NUR5003 · Contemporary nursing practice 3

Overview

This unit builds on NUR5002 Contemporary Nursing Practice 2. This unit will introduce you to recovery oriented mental health practice, the concepts of ageing, and chronic and life limiting illness. This will provide you with the opportunity to further develop therapeutic nursing skills for person-centred practice. Mental health and chronic conditions across the lifespan and settings will be explored to enable development of knowledge and skills required for person-centred assessment and care planning. Opportunities for you to learn skills and perform evidence-based mental health and risk assessments will occur through case studies and clinical placements. The nursing roles of the nurse within the interprofessional healthcare team will be analysed. Clinical placement will enable you to observe and perform skills required for mental health and primary care nursing practice in different health care environments.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment task/s. Failure of any hurdle assessment tasks may result in failure of the unit.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Analyse the concepts of mental health and mental illness with reference to contemporary classification systems
2. Evaluate a range of mental disorders in the context of aetiological factors and epidemiology clinical manifestations, and recommend appropriate mental health nursing care
3. Apply relevant mental health legislation when caring for people with mental health conditions
4. Explore the role of the recovery oriented mental health practice in gaining and retaining hope, understanding of the client’s abilities and disabilities, engagement in an active life, personal autonomy, social identity, meaning and purpose in life, and a positive sense of self
5. Communicate effectively with key stakeholders in the delivery of recovery oriented mental health practice
6. Accurately conduct mental status, risk and other relevant assessments to help inform the provision of safe, high quality patient care
7. Compare and contrast a range of psychotherapeutic interventions and therapeutic modalities utilised in mental health treatment and care
8. Critique the national and international models of health care for chronic conditions and how this approach can lead to improved health outcomes
9. Explore the impact of ageing, chronic, and life-limiting illness on clients, families and carers including the perspectives of challenges to autonomy, protection of patients, and quality of life in order to provide optimal, person centred nursing care
10. Discriminate between health assessment, health promotion, supportive and palliative approaches for people with chronic and life limiting illness to provide appropriate evidence-based nursing interventions
11. Critically examine how the different roles of members in interprofessional teams, work together to provide expert care for people with chronic and/or life limiting illness in different health care environments
12. Demonstrate practice at a beginning level in mental health and primary care settings in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Registered nurse standards for practice, Code of conduct for nurses and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of ethics for nurses.

Workload

10 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials, clinical learning environments and online activities. Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.