2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS1128 Mental Health Nursing: Applying the Key Concepts of Health and Wellbeing

40 creditsClass Size: 80

Module manager: Emily Hollas
Email: e.hollas@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Dec to 31 May View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

Programme entry criteria

This module is mutually exclusive with

HECS1126	Adult Nursing: Applying the Key Concepts of Health and Wellb
HECS1127	Child Nursing: Applying the Key Concepts of Health and Wellb

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

On your first assessed placement you will practice in accordance with the recognised professional, ethical and legal frameworks that guide nursing practice and recognise your own limitations. You will apply the biopsychosocial-spiritual model to nursing in order to maximise the mental health and wellbeing of people and their families and develop fundamental clinical skills. You will work in partnership with others, including teams, ensuring equality and diversity are respected. You will use a range of evidence which inform practice, judgement and clinical decisions, considering the strengths and limitations of the evidence base.

Objectives

Students will develop their knowledge of working with people living with mental health problems in preparation for their first assessed placement.

Consideration will be given to working in ways to enable people to achieve their potential and maximise their mental health and wellbeing.

Students will further develop the skills to enable them to engage in evidence based mental health nursing practice.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students will be able to:

1. Explain the professional, ethical and legal frameworks that guide mental health nursing practice

2. Apply the biopsychosocial-spiritual model to mental health nursing in order to maximise the mental health and wellbeing of people and their families

3. Work in partnership with others including teams ensuring equality and diversity are respected.

4. Use a range of evidence which informs mental health nursing practice, judgements and clinical decisions and consider the strengths and limitations of the evidence base.

Skills outcomes
Please see skills mapping.

Syllabus

This is a field specific integrated module that combines 4 strands central to mental health nursing practice: professional practice; applied practice; the biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health and wellbeing; and evidence-based practice. Students will build on the work from the previous module.

Professional Practice:
- NMC The Code and its application to practice including working within own level of competence
- Safeguarding and escalating concerns
- Reflection on/in practice
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Teamwork and the role of the interdisciplinary team
- Developing resilience in practice
- Recognising interpersonal conflict in practice

Applied Practice:
- Interpersonal and communication skills, working with others including reporting and exchanging information
- Medication management: including administration processes
- Assessment, care planning and record keeping
- Clinical skills relevant to field and year of practice 

Biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health and wellbeing:
- Biological– physiological basis of health and wellbeing in relation to the fundamentals of nutrition, senses, urinary, musculoskeletal and gastrointestinal systems
- Psychological - introduction to coping and resilience in relation to others, developmental psychology, 'self' development, stress, stressors and coping
- Social - families and family systems, social networks, environments of care
- Spiritual - needs and beliefs

Evidence Based practice:
- Certainty and uncertainty in health and wellbeing
- Fundamentals of judgement and decision making
- Incorporating people's experience into decisions about care
- Types of research designs: differentiate between qualitative and quantitative approaches, hierarchy of evidence
- Introduction to health economics

Field Specific Content

Mental Health:
- Psychotropic medicines side effect monitoring
- Interpersonal dynamics of a therapeutic relationship (including empathy)
- Assessing mental health
- Mental health and illness as a continuum
- Issues of diagnosis in mental health
- Decisions, consent, capacity in mental health contexts (e.g. dementia care)
- Collaborating with others when planning care in a mental health context
- Adult BLS
- Understanding the holistic needs and experiences of service users, carers and families
- Introduction to concepts of risk and risk assessment
- Prevalence, manifestation and causation of mental health problems in children and adults with learning disabilities and/or autism

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Clinical Practice	424	1.00	424.00
Lecture	7	1.00	7.00
Practical	5	2.00	10.00
Tutorial	14	2.00	28.00
Independent online learning hours			50.00
Private study hours			105.00
Total Contact hours			469.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			624.00

Private study

The module will adopt a blended learning approach. Students will be provided with learning resources both to support face to face sessions and promote independent learning and curiosity. A blend of independent and group learning tasks will be undertaken during this module.

Students will be expected to undertake pre-reading and come to sessions, both theoretical and practical, prepared to apply their knowledge to a variety of different scenarios and discussions.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will complete an online formative Medicine Management Package within the first 4 weeks of the module. This will enable them to practice finding information related to the medicine management process and gain feedback on their answers. This will help prepare students to complete the summative MMP

During the module students will be able to submit a plan or draft of their essay and receive feedback from their named academic supervisor.

Verbal feedback will be given to students throughout the module during practical and theoretical sessions. Students will also receive ongoing feedback from their practice supervisors and practice assessors during their practice placement.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1500 words	75.00
Practical	Medicine Managemen tPackage	25.00
Portfolio	Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD) (Pass/Fail)	0.00
In-course Assessment	FORMATIVE: Ongoing formative feedback throughout the practice placement (MYEPAD)	0.00
In-course Assessment	FORMATIVE: Submission of plan or draft of essay	0.00
In-course Assessment	FORMATIVE: Medicine Management Package	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

There is no compensation between elements. This module has theoretical and practice components. All components need to be passed and there is no compensation between elements.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 16/05/2024

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