Rights Based Practice and Ethics for Mental Health Nursing
Description
This module will critically analyse the regulatory and legal issues which impact on Mental Health Nursing. The concept of rights-based practice will be critically explored including human rights and service user rights. Restrictive practices will be critically analysed, including the international and national imperative to reduce and eliminate, the use of restrictive practices, impact, and creating an environment to reduce and avoid. The concepts of autonomy and capacity, the policy context and ethical issues associated with informed consent with specific reference to Mental Health will be explored and applied to practice-based scenarios.
Ethical principles, values and virtues for practice in Mental Health Nursing will be explored and evaluated. Ethical frameworks will be considered and applied to ethical issues that arise in Mental Health Nursing with emphasis given to key policies relevant to the area.
Learning Outcomes
Critically review the content and significance of the statutory frameworks and regulatory issues which impact the professional practice of Mental Health Nursing.
Critically appraise rights-based policies (local, national and international) processes and practices which are prevalent in Mental Health Nursing.
Compare and contrast the evidence-based approaches to restrictive practices in mental health, their impact on staff and service users and the evidence supporting the reduction and elimination of these practices.
Develop an awareness of the ethical and values based issues associated with rights based care, restrictive practices and coercion in mental health care.
Critically appraise the NMBI Code of conduct and Ethics (2021) with particular appraisal of the value of hope in the recovery journey of a service user in The Mental Health Service.
Critically appraise the Ethics of Justice framework and apply it to the narrative journey of the service user.
Appraise ethical principles value in guiding practice that is non-discriminatory and prioritises the marginalised and oppressed.
Critically review contemporary views on coercion and coercive practices in Mental Health and how these impact on Mental Health Nursing practices.