Mental Health Nursing - 4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur)
Junior Fresh (1st Year)
Mental Health Nursing students only
The aim of this module is to provide an introduction to the concepts of mental health, distress and illness and to provide an overview of how mental health nurses can work with the person to better understand their experiences and to plan care collaboratively. The module will consider various understandings of mental health and illness informed by a variety of perspectives.
Mental Health Nursing students only
The aim of this module is to explore the recovery approach within mental health practice and the skills involved in the formation and maintenance of effective therapeutic relationships with individuals, families and carers.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to introduce the principles of science underpinning the understanding of the human body, and explain the anatomy and physiology of the systems of the body to provide a basis for understanding altered function and healthcare practice.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to discuss the roles of the nurse/midwife in health promotion and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment and to introduce the nurse/midwife to the core clinical skills required to practice safely in the clinical environment.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to facilitate an understanding of the social sciences so as to underpin a competent knowledge base for nursing, midwifery and healthcare practice.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to introduce the student to the role of the nurse/midwife by exploring core concepts underlying nursing/midwifery practice, with particular reference to law, ethics, professional practice, communication, values and attitudes and lifelong learning.
Senior Fresh (2nd Year)
Mental Health Nursing students only
The aim of this module is to introduce the concepts and models of care related to community mental health and to build on the knowledge and application of relational, recovery orientated and psychotherapeutic skills and their use with clients and their families /carers across the lifespan.
Mental Health Nursing students only
The aim of this module is to provide students with an introduction to key knowledge and principles underpinning physical health and wellbeing and psychopharmacology in contemporary mental health nursing practice.
Mental Health Nursing students only
The aim of this module is to provide students with the opportunity to continue to develop their core nursing practice skills and knowledge and to develop the necessary knowledge and skills. This module builds on the learning in practice that has taken place in year one. In year two students are expected to develop their core nursing practice skills and knowledge. Students are expected to rationalise practice, display an understanding of theory underpinning practice as well as begin to appraise their practice in a critical manner. They are expected to display the ability to access salient research and evidence that support practices, procedures, policies and experiences.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to explore contemporary theoretical, legal, and ethical perspectives that inform the professional practice of nursing and midwifery in the provision of quality care for diverse populations in healthcare across the lifespan.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to enable students to acquire knowledge necessary to underpin the delivery of nursing and midwifery care in practice.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
Elective Modules
Global Health Engagement
This module will provide nursing and midwifery students with the opportunity to develop the Trinity Graduate Attributes through undertaking a global theoretical or volunteering (self-funded) or research internship experience, within the context of their Profession. The module is designed for students who are interested in exploring different cultures and gaining a global healthcare perspective. The module is self-funded.
Perspectives on Deafness
This module introduces students to the range of ways in which deafness and Deaf people are categorised – by medical personnel, by hearing people, and by the Deaf community.
Statistics for Healthcare Professionals
The World Health Organisation, the United Nations, the Department of Health and Children and all major international and national organisations have recognised the need for healthcare professions to base treatments, intervention, policy and planning on sound evidence. Part of this evidence is derived from the analysis and compilation of appropriate statistics. In today’s ever changing professional environment it is essential that healthcare professionals are comfortable working with data and deriving and interpreting basic statistics. This module aims to stimulate your interest in, and knowledge and appreciation of healthcare statistics. It will provide you with some key transferable skills that will be useful in all professions. The emphasis in the course will be on applying the techniques to healthcare data and on understanding and interpreting results in real life data sets.
Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
This module introduces participants to the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ and national identity/citizenship locating ‘race’ within social, economic and political relations and situating ‘race’ and racism in relation to other divisions such as class, religion and gender. Issues specific to Irish society will include the Irish Traveller community and the links between racialisation and the asylum/migration processes. Specifically the course addresses issues of race and ethnicity as they relate to nursing practice and the Irish health profession.
Contribution to Society
The overall aim of this module is to provide students with an opportunity to actively contribute to society in a voluntary capacity in an area that is not directly related to nursing practice. Students will plan the type of placement, its location and the key skills and activities they will focus on achieving during their chosen placement. Organising and achieving the aims of this placement is expected to encourage students to develop and control an aspect of their education they feel contributes to their personal and professional development.
Junior Sophister (3rd Year)
Mental Health Nursing students only
This module has been developed to build on previous learning of the bio-psychosocial health needs of clients with enduring mental health problems by integrating new knowledge and skills, which aim to assist clients and their families, manage and assist mental health nursing students enhance their knowledge of risk assessment and management when working with users of mental health services.
