The evolution of the role of the mental health nurse from asylum attendant to specialist practitioner has been influenced by a range of social, cultural, ethical, political, and scientific factors. This unit challenges you to evaluate the historical and contemporary influences shaping the professional identity and contemporary practice of mental health nurses. You examine the ongoing importance of the therapeutic relationship in the strengths-based, trauma-informed, consumer-centred, and recovery-oriented approaches that dominate current mental health service delivery. You also debate the continuing effects of stigma on people with the lived experience of mental illness and the role of mental health nurses in empowering consumers and their families or carers.
Level | Postgraduate |
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Unit Level | 8 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | 7 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Annotated bibliography | 60% |
2. Presentation | 40% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
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Term 1 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 4.9 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 41.18% response rate.
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Annotated bibliography | • | • | • | |
2 - Presentation | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | |
2 - Communication | • | • | • | |
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | |
7 - Leadership | • | • | • |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |