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

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

Hämäläinen, Kaisu;Kanerva, Anne;Kuhanen, Carita;Schubert, Carla;Seuri, Tarja. 2017. Mielenterveyshoitotyö. 5. uudistettu painos. Helsinki. Sanoma Pro.

Teaching methods

Lectures, simulation, case studies, mobile and online learning, seminar, independent study

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

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