Unit Code: NUR543

Unit Name: Psychosocial Aspects of Nursing

Description: The course introduces the student to contemporary concepts of lifespan developmental psychology or the study of how and why people change overtime as well as how and why they remain the same from the conception stage through the aging process and their influences on health and nursing. The course is presented with an interdisciplinary perspectives focusing on the cognitive, psychosocial, psychosexual, moral, emotional and sociocultural aspects of human development. The course also addresses the social environment and its impact on human development. Social theorists discuss the structure of society and addressing issues that positively supports human development as well as issues that deter human development. The impact of ethnicity, gender inequality, cultural factors, politics and the issue of classing people is addressed. The emphasis is placed on the concepts of culture, belief systems, health and caring, and how these concepts affect the nursing care delivery system.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Discuss the psychosocial and human development concepts and the history of life stages in human development. 2. Discuss the psychosocial impacts on human development & its impact & influences on health & nursing. 3. Discuss the psychoanalytic theories of human development. 4. Discuss the psychoanalytic theories of human development. 5. Discuss the social constructivist theories in human development: their application to Fijian cultural context. 6. Discuss the social perspectives of health: conceptual framework. 7. Discuss the context of health: social constructs of health & ill health impacts on health. 8. Discuss the prenatal stages in human development: attachment, social relationships & the family. 9. Discuss the issues of developmental psychopathology, The final challenge: death & dying. 10. Demonstrate knowledge of human development to nursing practice.

Prerequisite: NUR511, NUR521, NUR541 & NUR542

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 2