Emphasis will be placed on the nursing role in concept of recovery, self-experience, the role of psychological and social interventions, cognitive behaviour therapy in psychosis and the application of individual and family interventions. The module will also introduce students to the general principles of risk assessment and management as applied to mental health, evidence based practice in the area of risk and the complexity of managing risk.
The module will also examine ethical concerns in relation to negative attitudes and organisational practices that can impact on serious health problem management and increase risk, paternalism and autonomy, and service user input into risk and assessment and management.
Mental Health Nursing students only
The aim of this module is to introduce the student to specialist client groups and to provide them with the knowledge and skills necessary to care for them. The specialist groups that will be discussed are – Young people, Forensic, Maternal, Intellectual Disability and the Older persons’. Many people in these groups present with multiple and complex needs. Hence, central to the module is the concept of needs and diversity amongst individuals and how this impacts on nursing and health care. Contemporary issues within each specialist client group will be addressed. It endeavours to give the student the opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of the key issues, skills and competencies required as a mental health nurse in these areas.
Mental Health Nursing students only
This module builds on the learning in practice that has taken place in years one and two of the programme. In year three nursing students are expected to develop their core practice skills and knowledge. They are expected to rationalise practice, display an understanding of theory underpinning practice as well as begin to appraise their practice in a critical manner. Students are expected to display the ability to access salient research and evidence that support practices, procedures, policies and experiences. Exposure to pathophysiological conditions will begin the process of questioning practices and skills as well as reasoning and confirming physiological progression and disease prevention. While under the supervision of a registered nurse, students are encouraged to practice in a more autonomous manner, demonstrating the ability to plan, implement and critically evaluate care.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to build on students’ prior knowledge and experience to improve their understanding and awareness of key professional concepts of self-awareness, clinical Judgement, evidence based practice; value based professional practice, decision making, team work and nursing/midwifery management.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
Elective Modules
Patient Safety & Human Factors in Healthcare
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the concept of patient safety, human factors and how human factors can impact on healthcare environments.
An Appreciation of Contemporary Poetry in English (Walcott, Heaney, Montague, Murray)
This module offers an introduction to the four poets and an overview of the significance of their work. It will provide students with opportunities to enhance key transferable skills that will be useful in all walks of life after college, such as understanding social, cultural and historical diversity.
Contribution to Society
The overall aim of this module is to provide students with an opportunity to actively contribute to society in a voluntary capacity in an area that is not directly related to nursing practice.
Digital Healthcare
The aim of this module is to introduce students to best practices in the development and application of digital health (and associated assistive technologies) to chronic disease management and care, including behaviour change and self-management. Areas covered include: An introduction to the digital health; Exploring the digital health technology landscape; Understanding the role and use of healthcare data; Design thinking and digital health; Using digital health technologies for home-based chronic disease self-management; Patient engagement and behavioural change with digital health technologies; Ethics and digital health; Understanding digital integrated care; The future of digital health (e.g. artificial intelligence, transferring and scaling digital health technologies).
Nutrition and Wellness
The Nutrition and Wellness module introduces students to the role that food and nutrition play in health and disease. Students will study a variety of diverse nutrition related topics from both a national and international perspective and consider nutrition across the lifespan.
Understanding Drug and Alcohol Addiction
The aim of this module is to provide an overview of the historical development of drug use in society and approaches to addiction treatment, from detoxification to harm reduction and addiction recovery. The module covers the whole lifespan, from young to older people. You will discover how to safeguard the health and wellbeing of people using substances and explore the role of family members.
Global Health Engagement
This module will provide nursing and midwifery students with the opportunity to undertake a global theoretical (online COIL) or volunteering experience (self-funded), within the context of their profession.
Senior Sophister (4th Year)
Mental Health Nursing students only
This module has two placements. The first placement allows students complete their learning at supervised level in preparation for the independent level of practice required during the second placement the Internship.
In Internship, students engage in supervised practice as employees of the health service. Students begin to engage in independent supervised practice as nursing and multidisciplinary team members. The practice exposure and experiences that students receive engenders in them a level of confidence and competence which will serve to consolidate previous learning and facilitate the development of reasoned decision-making skills and practice in a safe supervised environment.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to help students to apply current research evidence to enhance clinical practice and equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to complete a capstone project relevant to their practice.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to consolidate and further develop nursing and midwifery students’ prior theoretical and clinical learning in preparation for post-registration clinical and professional practice.