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Unit Summary
Pre-requisites
Unit aim
Strengthens students’ clinical leadership skills in implementing the available evidence based knowledge on a chosen topic directly relating to mental health and/or mental illness. There is an emphasis on leading the translation and application of knowledge to clinical practice settings.
Unit content
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One specialist topic from mental health and or illness perspectives and consideration of how practice can be reformed:
- Addiction in mental health contexts;
- Lived experience of mental illness in the workforce;
- Suicide: drivers and mitigation;
- Psychological trauma from childhood into adulthood.
- Gaps and resonances between research evidence and practice.
- Change processes within mental health contexts.
- Management of the translation of research into clinical practice.
- Clinical leadership in mental health.
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
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| 1 | critically contrast the findings from the literature with that of current practice and /or policy in clinical settings |
| 2 | apply and integrate evidence based knowledge into clinical practice settings |
| 3 | identify and apply mental health specific barriers and enablers to successfully changing practice and/or policy |
| 4 | explain how clinical leadership in mental health will influence the translation and application from literature to practice |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically contrast the findings from the literature with that of current practice and /or policy in clinical settings
- apply and integrate evidence based knowledge into clinical practice settings
- identify and apply mental health specific barriers and enablers to successfully changing practice and/or policy
- explain how clinical leadership in mental health will influence the translation and application from literature to practice
Prescribed texts
- Stanley, D., 2017, Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare: Values into Action , 2nd Edition, Wiley. ISBN: 9781119253785 (online).
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.