NSB204 Mental Health: Self and others
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| Unit code: | NSB204 |
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| Equivalent(s): | NSB023 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $835 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,468 |
| International unit fee | $4,128 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2020, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | NSB204 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | NSB023 |
| Coordinator: | Vicki Simpson | vicki.simpson@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit focuses on the national health priority of mental health and explores social determinants, legislation and policies that inform nursing care provision. Mental health issues are a universal human experience across the lifespan and serious mental health conditions affect many Australians. Students gain knowledge of major mental health conditions and psycho-pharmacology. Learning activities embed concepts of a recovery approach and cultural safety in promoting positive messages that challenge stigma and discrimination. Emphasis is given to development of the professional self and attributes of trust, rapport building, and non-judgemental disposition. Focus is also given to developing skills in assessing and responding to people experiencing mental health issues including history-taking, mental health and risk assessment-using the recovery model. Course themes emphasised are evidence-based practice, cultural safety, and person-centred care.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply principles of cultural safety and reflect on self to articulate the role of self in person-centred mental health care and therapeutic use of self
- Demonstrate and apply knowledge of the challenges and factors that can compromise mental health for ourselves and others in order to promote positive mental health and wellbeing
- Conduct a biopsychosocial and mental status assessment to create a clinical formulation, informed by the recovery model, to enhance the provision of consumer focused care
- Describe key mental health issues and work with consumers and carers to address needs and promote recovery across the care continuum applying the Recovery Model
- Explain and apply knowledge of the mental health act and mental health standards for practice.
Content
Content will focus on the following four key areas:
Self, consumers, and carers:
Cultural safety in mental health: attitudes, values, confronting stereotypes, stigma
Understanding our own mental health and care of the self, mental health continuum
Person-centred care and therapeutic relationships, and therapeutic use of self
Therapeutic relationships with consumers, families, and carers in mental health
Recovery - person-centred and carer perspectives
Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing.
Understanding mental health and well-being, and challenges through life:
Social determinants of mental health and illness
What is mental health/mental illness and what are mental health issues and treatments?
Medical diagnosis and specific conditions- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V).
Clinical mental health nursing assessment:
Mental status examination, biopsychosocial history and assessment
Clinical formulation and handover
Nursing interventions for mental health and illness; continuum of care
The Safewards model of practice.
Legal, ethical, and professional Issues in mental health:
The Mental Health Act 2016 (Qld)
Ethical issues in mental health nursing
Professional boundaries and mental health standards of practice.
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a flipped classroom approach, using a blend of online activities and modules, and in-class activities towards developing your analytical and self-reflection skills. You will develop and practice reflection skills and reflective writing using a structured framework to facilitate deep, systematic reflection. Videos and digital case studies will be used to engage you with diverse issues and situations relating to mental health and to develop your ability to effectively assess and respond to mental health issues. Key models and frameworks will be used to support analysis and practice including the model of cultural safety, the recovery model, and ethical and professional standards. In-class group discussions and activities also develop your' abilities to confront and explore key themes and ideas and respond to related issues.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback and guidance on your progress will be provided in class on an individual basis as required.
Assessment
Overview
There are three summative assessments to be completed in this unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Systematic reflection
You will identify and reflect on key influences that inform and shape your understanding of mental health and mental illness. In addition you will reflect on the 'self', including your own strengths and weaknesses. As an outcome, you will identify actions towards improving communication skills for the provision of person-centred care.
Assessment: Case Study
You will conduct a biopsychosocial and mental status assessment to create a clinical formulation (informed by the recovery model) that enhances the provision of person-centred care.
Assessment: Online module activities
Case-based analysis with questions relating to clinical practice.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Additional resources will be set as required readings in some weeks.
Risk Assessment Statement
If you are distressed by issues explored in the content of this unit you should approach staff or consult the University counselling service. You will be made aware of evacuation procedures and assembly areas in the first few lectures. In the event of a fire alarm sounding, or on a lecturer's instruction, you should leave the room and assemble in the designated area which will be indicated to you. You should be conscious of your health and safety at all times while on campus. You can obtain more information on health and safety from http://www.hse.qut.edu.au/.