Graduate Certificate in Mental Health

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health graduates will be able to:

1. Utilise evidence based knowledge and skills in the planning of respectful, safe, effective and holistic nursing care for the client with acute mental health illness
2. Integrate evidence based models of decision making with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia National Decision Making Framework and the Mental Health Act (1996) in the planning of patient centred care within the acute mental health context
3. Use evidence based models of clinical reasoning to facilitate clear effective communication and confident negotiation skills
4. Harness interprofessional collaboration to provide excellent patient care and achieve common goals
5. Model responsible and professional behaviours to colleagues and students in order to provide safe, culturally appropriate and socially just care within a medico-legal framework for acutely mentally ill patients
6. Deconstruct one's own biases as a means of applying and building professional expertise in the care of acutely mentally ill patients
7. Reflect on practice to facilitate awareness and knowledge of one's own cognition in order to establish a mechanism for lifelong learning
8. Conduct research retrieval and enquiry to debate contemporary mental health challenges on the global stage, incorporating philosophical, technical and social justice perspectives

• NURS4025 Interpersonal Communication

Plus three of the below electives:

• NURS5006 Professional Role Development
• NURS6007 Introduction to Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
• NURS4027 Role of the Mental Health Practitioner in an Acute Setting
• NURS5004 Advanced Contemporary Mental Health Practice 1
• NURS5005 Advanced Contemporary Mental Health Practice 2

Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.