| CODE | MNH3007 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Mental Health Nursing Clinical Practice 6 | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Mental Health | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will provide the opportunity for the student to function as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the unit/ward under the supervision of a clinical mentor. Students must demonstrate clinical and theoretical knowledge/skills linked to practice. Students at the end of the study unit must be able to achieve proficiency in the necessary mental health nursing competencies linked to this. This is the last practice study-unit and therefore the final opportunity for students to practice skills/competencies in preparation for the students’ final clinical examination. Study-Unit Aims: To provide the student with supervised clinical placement, for both skills development and theoretical application to practice. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Relate theory to practice within the clinical placements area; - Compare different clinical settings to establish how forms of mental health nursing varies across them; - Describe how care is organised in different settings; - Describe the main aim and functioning of the specific clinical setting that they are placed in. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Participate in the daily activities within the clinical setting; - Integrate within the multidisciplinary team; - Manage a care programme for a designated patient throughout a shift; - Work as a team member; - Complete the mental health nursing competencies associated with the study-unit; - Evaluate their strengths and weaknesses assessment against their progress within the clinical area. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Gamble, C & Brennan, G. 2000 Working with serious mental illness: a manual for clinical practice. Bailliere Tindall & The Royal College of Nursing. London. Supplementary Readings: - Stevenson, C. (Ed) 2003 Patient and person (European Edition). Churchill Livingstone. Edinburgh. - Barker, P. (Ed) 2009 Mental health nursing: the craft of caring (2nd Ed). Hodder Stoughton, London. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Practical | ||||||||
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