NUR206: Mental Health Nursing

This unit will focus on mental illness and models for effective psychiatric nursing care in the child, adolescent, adult and older adult.  This will include individual, contextual, developmental and modifying factors, contemporary and complimentary treatment modalities.  The unit will provide the theoretical knowledge to support the student in the acute and specialist mental health settings.  Knowledge and competencies will be demonstrated in structured clinical practice.

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Peel: S1-internal
Contact Time	Lectures: 2 hours per week; workshop: 2 hours per week.
Prerequisites	Completion of Part I of the Bachelor of Nursing OR Enrolment in Bachelor of Nursing Conversion.
School	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Unit Coordinator	Mrs Irene Ikafa Position: Lecturer, Mental Health and Aged Care E-mail: I.Ikafa@murdoch.edu.au Location: Peel Campus Peel100 Room 2.003 Phone: Prefix: +618 9582 5513
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Mrs Irene Ikafa Lecturer, Mental Health and Aged Care (I.Ikafa@murdoch.edu.au) 9582 5513 Peel Campus Peel100 Room 2.003 PEEL S1: Internal (15/02/2010 - 11/06/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)