Courses Handbook 2009

309853 (v.1) Mental Health Nursing 562


Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Co Requisite(s): AND
Syllabus: Mental health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan. Partnerships model of care and models of mental health nursing practice. Psychiatric rehabilitation, psychopharmacology, risk assessment. Management of critical incidents. Diagnostic reasoning, and evidence-based clinical decision-making within the legal, ethical and moral frameworks of care delivery. Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses Inc. standards of practice and the national practice standards for the mental health workforce. Counselling and multicultural and Indigenious issues.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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