306937 (v.1) Advanced Practice - Mental Health 562

Area:	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits:	25.0
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
Syllabus:	Psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders and therapeutic interventions for mental illness across the lifespan. Psychosocial, political, environmental, economic effects on mental health and illness of clients and families. Client screening, assessment, management, consultation, referral and evacuation. State Acts of Parliament and regulations pertaining to nursing mental health clients. Substance use and mental health, stress management and personal safety. Counselling, and multicultural and indigenous 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:	060399 Nursing not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Central External
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1		Y
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 2		Y
2009	Geraldton University Centre	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