Practical Training in Mental Health Nursing (7cr)

Objective

Students are able to implement multi-professional mental health nursing while taking into consideration the patient's age, growth and development stage, the requirements of ethicality and the care and service setting. Students know how to assess the resources of mental health patients and families from different cultural backgrounds and know how to support them in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Students plan, implement and evaluate interventions for mental health clients/patients and their families, who face common health changes and/or problems and/or crises. Students are competent in documentation and oral reporting. They use evidence-based interventions to help, support and counsel mental health clients/ patients and family members of all ages. Students know how to plan and safely implement and evaluate drug care for adult mental health clients/patients. Students know how to support and promote mental health patients' and families' health and ability to function. They are able to counsel and support patients and families of all ages in self-care. Students evaluate their professional competence critically from the perspectives of strenghts and development needs.

Content

Practical training in mental health nursing settings. eDrug Care Certificate. Assignments.

Qualifications

Mental Health Nursing and Addiction Nursing, drug calculations

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
Students
- do not adequately appreciate or use the knowledge base of client-centred clinical nursing
- are not adequately able to give reasons for their chosen actions in client-centred clinical nursing
-are not adequately able to apply to practice their knowledge of client-centred clinical nursing
-are not capable of adequate client-centred and safe clinical practice
-do not possess adequate decision-making skills for client-centred clinical nursing
-do not adequately take into consideration safety or ethical principles in client-centred clinical nursing
-are not prepared to develop client-centred clinical nursing

Materials

will be announced in the course implementation plan.