| CODE | NUR1307 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Foundations of Mental Health Nursing 1 | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Mental Health | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit explores the historical development of mental health nursing practice and looks at contemproary issues which act as the link to the other multi-disciplinary team members. Subjects covered include: Ethical issues in mental health, Theories of Health - physical vs mental health. Classification of mental conditions – DSM-4, ICD-10, Differences between mental illness and learning disabilities – incidence and prevalence of mental disorders. Verbal and non-verbal communication. Nursing process applied to a mental health clinical area – Observation Nursing process applied to a mental health clinical area – Assessment Nursing process applied to a mental health clinical area – Objective setting 1 (Behavioural) Nursing process applied to a mental health clinical area – Intervention Nursing process applied to a mental health clinical area – Evaluation Nursing process applied to a mental health clinical area – Record keeping. Study-unit Aims: To enable the student to develop insights into mental illness and to analyze the significance of historical and social perspectives on current day practice and service delivery. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Discuss the concepts of normality, abnormality and the interplay between the two; - Critically discuss the theories of health, mental health health and mental disorder; - Promote the understanding of the needs of people with mental illness or handicap and the role of the multi-disciplinary team in attempting to meet the needs of the various client groups; - Describe the classification of mental disorders; - Describe the sections of the nursing process and their relationship to care delivery. 2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills): By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - To produce a care plan for a specific clinical study based on observational skills and theoretical data from both the literature and role play activities; - To evaluate a care plan and outline changes that may be required; - To show a basic understanding of how to implement the nursing process within a mental health arena. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Ward, MF (1992) The Nursing Process in Psychiatry (2nd ed). Churchill Livingstone. Edinburgh - Schultz, JM. & Videbeck, SL. (2005) Lippencott’s Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care plans (7th Ed) Lippencott, Williams and Wilkins. New York. - W.H.O. (2007) International Classification of Diseases and Health Related problems (10th Revision) World Health Authority, Geneve. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Paulann Grech |
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