Mental Health and Substance Abuse Nursing (7cr)

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 must be completed before entering the middle stage studies.

Exam schedules

Exam 9.4.20.
Parts
1.Psychiatric nursing ( 1-5)
2.Psychiatry (approved/failed) one question
3. Psychofarmaca (approved/failed) 5 questions

Retakes at Exam at May and August

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Lectures, team work, small group work, individual tasks, experience expert visits

Learning materials

Check suitable parts, you can find these two online e-books from Library, just be at tuni-net so they are available
-Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing : An Interpersonal Approach
Rogers, Vickie L.; Fitzpatrick, Joyce J.;Jones, Jeffrey S. New York : Springer Publishing Company. 2012 (USA)--> newer 2017 is even better, you can use it.
-Introduction to mental health nursing . Wrycraft, Nick.2009 (UK)
Safewards: http://www.safewards.net/
http://www.copmi.net.au/
Let´s Talk About Children
Mielen ry materials:
https://mieli.fi/en/materials
And other materials which are showed during lessons

Practical training and working life cooperation

Orientation mandatory and nursing care plan - task lessons mandatory. Experience expert visit at week 14 and week 15, mandatory. Small group work attending mandatory.

Further information

Later will be more information, now you can enroll.
There will be several teachers having lessons at different areas of mental health and abuse nursing.