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NMHS20210

Academic Year 2024/2025

Specialist Care Groups (NMHS20210)

Subject:
Nursing,Midwifery & Health Sys
College:
Health & Agricultural Sciences
School:
Nursing,Midwifery & Health Sys
Level:
2 (Intermediate)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Ms Joanna O'Neill
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

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.

In order to undertake this module, students must first, have completed stage 1 mental health modules - Foundations in Mental health Nursing A and B.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

o Identify how people within the groups identified above present and access specialist mental health services
o Discuss the most common disorders within each of the specialist care groups identified
o Examine the role of the mental health nurse in assisting patients and their carer/families within each of these specialist care groups
o Determine the nursing skills required to assess and plan care for someone who is receiving specialist mental healthcare
o Discuss the role of the nurse in caring for someone with a physical illness.

Indicative Module Content:


Eating Disorders
Forensic Mental Health nursing
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing
Substance misuse
Older adult nursing and psychiatry of later life
Intellectual Disability and mental illness
Common Physical Illness

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

40
Autonomous Student Learning

60
Lectures

24
Practical

8
Field Trip/External Visits

8
Total

140

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures,
seminars
practical 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 Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Reflective Assignment: Reflective entries on specialist care groups Week 3, Week 4, Week 8 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
12
 No
Participation in Learning Activities: Hseland certificates Week 2, Week 5, Week 7, Week 11 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
8
 No
Assignment(Including Essay): 2,000 word written assignment Week 12 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
80
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
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
Assoc Professor Timothy Frawley Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Aoife Claire MacCormac Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Ms Teresa McDonagh Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Ms Joanna O'Neill Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr SHOBHA RANI SHETTY Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Ms Corina Murphy Tutor

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 Wed 09:00 - 10:50
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 10 Wed 09:00 - 10:50
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 11 Wed 09:00 - 10:50
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 12 Wed 09:00 - 10:50
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 8 Wed 09:00 - 10:50
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