NURS5412 – Enrolled Nursing Practice: Mental Health and Addictions
Module code
NURS5412
Module title
Enrolled Nursing Practice: Mental Health and Addictions
Prescription
To enable students to demonstrate knowledge, skills and attitudes when working with health consumers in mental health settings to meet the requirements of the Nursing Council of New Zealand competencies for the enrolled nurse scope of practice.
Programmes
- HS1702
NZQA Level
Level 5
NZQA Credits
30
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 300
Resources required
- Learning Outcomes
- 1. Describe what constitutes mental health for health consumers, family/whanau.
2. Recognise common disorders and assess changes in mood, cognition and perception for the health consumer and family/whanau.
3. Describe the impact of substance use and addiction on health consumers and their family/whanau.
4. Identify changes for health consumers and implement appropriate interventions, including a recovery approach in response to changes in mental health.
5. Explain how stigma and discrimination impact on consumers, family/whanau’s health and wellness.
6. Apply the principles of safe medication storage and administration within the legal framework and institutional policy of the specific clinical setting.
7. Maintain a safe environment for self, health consumers, families/whanau and co-workers
8. Meet the Nursing Council of New Zealand competencies for the enrolled nurse scope of practice. - Content
- Principles of mental health and addiction
Mental health and addiction disorders
Recovery focused care
Stigma and discrimination
Safe environment
Medication management
Clinical experience with a mental health and addiction focus - Learning and Teaching Resource
- A full set of resources will be issued for this course including course work and assessment materials, a list of required texts/library books, web-based resources, manuals/standards documents. Students will also be encouraged to use the library and other resources that can be accessed at Wintec.
- Teaching and Learning Strategy
- ??Lectures, tutorials, simulation, group discussions, guest speakers, independent learning, e-learning, work integration.?
- Assessment Criteria
- Assessment in this course is mixed mode.
