NUR5015 Communication and collaboration for clinical partnerships
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
NUR5015 Communication and collaboration for clinical partnerships is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, offered in 2025 in Semester 2 at Peninsula. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 2
- Peninsula
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2026 entry.
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Requisites
Before NUR5015
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After NUR5015
No unit lists NUR5015 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Must be enrolled in course code M6031 in the Mental Health Nursing specialisation.
Overview
This unit builds upon the unit ‘fostering therapeutic interactions in mental health nursing’ and focuses on advanced communication and approaches for collaborative practice with stakeholders. Stakeholders include service users, carers and families, and interdisciplinary teams across settings.
You will develop skills to collaboratively plan and evaluate care, with consideration to psychosocial interventions to support service users in their recovery. You will further focus on approaches to reduce the use of coercive practices and keeping service users safe from additional harm in genuinely therapeutic environments in their homes, local community settings, or in specialised mental health settings. This unit will also support you in exploring the importance of leadership in working in clinical partnerships.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Peninsula | Flexible |
Assessment
- Care plan and presentation (1,800 words + 10 min presentation)Presentation45%
- Case study analysis (2,000 words)Written35%
- Personal reflection (1,000 words)Written20%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Collaboratively plan and evaluate person-centred and recovery-focused care with stakeholders
- 2
Reflect on the key attributes required of a mental health nurse to facilitate collaboration and partnerships when working with service users
- 3
Determine appropriate psychosocial interventions for service users to support recovery
- 4
Analyse factors that may affect the outcomes of psychosocial interventions for service users
- 5
Analyse approaches for de-escalation to reduce aggression and the use of coercive practices
- 6
Justify the need for collaborative approaches to safety planning that balance duty of care with dignity of risk
- 7
Examine identity, professionalism and leadership in mental health nursing practice for genuine collaboration with stakeholders.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials18 hours
24 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials and online activities
Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Associate Professor Adam Searby
- Unit Coordinators
- Associate Professor Adam Searby
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for NUR5015?
NUR5015 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is NUR5015 offered?
In 2025, NUR5015 runs in Semester 2 at Peninsula.
Does NUR5015 have an exam?
No. NUR5015 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.