Postgraduate - UnitNUR5227 - Integrated mental health care

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Offered	Peninsula Second semester 2015 (Online)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Ian Munro

Synopsis

This unit focuses on key concepts such as models of mental health service delivery, consumer and carer participation and perspectives, and professional issues in mental health nursing. It provides an in-depth analysis of each major component of an integrated mental health service and also covers special populations and transcultural mental health issues.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Describe the characteristics of an efficient and cost effective comprehensive mental health service;
Critically analyse contemporary approaches to mental health service delivery;
Discuss the importance of consumer and carer perspectives and participation in mental health service delivery;
Describe the mental health nurse's scope of practice in a range of health care contexts;
Demonstrate understanding of the needs of special populations including people from non-English speaking backgrounds, refugees, homeless people;
Discuss the influence of culture, gender and coexisting conditions on the care of people with mental health problems and disorders;
Act as an effective leader, health educator, resource person and catalyst for change to individuals, families, health professionals and the community.

Assessment

Written assignment (3,000 words) (40%)
Written assignment (3,000 words) (40%)
Online exercises (20%)
Clinical skills assessment (Hurdle)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Ian Munro

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Nursing