NUR5215 Mental health nursing concepts and practice
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
NUR5215 Mental health nursing concepts and practice is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2024. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2024
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
This is the 2024 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before NUR5215
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After NUR5215
No unit lists NUR5215 as a prerequisite in the 2024 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Corequisite: Must be enrolled in course code M6031
Overview
This unit will equip you with the core knowledge and skills required of a mental health nurse to work collaboratively with service users to support and promote their journeys towards recovery.
You will examine common mental health conditions that are experienced across the lifespan, develop skills in assessment, and explore pharmacological and psychosocial approaches to support symptom management and recovery.
Additionally, you will explore legal and ethical issues, and frameworks/strategies pertaining to mental health nursing that informs care delivery, safe practice and optimise health outcomes for service users, their families, carers and supporters.
Offerings in 2024
The 2024 handbook lists no offerings for NUR5215.
Assessment
- Summary (Letter) (1,000)15%
- Case study report (2,000)40%
- iSAP case study (2,600 words (word equivalence 3,250 words)45%
- Clinical portfolio (Pass/Fail)Competency hurdle-
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Critically discuss and apply assessment frameworks used in mental health nursing with consideration to social, psychological and cultural factors when working with service users
- 2
Discuss mental health nursing approaches and apply evidence-based practice that supports service users’ mental health and their recovery
- 3
Integrate knowledge of psychotropic medications used in mental health practice to support service users’ mental health and their recovery
- 4
Critically examine the role of the mental health nurse in non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches to treatment for people with mental health conditions
- 5
Plan, implement and evaluate person-centred nursing interventions that support recovery
- 6
Apply relevant legislation with consideration of ethics in the decision-making process of mental health nursing practice
- 7
Examine the role of the mental health nurse in the delivery of person-centred, recovery focused and trauma informed care
- 8
Critically examine the mental health nursing identity in contemporary practice
Workload and teaching
24 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including online activities.
Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Ms Alison Hansen
- Chief Examiners
- Ms Alison Hansen
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for NUR5215?
NUR5215 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is NUR5215 offered?
NUR5215 has no offerings listed in the 2024 handbook.
Does NUR5215 have an exam?
No. NUR5215 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.