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 Illness
  • Unit Code

    NCS2102
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amanda Lesley COLE-HEATH

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 NCS1202, NCS1201 and NPP1201

Only students studying courses C33, Y61, Y76, Y19 or Y79 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NST2105, NST2106, NST2302

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine the community resources available for the treatment, support, and management of mentally ill clients and their families.
  2. Determine the mental state of clients by conducting a mental state examination.
  3. Evaluate legal and ethical nursing issues when caring for clients with altered mental health status.
  4. Justify a position of the nurse's role in the collaborative approach to the care of clients and families with altered mental health status.
  5. Using a problem solving approach to combine theory and evidence based practice to meet the needs of clients, groups, and families.

Unit Content

  1. Collaborative care of clients receiving physical and psychological treatments.
  2. Identification of concepts related to common mental health problems.
  3. Introduction to the problem solving approach to client care.
  4. Legal issues in mental health nursing.
  5. Nurses' role in a therapeutic community.
  6. Nursing care approaches to individual, group and family therapy.
  7. Nursing management of community resources for client and family.
  8. Problem solving with clients experiencing affective dysfunctions, deliberate self-injury, problems of self-control, perceptual disturbance and cognitive impairment.
  9. 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
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Test10%
AssignmentWritten Case Study40%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Test10%
AssignmentWritten Case Study40%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination50%

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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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 Illness
  • Unit Code

    NCS2102
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amanda Lesley COLE-HEATH

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 NCS1202, NCS1201 and NPP1201

Only students studying courses C33, Y61, Y76, Y19 or Y79 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NST2105, NST2106, NST2302

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine the community resources available for the treatment, support, and management of mentally ill clients and their families.
  2. Determine the mental state of clients by conducting a mental state examination.
  3. Evaluate legal and ethical nursing issues when caring for clients with altered mental health status.
  4. Justify a position of the nurse's role in the collaborative approach to the care of clients and families with altered mental health status.
  5. Using a problem solving approach to combine theory and evidence based practice to meet the needs of clients, groups, and families.

Unit Content

  1. Collaborative care of clients receiving physical and psychological treatments.
  2. Identification of concepts related to common mental health problems.
  3. Introduction to the problem solving approach to client care.
  4. Legal issues in mental health nursing.
  5. Nurses' role in a therapeutic community.
  6. Nursing care approaches to individual, group and family therapy.
  7. Nursing management of community resources for client and family.
  8. Problem solving with clients experiencing affective dysfunctions, deliberate self-injury, problems of self-control, perceptual disturbance and cognitive impairment.
  9. 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
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Test10%
AssignmentWritten Case Study40%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Test10%
AssignmentWritten Case Study40%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination50%

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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