Overview

• Mental health services in relation to society • Analysis of local and national mental health policies • Incorporating user voice into practice • Supporting peer support • Promoting recovery beyond crisis • Recovery networks and colleges • Supporting capability and resilience across the lifespan • Working across a mixed economy of care • Evaluating care • Maintaining safety and risk enablement • Ethics and risk enablement across the lifespan • Co-production of care • Challenging professional asymmetry • Responding to mental health crisis • Team and multi-professional working • Prioritising workload and collaboration • Approaches to management of mental health • Dementia care mapping and service evaluation • Managing changing services • Managing therapeutic milieu • Psychopharmacology • Supporting best practice in shared decision making • Professional and interdisciplinary boundaries in practice across complex settings • Responding appropriately to poor practice • Safeguarding vulnerable groups across the lifespan • Wicked problems and waves of consequence • Development of mental health nursing services • Decarceration • Public health and healthy communities

Learning Outcomes

• Critically analyse appropriate models/frameworks of health and wellbeing in the context of mental health nursing practice.

• Critically evaluate mental health nursing in different contexts, with cognisance of culture, diversity, groups and the individual across the lifespan

• Critique and evaluate appropriate theories of communication within the practice of mental health nursing for effective working relationships.

• Demonstrate the ability to recognise the learning needs of others and facilitate their learning.

• Demonstrate the ability to reflect in-action and on-action and provide evidence of how this supports the process of critical thinking, decision making and the evaluation of future learning needs.

• Implement and evaluate the knowledge and skills required for safe, compassionate & effective mental health nursing practice.