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NURX 403 - Mental Health Nursing Practice

Convenors

• Dr Marie Crowe
• Dave Carlyle

Eligibility

Current practice in a mental health setting

Content

This paper focuses on assessment, clinical reasoning and formulation, and psychotherapeutic interventions in practice.

The paper aims to meet the following learning outcomes:

• An understanding of the construction of mental health and mental health nursing and its cultural, sociopolitical, and historical context.
• An ability to critically reflect on mental health nursing practice to provide a consumer-centred approach to care delivery
• The application of critical enquiry and research to mental health nursing practice.
• An understanding of the skills required to promote a psychotherapeutic nurse-consumer relationship.
• Mental health nursing practice that is based on sound clinical rationale that incorporates comprehensive assessment skills, clinical judgements and a range of intervention options.

There are four workshops over the course of the paper. During the workshops there will be a mixture of small group discussions, didactic teaching and experiential learning that involves applying theoretical principles to clinical situations. Each workshop incorporates sessions on assessment, formulation and intervention along with a specific theoretical focus:

• Consumers’ and families’ experiences across cultures.
• Law, policy and practice.
• The historical, social and cultural context of mental disorder.
• Development of the role of the mental health nurse.
• The Nurse-consumer relationship.
• Challenging stigma and discrimination.

These topics are approached from a critical thinking perspective.

The paper may also be taken as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences (Mental Health, Nursing) or Master of Health Sciences (Mental Health, Nursing, Nursing-Clinical) programmes.

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Teaching Arrangements

The paper is taught in blocks. Four two-day compulsory workshops in Christchurch. Dates to be advised. Likely to be in

March
April
May
June

Assessment

There will be three pieces of assessment in NURX 403 . Successful completion of this paper requires that the student obtain a passing grade in each assessment item.

Enquiries regarding this paper should be directed to Judith Stone, Departmental/Postgraduate Administrator, Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, P O Box 4345, Christchurch, Tel (03) 372 0404, Fax (03) 372 0407, Email judith.stone@otago.ac.nz

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