Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School: Nursing and Midwifery
This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.
Unit Title
Mental Health and IllnessUnit Code
NCS2102Year
2015Enrolment Period
1Version
3Credit Points
15Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Online
Description
This unit focuses on developing the student's knowledge and skills in the nursing care of clients with mental illnesses in the institutional and community settings. The focus is directed towards the exploration of issues arising out of adaptive versus maladaptive responses that relate to client and family psychological, social, biological and environmental stressors. The unit also examines the nurses' role in relation to the psychological, chemical and physical treatment modalities.
Prerequisite Rule
Students must pass 1 units from NCS1102, RPS1100
Equivalent Rule
Unit was previously coded NST2105, NST2106, NST2302
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Determine the community resources available for the treatment, support, and management of mentally ill clients and their families.
- Determine the mental state of clients by conducting a mental state examination.
- Evaluate legal and ethical nursing issues when caring for clients with altered mental health status.
- Justify a position of the nurse's role in the collaborative approach to the care of clients and families with altered mental health status.
- Using a problem solving approach to combine theory and evidence based practice to meet the needs of clients, groups, and families.
Unit Content
- Collaborative care of clients receiving physical and psychological treatments.
- Identification of concepts related to common mental health problems.
- Introduction to the problem solving approach to client care.
- Legal issues in mental health nursing.
- Nurses' role in a therapeutic community.
- Nursing care approaches to individual, group and family therapy.
- Nursing management of community resources for client and family.
- Problem solving with clients experiencing affective dysfunctions, deliberate self-injury, problems of self-control, perceptual disturbance and cognitive impairment.
- Theoretical frameworks for mental health nursing.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Lectures, Tutorials and E-learning.
Assessment
GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units
Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.
ON CAMPUS| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Test | Online Test | 20% |
| Assignment | Written Case Study | 30% |
| Examination | End of Semester Examination | 50% |
ONLINE| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Test | Online Test | 20% |
| Assignment | Written Case Study | 30% |
| Examination | End of Semester Examination | 50% |
Text References
- ^ Treatment Protocol Project. (2000). Management of mental disorders V1 and V2 (3rd ed.). Sydney, Australia: World Health Organisation Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Note: Optional text 1.
- ^ Hungerford, C., Clancy, R., Hodgson, D., Jones, T., Harrison, A., & Hart, C. (2012). Mental Health Care: An introduction for health care professionals. Queensland, Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
- ^ Barker, P. (2009). Psychiatric and mental health nursing: The craft of caring (2nd ed.). London, England: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. Note: Optional text 2.
- Healy, D. (2009). Psychiatric drugs: Explained (5th ed.). Sydney, Australia: Elsevier.
- Meadows, G., Singh, B., & Grigg, M. (2007). Mental health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice (2nd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
- Purdie, N., Dugeon, P., & Walker, R. (2010). Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice. Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth Government of Australia.
- Evans, J., & Brown, P. (Eds.). (2012). Mental health nursing: Australian edition. Sydney, Australia: Wolters Kluer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the APA (5th ed.). Washington DC: Author.
- American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., Text Revision). Washington, DC: Author.
- Elder, R., Evans. K., & Nizette, D. (2009). Psychiatric and mental health nursing (2nd ed.). Sydney, Australia: Elsevier.
Journal References
- Australian Journal of Social Issues
- Community Psychiatric Nursing Journal
- International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Journal of Gerontological Nursing
- Journal of Mental Health
- Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
- Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
^ Mandatory reference
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
Academic Misconduct
Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
- plagiarism;
- unauthorised collaboration;
- cheating in examinations;
- theft of other students' work;
Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.
The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.
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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School: Nursing and Midwifery
This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.
Unit Title
Mental Health and IllnessUnit Code
NCS2102Year
2015Enrolment Period
2Version
3Credit Points
15Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Online
Description
This unit focuses on developing the student's knowledge and skills in the nursing care of clients with mental illnesses in the institutional and community settings. The focus is directed towards the exploration of issues arising out of adaptive versus maladaptive responses that relate to client and family psychological, social, biological and environmental stressors. The unit also examines the nurses' role in relation to the psychological, chemical and physical treatment modalities.
Prerequisite Rule
Students must pass 1 units from NCS1102, RPS1100
Equivalent Rule
Unit was previously coded NST2105, NST2106, NST2302
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Determine the community resources available for the treatment, support, and management of mentally ill clients and their families.
- Determine the mental state of clients by conducting a mental state examination.
- Evaluate legal and ethical nursing issues when caring for clients with altered mental health status.
- Justify a position of the nurse's role in the collaborative approach to the care of clients and families with altered mental health status.
- Using a problem solving approach to combine theory and evidence based practice to meet the needs of clients, groups, and families.
Unit Content
- Collaborative care of clients receiving physical and psychological treatments.
- Identification of concepts related to common mental health problems.
- Introduction to the problem solving approach to client care.
- Legal issues in mental health nursing.
- Nurses' role in a therapeutic community.
- Nursing care approaches to individual, group and family therapy.
- Nursing management of community resources for client and family.
- Problem solving with clients experiencing affective dysfunctions, deliberate self-injury, problems of self-control, perceptual disturbance and cognitive impairment.
- Theoretical frameworks for mental health nursing.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Lectures, Tutorials and E-learning.
Assessment
GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units
Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.
ON CAMPUS| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Test | Online Test | 20% |
| Assignment | Written Case Study | 30% |
| Examination | End of Semester Examination | 50% |
ONLINE| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Test | Online Test | 20% |
| Assignment | Written Case Study | 30% |
| Examination | End of Semester Examination | 50% |
Text References
- ^ Barker, P. (2009). Psychiatric and mental health nursing: The craft of caring (2nd ed.). London, England: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. Note: Optional text 2.
- ^ Treatment Protocol Project. (2000). Management of mental disorders V1 and V2 (3rd ed.). Sydney, Australia: World Health Organisation Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Note: Optional text 1.
- ^ Hungerford, C., Clancy, R., Hodgson, D., Jones, T., Harrison, A., & Hart, C. (2012). Mental Health Care: An introduction for health care professionals. Queensland, Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
- Evans, J., & Brown, P. (Eds.). (2012). Mental health nursing: Australian edition. Sydney, Australia: Wolters Kluer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Healy, D. (2009). Psychiatric drugs: Explained (5th ed.). Sydney, Australia: Elsevier.
- Meadows, G., Singh, B., & Grigg, M. (2007). Mental health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice (2nd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
- Elder, R., Evans. K., & Nizette, D. (2009). Psychiatric and mental health nursing (2nd ed.). Sydney, Australia: Elsevier.
- Purdie, N., Dugeon, P., & Walker, R. (2010). Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice. Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth Government of Australia.
- American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., Text Revision). Washington, DC: Author.
- American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the APA (5th ed.). Washington DC: Author.
Journal References
- Community Psychiatric Nursing Journal
- International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Journal of Gerontological Nursing
- Journal of Mental Health
- Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
- Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
- Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
- Australian Journal of Social Issues
- Sociology of Health and Illness
^ Mandatory reference
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
Academic Misconduct
Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
- plagiarism;
- unauthorised collaboration;
- cheating in examinations;
- theft of other students' work;
Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.
The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.
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