Study Guide

Objective

The student understands the stages of the crisis and is able to support patients and family members in crisis situations. The student knows the collaborative actors in crisis situations. The student understands how to maintain physical and mental safety and how to maintain and promote his/her own mental well-being in nursing. The student is able to reflect and develop skills that are needed in crisis work as well as in work related health.

Content

Patient's view: Stages of the crisis and nursing interventions for patients who have faced a life crisis situation. Violence in close relationships (not just in families or in intimate partnership). Documentation and legislation. Ethics in close relationship violence situations. Abuse of children or aged person and nursing interventions and collaborative actors. Child protection services, statement of concern about aged person care. Crisis situations in various nursing environments.

Coping in nursing work: Main concepts: physical and mental work health and work safety. Promoting psychological resources. The use of work supervision, debriefing and defusing, PTSD, emotional burn out, surrogate traumatization, individual's and group's resilience and its meaning in work related coping. Individuals own and working community's responsibility in promoting work related health and effective methods to maintain work related health.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail=0
- The student does not participate actively in lessons (min. 80%).
- The student does not participate in discussions.
- The student does not search information of the course topics.
- In the assignment the student does not reflect the main concepts of the course.
- The student does not make assignments for the course.
- The student does not achieve the learning objectives of the course.
- In the assignment the student does not follow SeAMK instructions for written work.