Mental Health for Practice (9064.3)

Required texts

Required Text (available on short loan):

Hungerford, C.,Hodgson, D., Bostwick, R., Clancy, R., Murphy, G., de Jong, G., Ngune, I.  (2018). Mental Health Care: An Introduction for Health Professionals. Brisbane, Wiley.

Recommended Texts: 

Edward, K., Munro, I., Welch, A., Robins, A. (2014). Mental Health Nursing: Dimensions of Praxis. South Melbourne. Oxford University Press.

Evans, K., Nizette, D. & O'Brien, J. (2017).  Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 4th edition. Chatswood, NSW. Mosby Elsevier.

Happell, B., Cowin, L., Roper,C., Lakeman, R. & Cox, L. (2013). Introducing Mental Health Nursing: A Service User Approach., 2nd ed. Crows Nest, NSW, Allen &Unwin.

Moxham, L, et al (2018) Contemporary Psychiatric-mental health nursing: partnerships in care. Melbourne, Vic. Pearson Australia. 

Moxam, L., Dwyer, T., Reid-Serl, K., Robson, P. & Broadbent. (2013). Nursing Student's Adult Mental Health Clinical Survival Guide. Frenchs Forest. Pearson Australia.

Perrin, R. (2009). Pocket guide to APA Style (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

Procter, N., Hamer, H., McGarry, D., Wilson, R. & Froggatt, T. (2017) Mental Health: A person-centred approach.  2nd edition. Port Melbourne, Vic. Cambridge University Press. 

These texts are available for purchase from the Co-Op Bookstore (who offer price matching), past nursing students, and are available for loan from the University Library.

Tutorial Reading List

A detailed tutorial reading list will be provided on Canvas

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

The following general guidelines for the presentation of the written assignment must be observed.

The essay assessment item will be submitted online via the Canvas site. 

Submission presentation: Word document ONLY.  Other formats will not be accepted for marking. 

The first page of the assignment submission should include the following information-

• Title page
• Student Identification number
• Assessment name
• Word count (excluding refernce list) 

Referencing requirements: Please refere to the Acedemic Skills Program webstie for information on acknowledging sources for acedemic writing.

The discpline of nursing reqiures students to use APA 6th edition referencing style.

• Title page, student number, name of unit
• Use Word only do not submitt in any other format
• A Times New Roman Suite Font size 12
• 1.5 or Double line spacing 
• A left margin of 2.5cm on each page
• All pages need to include a footer with your student ID number and the page number
• Presented professionally in an academic style. Do not use pre-formatted templates or graphic title pages
• The paper must be expressed clearly and succinctly with correct grammatical expression and spelling
• Use a variety of credible sources to support the discussion, analysis, debate (it is expected that students use database seearches to obtain recent, refereed manuscripts)
• Adhere to presentation requirements described
• APA (6th ed) referencing style must be used.

Special assessment requirements

Unit Completion: 

To obtain a pass grade in this unit:

• All assessment items must be attempted, and
• an overall aggregate mark of 50% obtained. 

Extensions and Moderation

Extensions

Students can apply for an extension to the submission due date for an assessment item through extenuating, evidenced circumstances (specific details are found in the Assessment Procedures).

Extensions must be applied for before the due date. Documentary evidence (e.g. medical certificate) will be expected for an extension to be granted, however this will not guarantee that the application will be successful. The Unit Convener or relevant Program Director will decide whether to grant an extension and the length of the extension.

An Assignment Extension Form is available from the Student Forms page.

Students must submit the request for extenuating circumstances to the Unit Convener at the earliest possible opportunity, no later than 5 working days before the scheduled due date of the assessment.

Late submission of assignments without an approved extension will result in a penalty of 5% reduced marks from the total available per calendar day late. An assessment submitted over 7 days late without an extension will not be accepted.

For deferred examinations and deferred OSCE/OSCA, applications (together with any supporting evidence and a declaration by the student affirming that they have no knowledge of the content of the initial examination) must be lodged within 3 days of the scheduled examinations.

Intra-semester deferred examination and OSCE/OSCA deferral applications must be sent directly to the Unit Convener. Final exam deferral applications must be sent directly to the Timetabling and Examinations Office.

Moderation

All units undergo internal moderation procedures to review assessments, content, learning outcomes and structure. Marking standardisation techniques are used to ensure that different markers within the unit can achieve maximum agreement across grade bands using samples of randomly selected student work. 

1.      All assessment activities which result in grades of High Distinction (85% or more) will be marked by two different assessors.
2.      All assessment activities which result in a Fail (NX) grade of (40-49%) will be blind marked by two different assessors.
3.      All assessment activities which result in grades less than 40% will be marked by one assessor.
4.      Any failed piece of assessment that leads to an overall fail grade for the unit will be marked by a second assessor.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Participation requirements

None

Required IT skills

Students will require basic computer literacy skills to participate in this unit.

This unit may involve online meetings in real time using the "Blackboard Collaborate" tool. Blackboard Collaborate provides a virtual classroom or meeting room where you can communicate in real time with your lecturer and other students. To participate verbally, rather than just typing you will need a microphone and for best audio quality we recommend a microphone and speaker headset. For more information and to test your computer, please visit the LearnOnline STUDENT HELP and click on the link to Blackboard Collaborate. 

Work placement, internships or practicums

None

• Semester 2, 2018, On-Campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (180319)