Advancing Recovery Focused Mental Health Nursing (for MN)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate and synthesise the evidence relating to the biological, psychological and sociological therapeutic interventions that can be used to promote well-being and recovery of people with mental health care needs.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive and critical understanding of the legal and ethical issues relating to individuals with mental health care needs.
• Deconstruct the potential power issues that exist in professional-service user relationships and articlate the nurse's role in addressing them.
• Discriminate the interpersonal, clinical reasoning, diagnostic and decision-making skills required for the assessment, planning and delivery of care for a person with complex mental health care needs.
• Develop and justify an in-depth knowledge of the aetiology, treatment and care needs of people with a range of mental health care needs.

The person who experiences trauma

The person with co-existing mental illness and substance misuse problems (dual diagnosis)

Early intervention in psychosis

Solution-focused approaches

Motivational interviewing approaches

Nurse's role in the administration of ECT

Forensic mental health care

Power issues in professional-service user relationship

Responding to diversity in mental health (i.e. gender, older people, interpreter requirements, learning disability)

Caring for yourself

Guided independent study

Lectures

Seminars

Role play exercises

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Peer and seminar lead feedback.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.