NUR5015 · Communication and collaboration for clinical partnerships

Overview

This unit builds upon the unit ‘fostering therapeutic interactions in mental health nursing’ and focuses on advanced communication and approaches for collaborative practice with stakeholders. Stakeholders include service users, carers and families, and interdisciplinary teams across settings. You will develop skills to collaboratively plan and evaluate care, with consideration to psychosocial interventions to support service users in their recovery. You will further focus on approaches to reduce the use of coercive practices and keeping service users safe from additional harm in genuinely therapeutic environments in their homes, local community settings, or in specialised mental health settings. This unit will also support you in exploring the importance of leadership in working in clinical partnerships.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Collaboratively plan and evaluate person-centred and recovery-focused care with stakeholders
2. Reflect on the key attributes required of a mental health nurse to facilitate collaboration and partnerships when working with service users
3. Determine appropriate psychosocial interventions for service users to support recovery
4. Analyse factors that may affect the outcomes of psychosocial interventions for service users
5. Analyse approaches for de-escalation to reduce aggression and the use of coercive practices
6. Justify the need for collaborative approaches to safety planning that balance duty of care with dignity of risk
7. Examine identity, professionalism and leadership in mental health nursing practice for genuine collaboration with stakeholders.

Workload

24 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials and online activities Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements

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