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Mental Health Nursing and Nursing in Drug Abuse (4cr)

Code: THO5F4-3001

General information


Enrollment
02.09.2017 - 01.10.2017
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
02.10.2017 - 31.01.2018
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4 cr
Local portion
4 cr
Mode of delivery
Contact learning
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing
Teachers
Katri Hemminki
Leena Katajamäki
Miisa Lamminen
Course
THO5F4

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 common psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. They use evidence-based interventions to help, support and counsel mental health patients and family members of all ages. Students know how to support and promote mental health patients' and families' health and ability to function. They are able to support mental health patients and family members of all ages in crisis situations. Students know how to encounter violence in patients and families. They are able to counsel and support patients and families of all ages in self-care and rehabilitation. Students make use of current psychiatric knowledge.

Content

Health promotion, supporting self-care and rehabilitation in mental health nursing. Essential nursing interventions (FinCC) in mental health nursing. The national documentation model. Effica. The impact of the client's age, sex, cultural background, growth and develoment stage and the impact of the care or service environment and ethicality on mental health nursing. Mental health nursing, rehabilitation and counselling. Nursing, rehabilitation and counselling of patients and families in crisis. Multiprofessionalism in mental health nursing. Self-care counselling for mental health patients and families. Safe care environment. Occupational safety. Supervision of work. Psychiatry.

Materials

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Teaching methods

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Exam schedules

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Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Client-Centred Clinical Competence during the middle phase of the studies.

Qualifications

No previous studies required

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