Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

309854 (v.1) Mental Health Nursing Practice 562


Area:

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0
 
** 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. **
 

Clinical Practice:

1 x 5 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

Mental health nursing practice and assessement. Professional communication, partnerships model of care, helping/therapeutic relationships, advocacy. Social justice, human rights, legal, moral, ethical and multicultural issues. Psychopharmacology. Clinical protocols, pathways and information systems used in mental health. Professional accountability and autonomy. Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses Inc standards of practice and the national practice standards for the mental health workforce.
 
** 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)

Funding Cluster:

12 - Nursing

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Pass/Fail

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y   Y 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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