quality Standards, National Health Priority Areas and where applicable the NMBA National Competency Standards for the Midwives, NMBA Code of Conduct for Midwives, ICM/NMBA Code of Ethics for Midwives have informed the content development of this unit. Topics of study may include: <ul> <li>Mental Health and Wellbeing Act Mental health assessment and treatment</li> <li>Mental health conditions including related pathophysiology and pharmacology</li> <li>Confidentiality, safety and privacy Recovery–led, lived and living experience workforce (LLEW), </li> <li>consumer and carer participation and partnership awareness of diversity - inclusion</li> <li>cultural safety</li> <li>medication safety in mental health</li> <li>promotion and prevention early detection and intervention relapse prevention and support</li> <li>integration and partnership documentation</li> <li>information systems evaluation and research</li> <li>ethical practice</li> <li>professional responsibilities</li> <li>the role of clinical placement in linking theory to practice</li> <li>therapeutic communication with clients who suffer from depression, experience suicide ideation and with patients who self-harm/risk take</li> <li>implementing the current mental health legislation, within the Australian healthcare system</li> <li>recognising and responding to deterioration in a person’s mental health state</li> </ul>

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Institute of Health and Wellbeing

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Nursing

Study level:

Undergraduate

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0.125

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Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)

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Yes

Placement hours:

120

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Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.

Institute / school:

Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Discipline:

Nursing

Study level:

Undergraduate

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.125

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

120

Fee information:

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