309853 (v.1) Mental Health Nursing 562

Area:	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits:	50.0
Contact Hours:	4.0

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Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:	Mental health prevention and promotion across the lifespan. Partnerships model of care, models of mental health nursing practice. Psychiatric rehabilitation, psychopharmacology, risk assessment. Management of critical incidents. Diagnostic reasoning, 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.

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Field of Education:	060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster:	12 - Nursing
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark
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