Author: kerryb1

SMHS Outpatient Staff Information Flyer
Year 2A Bachelor of Nursing Students

Aim: To enable students to apply nursing knowledge and skills in a culturally safe manner with people who experience altered mental health or addiction

KEY DEU MESSAGES FOR ALL STAFF WORKING
ALONGSIDE STUDENTS:
All staff in the DEU work with the students and share the
responsibilities of socialisation & teaching of the students.
Students will seek your feedback on their practice, please be honest with them.
All staff need to openly communicate with the CLN (Clinical Liaison Nurse) & ALN (Academic Liaison Nurse) on how the students are going.
CLN’s/ALN’s are responsible for completing all student assessments, hence why providing your ongoing student feedback is so important!
Staff should encourage peer teaching between students.
You are an amazing resource for the students, enjoy working with them!
DEU Key Contacts:
CLN Inpatient
CLN Outpatient
ALN

Guidelines for Expectations of Students During
Community Placement
(note a 4 week inpatient rotation with differing guidelines will
occur during the 6 week placement)
Purpose:
To observe the role of the mental health nurse in the community
Gain an understanding that service users can live well in the community in the presence or absence of mental illness
Gain an understanding of how mental health and addiction system works and how community services fit within the system
Recognise that service users and their families are part of wider community and it is important that they are supported to develop or maintain connections within these communities
Develop knowledge of services, resources and organisations that are available to service users in the community
Observe how community mental health nurses use mental health promotion principles in their work
Learning Experiences:
Home Visit
Attend an MDT meeting
Observe an interview
Visit another community service or organisation
Spend time with another member of the MDT
Attend a group

For further information go to the DEU website
http://www.cdhb.health.nz/Hospitals-Services/Health-Professionals/DEU/Pages/default.aspx

The CDHB and CPIT would like to take this opportunity to thank you for sharing your specialist knowledge with the nursing students and making this valuable contribution to the future nursing workforce.
For further information please contact:
CPIT Course Leader
Melanie.Lienert-Brown@cpit.ac.nz
CDHB DEU Nurse Educator
Jacinda.King@cdhb.health.nz
CPIT DEU Working Group Member
Deborah.Cook@cpit.ac.nz

17/03/2016