NMHS20210 Specialist Care Groups

Academic Year 2020/2021

Indicative Module Description:
The aim of this module is to prepare students for a range of diverse specialist practice placements including, mental healthcare needs of children/adolescents, older people, patients with forensic needs, substance misuse and eating disorders.
In addition the nursing care needs of patients with physical illness will be addressed. Attention will also focus upon physical illness (in the absence of a diagnosed mental illness) and the care and treatment of such illness without an existing mental health problem. This will help prepare students for placement in a general hospital setting.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Indicative Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Identify how the people within the groups identified above present and access specialist mental health services
Describe the services that exist in Ireland and abroad for these care groups
Discuss the most common disorders within each of the specialist care groups identified
Discuss the role of the psychiatric nurse in caring for patients within each of these specialist care groups
Demonstrate the skills required to assess and plan care for someone who is receiving specialist mental healthcare
Discuss the role of the nurse in caring for someone with a physical illness
Demonstrate the skills required to care for someone with a physical illness
Apply nursing skills related to interpersonal communication with individuals, groups and families in each of the groups identified

Indicative Module Content:

Common physical illnesses
Eating Disorders
Forensic Mental Health nursing
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing
Substance misuse
Older adult nursing and psychiatry of later life
Dual diagnosis - Intellectual Disability and mental illness

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Practical

8
Field Trip/External Visits

8
Specified Learning Activities

40
Autonomous Student Learning

60
Total

140
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Teaching will be a mixture of lectures, seminars and practical lab work 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Equivalents:
Psych Nurs (Spec Care Groups) (NURS20210)


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: 2,000 word written assignment discussing the role of the nurse in delivering care to a service user(s)/family/carers in a defined specialist area as per assignment details in Brightspace. Week 12 n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Reading list NMHS20210 Psychiatric Nursing Specialist Care Groups 2019-2020

Ahern, C., Bieling, P., McKinnon, M., McNeely, H. and Langstaff, K. (2016) ‘A Recovery-Oriented Care Approach Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Newly Built Mental Health Facility’, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, 54(2), pp. 39-48.

Stringfellow, A., Evans, N. and Evans, A.M. (2018) ‘Understanding the impact of eating disorders: using the reflecting team as a learning strategy for students’, British Journal of Nursing, 27(3), pp.117-121.

Maguire, T., Daffem, M., Bowe, S. J. and McKenna, B. (2017) ‘Risk assessment and subsequent nursing interventions in a
forensic mental health inpatient setting: Associations and impact on aggressive behavior’, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27. pp. 971-982.

Malone, V., Harrison, R. and Daker-White, G. (2018) ‘Mental health service user and staff perspectives on tobacco addiction and smoking cessation: A meta-synthesis of published qualitative studies’, Journal of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 25, pp. 270-282.

Scott, M. (2017) ‘Let’s carry on improving care’, Community Practitioner

Weise, J., Fisher, K. R. and Trollor, J. N. (2017) ‘What makes generalist mental health professionals effective when working with people with an intellectual disability? A family member and support person perspective’, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 31, P.413-422.

Zhang, J., Xu, Z., Zhao, K., Chen, T., Ye, X., Shen, Z., Wu, Z., Zhang, J., Shen, X. and Li, S. (2018) ‘Sleep Habits, Sleep Problems, Sleep Hygiene, and Their Associations with Mental Health Problems Among Adolescents’, Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurse Association, 24(3), P. 223-234.
Name Role
Mrs Sandra Connell Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Aoife Claire MacCormac Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Ms Joanna O'Neill Lecturer / Co-Lecturer