Transcultural psychiatric nursing
Mr S J Elsom
4 hours per week * First semester * Peninsula
The subject will introduce students to crosscultural issues in psychiatric nursing and encourage students to explore cross-cultural issues embracing the age continuum and all health care contexts. Topics will include multiculturalism in Australia, politics of multiculturalism in Australian society, multicultural social systems, the multidisciplinary team, and the role of the nurse in transcultural psychiatry.
Assessment
Field work: 50% * Assignment (2000 words): 50%
Recommended texts
Beatie J Other cultures Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982
Bottomley G and De Lepervanche M (eds) Ethnicity, class and gender in Australia Allen and Unwin, 1984