Overview

This unit provides students with the knowledge and skills to apply the nursing principles of practice to the nursing process in forensic mental health settings. The unit covers each aspect of the nursing process and provides students with the ability to connect the principles of forensic mental health nursing to assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate effective nursing interventions to improve the outcomes of forensic patients, both in secure settings and in the community

Requisites

Prerequisites
FBS80016 Forensic Mental Health Nursing Practice

Rule

Enrolment in FBS80016 as a single unit must be approved by the Course Director
OR
Admission to the GD-FMHN Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health Nursing

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Conduct a nursing assessment of a forensic mental health patient
  • Formulate a nursing diagnosis in forensic mental health contexts
  • Plan a process of action to address forensic mental health patient need
  • Implement a plan of action by appropriate selection of nursing interventions
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of a nursing intervention in a forensic setting

Teaching methods

Hawthorn Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Workshop
1.00 12 weeks 12
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Various
4.00 12 weeks 48
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
7.00 12 weeks 84
TOTAL144

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 35% 1,2,3,4 
EssayIndividual 40% 3,4,5 
PresentationIndividual 25% 1,2 

Content

  • Forensic mental health nursing assessment
  • Forensic mental health nursing diagnosis
  • Planning a forensic mental health intervention
  • Implementing a forensic mental health intervention
  • Evaluating a forensic mental health intervention

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.