NMHS32410 Mental Health Nursing (Intl)

Academic Year 2018/2019

This module pertains to international students at level 3 or 4. It aims to enhance students’ knowledge of mental health and illness, to foster development of collaborative practice with service users and to contribute to ethical, professional responsibility and high quality practice based on values of respect for service users, their dignity, autonomy, beliefs and rights.
Purpose: To provide an accessible, practical and memorable overview of mental health and mental illness from an Irish, including some reference to cultural/ethnic considerations, and international perspective. To critically explore factors that maintain wellness and contribute to illness. To review a range of mental illness presentations and the nursing interventions / treatments available, both interpersonal and pharmacological, in the light of collaborative, recovery and strengths based approaches.
Focus: Mental health as a continuum, on being human & compassionate, nursing knowledge of mental illness and interventions and nursing skills essential to mental health care including communication, empathy building and therapeutic presence. The module includes seminars on self-care and compasion fatigue.
Key features: Class interaction, emphasis on group work, directed and collaborative learning, tutorials; in addition to lectures by key note speakers/ experts in the clinical field.
Assessment: is by written assignment, multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) and class presentation