NURS20179 - Advanced Mental Health Nursing Skills

General Information

Unit Synopsis

The focus of this unit is advanced clinical practice for mental health nurses in a range of mental health nursing contexts and settings. You discuss clinical complexity in advanced mental health practice and what it means to provide safe, quality-assured, consumer-centred, recovery-oriented services at an advanced level; and examine the requisite knowledge base, complex decision-making skills, and the physical and mental health clinical competencies aligned with advanced practice in mental health settings across the lifespan. You also exemplify the advanced clinical assessment skills in physical and mental health practice, sound clinical reasoning, and the delivery of complex integrated, pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions. Finally, you justify the need for leadership, research, and education for advanced 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.

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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. Presentation 40%
2. Written Assessment 60%

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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Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Examine the concept of advanced clinical practice, including the requisite knowledge base, complex decision-making skills, and clinical competencies, in various mental health nursing contexts and settings.
  2. Discuss clinical complexity in advanced mental health practice and what it means to deliver safe, quality-assured, consumer-centred, recovery-oriented services at an advanced level.
  3. Interrogate the associations between physical and mental health and the clinical interventions for multimorbidity across the lifespan.
  4. Exemplify the advanced clinical assessment skills in physical and mental health practice, sound clinical reasoning, and the delivery of complex, integrated, evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions.
  5. Justify the need for leadership, research and education for advanced practice in mental health nursing.

Provisionally accredited with The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN).

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Presentation • • •
2 - Written Assessment • •
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 • •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • •
7 - Leadership • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8