Program Overview

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NRSG651 - Holistic Individual Centred Mental Health Nursing Practice

Year

2024

Credit Points

10

Campus Offering

The unit is offered online.

Unit Description

This unit focuses on the assessment of individual care needs, care planning, and care implementation using a person-centered approach. Students will explore how the therapeutic relationship forms the basis of a collaborative approach to assessment and care planning with individuals.

Unit Rationale, Description, and Aim

The aim of this unit is to prepare students to provide culturally safe, holistic, recovery-oriented care for people experiencing mental illness in various clinical settings. The unit emphasizes a team approach that is holistic, culturally safe, and recovery-oriented to assessment, care planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Learning Outcomes

To successfully complete this unit, students will be able to:

• Describe how a holistic person-centered approach to mental health nursing practice is integrated into a coordinated care model.
• Explain how the therapeutic relationship is central to providing care that is respectful of the individual's choice, experience, and circumstances.
• Utilize a range of communication skills to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships.
• Critically reflect on the impact of integrating a holistic person-centered approach to practice toward creating strategies that facilitate the individual's personal recovery.

Content

Topics include:

• Holistic care
• Holistic assessment and management
• Advanced therapeutic communication
• Communication skills for identifying and facilitating change in health behavior
• Evidence-informed therapies

Learning and Teaching Strategy

The unit uses an active learning approach, providing students with choice and variety in how they learn. Activities encourage students to bring their own examples to demonstrate understanding and application and to engage constructively with their peers.

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy allows for the progressive development of knowledge and skills necessary for students to utilize a holistic person-centered and recovery-oriented approach in mental health nursing practice.

Overview of Assessments

• Assessment Task 1: Written Assessment (50%) - Demonstrates knowledge of theories underpinning clinical practice.
• Assessment Task 2: Critical Reflection (50%) - Demonstrates knowledge and critical reflection of biopsychosocial assessments and therapeutic interventions.

Representative Texts and References

• American Psychiatric Association. (2022). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5, Text Revision.
• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. (2022). Person-centred care.
• Hercelinskyj, G., & Alexander, L. (2022). Mental health nursing: Applying theory to practice, revised ed.
• Meadows, G., Farhall, J., Fossey, E., Happell, B., McDermott, F., & Rosenberg, S. (2020). Mental health and collaborative community practice: An Australian perspective (4th ed).

Prerequisites

Nil

Teaching Organisation

150 hours of focused learning.

Campus

Online

Term

ACU Term 1 and ACU Term 3

Mode

Online Unscheduled