SKOMPPRA4 Clinical Studies, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Course description

Credits based on the national curriculum are:

• Main topic 1 - 2 credits
• Main topic 2 - 7 credits
• Main topic 3 - 3 credits
• Main topic 4 - 3 credits

Admission to the programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge:The student has knowledge of

• clinical assessment processes in nursing aimed at attending to the patient¿s basic needs and resources in mental health care, including therapeutic treatment activities and milieu therapy
• different theoretical perspectives on mental health disorders and mental health work: the significance of relationships, professional ethics, aesthetics and dignity, and integrity in dealings with patients and next of kin
• coping strategies and recovery processes (patient perspective, user participation and empowerment)
• mental health and psychosocial problems among refugees and immigrants: trauma, loss, grief and identity
• mental health in a historical perspective
• the relationship between substance abuse and mental health disorders
• how mental health disorders such as psychoses, personality disorders, anxiety and mood disorders affect the patient¿s basic needs, as well as special circumstances relating to old age psychiatry
• pharmacology and drug administration related to relevant diseases
• compulsory provisions set out in health legislation that apply to the municipal and specialist health services

Skills:The student

• is capable of observing, assessing and providing nursing care to patients with mental health disorders and reflecting on their own professional practice in relation to those with mental health disorders
• masters relevant drug administration
• is capable of taking active part in interdisciplinary cooperation
• is capable of using theory on personality psychological factors, cognitive functions, ego functions, identity, self-image and moods
• is capable of using theory on therapeutic communication and cooperation principles and theory on facilitating the therapeutic climate
• is capable of using relevant results from research and development work in dealings with and treatment of people with mental health disorders

Competence:The student is capable of:

• planning and carrying out nursing interventions relating to patients receiving mental health care and substance abuse treatment
• sharing opinions that can contribute to professional development

Clinical training, lectures, group work, seminars, written assignments, logs, supervision and self-study.

Students will firstly take a preparatory course lasting approx. two weeks, before embarking on eight weeks¿ clinical training with direct patient contact. The theory course is designed so that the students are introduced to the Norwegian understanding of communication with patients and next of kin, training in the simulation and skills centre, technical equipment etc., adapted to the clinical training period they are about to embark on.

All clinical training have different mandatory activities and tasks in the implementation. See chapter on Clinical training.

The assessment is based on the learning outcomes for the course, the student's specification of the learning outcomes and the formative assessment made of the student during the clinical training period.

Students¿ clinical training can only be assessed if their attendance is sufficiently high.

• Less than 10% absence: The student can complete the clinical training course as normal.
• 10-20% absence: If possible, the student can make up for the clinical training missed. This must be agreed with the clinical training supervisor and the supervisor at the university.
• More than 20% absence: The student must retake the whole clinical training course.

Students are responsible for obtaining a copy of their assessment form from the supervisor. The form must be presented to the new supervisor in the next clinical training period.

Not relevant.

Pass- fail.

One representative of the clinical training establishment and one representative of the university. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.

SKOMPPRA4, SYBAPRA4, and SYBASPRA4 overlap 100%.