3500 word assignment related to care planning (assessment, planning, implementation & evaluation) for a chosen patient and incorporating issues of patient centredness and applied pathophysiology and/or pharmacology (100%) (Learning Outcome 2, 3, 4, 5, 7) (Term 8)

Achievement of NMC practice standards (Learning Outcome 1, 6) (Term 8)
All elements must be passed.

Formative: Seminar presentations in Biology / Pathophysiology

All students must adhere to the Faculty of Health and Science Policy on Confidentiality and Ethical Issues in Academic Practice and Learning

- Mandatory Sessions
- Core and Branch Specific Skills including psychiatric observation, motivational interviewing and risk management.
- Partnerships with service users and carers
- Mental distress from different service user and carer perspectives - hearing and making sense of service user and carer experiences
- Strategies to empower service user and carers
- Effects of bereavement, physical ill health and cognitive losses (e.g. memory), family dynamics, trauma and abuse on mental distress -
- Mental health problems in later life:- early and differential diagnosis, Mini-Mental State Examination, Intermediate Care and Rapid response, art therapy, non-verbal responses to older people in distress, the psychology of dementia, dementia care mapping, validation and reminiscence therapy, and using CBT skills in responding to older adults.
- Caring for people with complex and special needs: forensic, dual diagnosis, eating distress and people with personality disorders
- Ways in which suicidal thinking, substance use, self-harm, social isolation, detachment, wandering, violence, and eating behaviour can all help and hinder, physical and mental health
- Managing difficult situations that arise in clinical practice
- Managing and evaluating care delivery in hospital and community settings
- Biological, social and psychological explanations of mental health
- The role of brain dysfunction, biological changes, chemical changes and genetics on mental ill-health
- The role of physical treatments (particularly pharmacology) and their effects on the service user
- Transition to the staff nurse role, key worker and care co-ordination
- Organisation and management of care delivery
- Government targeted mental health and social care policies and strategies.
- The Change Process and Management of Change

Contact Hours: 200 hours

15% Problem Solving including Problem Based Learning
25% Key lectures
15% Skills training in laboratory, work stations, simulations
15% Seminars
10% 'Blackboard' based study
20% Workshops

Independent Study 250 hours

20% Directed reading
15% Work for problem based learning scenarios
5% Preparation for presentations
15% Identify, obtain and analyse material relating to module content
40% Assessment preparation
5% Preparation for elective placement.

Lecturer, Peers, PBL Facilitators, Clinical Placements, Clinical Supervisor/ Mentor/Facilitator/Specialists, Classroom, Seminar Room, Skills Laboratories, Access to a PC/ CD Rom/Virtual Learning Environment, Library and Learning Resource Centre, PowerPoint, TV and Video, Video Camera, Audio Tape, Flipcharts and Pens, Workbooks.

Registration as a Student Nurse
Access to Clinical Practice

Barker, P. (Ed.) (2003) Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring, London, Arnold. ISBN:0-340-81026-2
Blows, W. T. (2003) The Biological Basis of Nursing: Mental Health, London, Routledge ISBN 0-415-24854-X
Keady, J., Clarke, C and Adams, T. (Eds.) (2003) Communtity Mental Health Nursing and Dementia Care: Practice Perspectives, Buckingham, Open University Press, ISBN: 03352-11429
Newell, R. and Gournay, K. (2000) Mental Health Nursing: an evidence based approach, Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, ISBN 0-443-05873-3