Mental health nurses are registered nurses with the knowledge, skills, and experience to deliver ethical, culturally safe, recovery-oriented, and evidence-based care to diverse consumers, their families or carers, and the community. In this unit, you further appraise mental health nurses' scope of practice as active multidisciplinary team members who build therapeutic relationships, conduct assessments, co-develop recovery planning, support a range of evidence-based interventions, and evaluate the effectiveness of the outcomes achieved. In light of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Scope of Practice (2012) and Standards of Practice (2010), the National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce (2013), you also interrogate the ethical and collaborative decision-making processes used to support diverse consumers and their families or carers to achieve optimal physical health and mental health recovery, according to the consumers' needs and preferences. Finally, you apply your learning in practice.
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. 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%).
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 5 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 25% 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:
Provisionally accredited with The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN).
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1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | ||
2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • |
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1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | ||
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | ||
5 - Self-management | • | • | • | ||
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |