NURS20151 - Creating Meaningful Relationships

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit examines key principles, strategies, and approaches to engaging and interacting with diverse people with the lived experience of mental illness. You explore the physical, emotional, and behavioural reactions of people who experience stress, distress, and mental illness, examining how the reactions can affect your interactions with consumers and their families or carers. You also critically appraise the components of an ethical, therapeutic relationship in the context of recovery-oriented approaches to supporting diverse consumers and your interpersonal and therapeutic communication skills. Finally, you critically reflect on the importance of mental health nurses maintaining professional ethical boundaries, participating in regular reflective practice, and engaging in clinical supervision.

Details

Level Postgraduate
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).

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Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

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 Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 50%
2. Reflective Practice Assignment 50%

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%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 71.43% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 35% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

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.

Source: self
Feedback
(i) Self-evaluation: perhaps more emphasis on video lectures may further prompt connection and engagement to distance students.
Recommendation
Further develop video resources to promote engagement
Action Taken
Additional video clips have been added.
Source: Verbal feedback during mental health meetings
Feedback
(ii) Staff feedback: MH Team were supportive of changes to assessment items to reflect a more balanced clinical / consumer interface in the unit content
Recommendation
Sustain a level of clinical content within the unit
Action Taken
Clinical content is reviewed frequently and contemporary clinical content added.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
(iii) Student feedback: student feedback was positive related to Moodle site navigation, content and support
Recommendation
Sustain existing resources and supports
Action Taken
Continue with easy to use Moodle navigation.
Source: Course committee
Feedback
(iv) Broader feedback: issue relating to poor feedback response and non-submission of assessments
Recommendation
-consider new engagement methods to address poor feedback response of 25% -phone contact, follow-up emails and consultation with DDLT regarding non-submission of assessments
Action Taken
Engagement was considered. Phone calls will be made to follow up on non submission of assessment items and phone calls made to offer support to students.
Source: Student feedback in zoom meeting catch ups
Feedback
Students commented that the inclusion of the consumer voice
Recommendation
Continue to further explore ways of bringing consumer voice into the unit teachings.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Examine key principles, strategies, and approaches to engaging and interacting with diverse people with the lived experience of mental illness.
  2. Explore the physical, emotional, and behavioural reactions of people who experience stress, distress, and mental illness, including how these reactions can affect professional interactions with consumers and their families or carers.
  3. Critically appraise the components of ethical, therapeutic relationships with diverse consumers in the context of recovery-oriented approaches.
  4. Evaluate your interpersonal and therapeutic communication skills when interacting with diverse people.
  5. Critically reflect on the importance of mental health nurses maintaining professional ethical boundaries, participating in regular reflective practice, and engaging in clinical supervision.

The updates will support external reaccreditation with the ACMHN.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Written Assessment • • • •
2 - Reflective Practice Assignment • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
2 - Communication • •
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills • • • •
5 - Self-management • •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8