NURS20152 - Advanced Therapeutic Interventions

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit will introduce and provide the skills to apply and evaluate advanced therapeutic interventions in contemporary mental health nursing practice. Such interventions will include talking and other therapies, medication regimes and other contemporary interventions. While these interventions will be studied within the context of a Recovery approach, you will be encouraged to explore other theories that implicitly or explicitly drive your mental health nursing practice.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
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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Higher Education Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2017

There are no Higher Education availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2017
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. Written Assessment 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%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 4 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 22.22% 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: Student feedback to unit of study coordinator.
Feedback
Students appreciated being able to select their own therapeutic intervention to investigate and practise.
Recommendation
Assessment tasks where possible should allow students to choose their own topic.
Action Taken
Students were given one-on-one zoom sessions to assist in discussing, selecting and developing portfolio topics.
Source: Student
Feedback
The Practice Portfolio was tricky to put together. I did not like using Mahara, it was time consuming and I struggled to upload files. It was disjointed.
Recommendation
Unit coordinator to provide more guidance and assistance to students in using Mahara or investigate introducing alternative portfolio software.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student
Feedback
I really liked the quizzes. It was great not having to solely rely on your essay writing skills here.
Recommendation
Quizzes will continue to be used in further offerings of this subject.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student
Feedback
Hyperlinks did not open up into new windows. This made it difficult for me to use my Ipad.
Recommendation
Hyperlinks will be set to open up into new windows to facilitate the use of hand-held devices.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Analyse a variety of models of psychosocial interventions which inform co-constructed personalised care such as motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, acceptance and commitment.
  2. Apply evidence-based principles (best available evidence, consumer preferences, and clinical context) to evaluate the use of therapies, medication regimes and frameworks informing mental health nursing practice.
  3. Plan interventions and establish goals with the consumer to promote recovery.
  4. Identify, develop and evaluate advanced therapeutic interventions relevant to recovery in different situations and contexts of care..
  5. Idenitfy and reflect on the implicit and explicit theories driving your practice.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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