Mental Health and Substance Abuse Nursing (7cr)
Code: 7K00CT83-3006
General information
- Enrolment period
- 11.06.2018 - 12.08.2018
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.08.2018 - 21.10.2018
- Implementation has ended.
- Credits
- 7 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Nursing
- Campus
- TAMK Main Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Nursing
- Teachers
- Jussi Savolainen
- Hanna Viitala
- Irmeli Pekkinen
- Anne Kivimäki
- Person in charge
- Anne Kivimäki
- Small groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 13 . Open UAS : 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 13 . Open UAS : 0.)
- Pienryhmä 3 (Size: 13 . Open UAS : 0.)
- Small groups
- Pienryhmä 1
- Pienryhmä 2
- Pienryhmä 3
- Course
- 7K00CT83
Objectives (course unit)
The student
- is able to promote mental health and prevent substance abuse problems in different environments;
- has professional competence in meeting patients and families with mental health or substance abuse problems;
- is able to plan, implement and evaluate in collaboration with the patient or his/her family;
- has competence in facing threathening situations;
- is able to reflect his/her professional actions;
- knows the most common psychiatric illnesses, their symptoms, investigations and care.
Content (course unit)
- mental health promotion
- prevention of mental health problems and substance abuse
- mental health nursing
- substance abuse nursing
- methods for identifying mental health and substance abuse problems
- nursing care plan, structured documentation
- proactive interaction in threatening, escalating situations
- using and developing one's personality in a professional manner
- psychopharmacology
- psychiatry as a medical specialty
Prerequisites (course unit)
30 ects of initial stage studies completed