Mental State Examination Workbook for Nursing and Midwifery

This workbook provides an opportunity to develop and demonstrate knowledge of processes associated with assessing a person’s mental state in different health care contexts, and supporting the person to navigate to a place of recovery. The workbook contains 10 questions about mental health assessment, and strategies to work with people with mental illness. The workbook responses will be assessed based on the use of evidence to interpret and analyze the mental state assessment, including an assessment of risk, interpretation and use of evidence to plan care to support the mental health needs of the person in diverse health settings, critical appraisal of principles of equity, rights and access, information literacy skills, and written presentation including structure, grammar, application of referencing protocol Harvard.