NRS195 Psychosocial Nursing (8)

CSU Discipline Area: Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health (NRMIH)

Duration: One session

Abstract:

The aim of the subject is to provide students with beginning knowledge and awareness of models of interpersonal and group communication strategies, and of counselling skills in primary secondary and tertiary levels of prevention and health care, across the lifespan. Students also study culturally specific issues in psychosocial nursing and learn how to establish, maintain and end therapeutic alliances.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations

Session 2
Internal	Albury-Wodonga
Internal	Bathurst
Internal	Dubbo
Internal	Wagga Wagga

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: NRS195

Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Enrolment restrictions:

Bachelor of Nursing
Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic)

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

1. be able to demonstrate understanding of the importance of the therapeutic alliance in psychosocial nursing.
2. be able to recognise the effects of their own style of communication in a therapeutic situation.
3. be able to examine different theoretical approaches to counselling.
4. be able to identify individual and group techniques that can be utilised by the nurse.
5. be able to demonstrate understanding of the influence of the environment on therapeutic communication practise counselling within an ethical framework.
6. be able to describe the impact of grief and loss.
7. be able to identify stressors and appropriate stress management strategies with a range of clients, including clinicians.
8. be able to apply, with direction, the principles and concepts of psychosocial nursing specific to nursing contexts at a beginning level.
9. be able to demonstrate understanding of the fundamental principles of effective communication and the factors that affect interpersonal and therapeutic communication.
10. be able to demonstrate understanding of the factors that underpin effective oral communication, and demonstrate, with direction, developing oral communication skills.
11. be able to demonstrate understanding of the significance of documentation to safe nursing practice, and demonstrate, with direction, clear and accurate documentation in line with legal and ethical requirements in the psychosocial nursing setting.
12. be able to demonstrate understanding and apply, at a beginning level, the principles of formal academic writing.
13. be able to demonstrate competence in the use of technology to aid research and present information in a professional manner, consistent with organisational requirements.

Syllabus:

The subject will cover the following topics:

1. Interpersonal communication in primary, secondary and tertiary settings
(a) Influencing factors; environment, context, perception
(b) Genuineness, positive regard, empathy, clarity, assertiveness
(c) Mental health promotion

2. Establishing, maintaining and ending therapeutic alliances
(a) Orientation, working, termination, resistance, transference
(b) Counter-transference, boundary violations

3. Therapeutic communication and counselling skills
(a) Communicating with older adults
(b) Communicating with children and adolescents
(c) Difficult clients
(d) Difficult co-workers
(e) Models of counselling

4. Psychosocial interventions with individuals, families and communities in primary, secondary and tertiary settings
(a) Behavioural techniques
(b) Cognitive techniques

5. The sociocultural mental health context

6. Stress and stress management techniques used with clients and nurses
(a) Adaptive and maladaptive responses to stress
(b) Stress vulnerability

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