| CODE | NUR2311 | ||||||
| TITLE | Mental Health Nursing Clinical Practice 7 | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Mental Health | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Each student will be placed on a particular clinical area relevant to their course of studies and be under the supervision on a named mentor. A series of competencies will guide the student through the work that they are required to do and, working with their mentor, they will develop an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, the skills development and the application of theoretical knowledge to clinical practice. Students will not be expected to function as 'qualified staff' but will learn the professional and personal skills under guidance and supervision from both mentors and academic supervisors in an incremental fashion, with each practice study-unit building on the previous ones. Skills developments including interpersonal professional practice, using reliable techniques will be placed against the ability to utilize nursing process activities in a safe and competent fashion. 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 the theoretical material from ancillary study-units to 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. 2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills): By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Relate the theoretical constructs from ancillary study-units to clinical practice activities; - Manage a care programme for a designated patient throughout a shift; - Work as a team member; - To successfully 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: - Gamble, C & Brennan, G. 2000 Working with serious mental illness: a manual for clinical practice. Bailliere Tindall & The Royal College of Nursing. London. - 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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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE NUR2300 | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Placement | ||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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