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SYKKPRA50 Nursing Persons with Mental Health Problems Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Sykepleie til mennesker med psykiske lidelser
Study programme
Bachelor's Programme in Nursing
Weight
15.0 ECTS
Year of study
2025/2026
Curriculum
FALL 2025
Schedule
Course history

Introduction

Ingen forkunnskapskrav.

Required preliminary courses

To start this course you must have passed:

  • Passed the first year of study.
  • SYKP/SYKP2100 Person Centered Care, 15 credits.
  • SYKK/SYKPPRA21 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, 15 credits.
  • SYKK/SYKPPRA30K Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2, 10 credits.

or equivalent.*

* For year group 2022 at OsloMet, the equivalent is:

  • Passed the first year of study.
  • SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, 20 credits.
  • SYKP/SYKP1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits.
  • SYKP/SYKK2000 Theory of Science and Research Methods, 5 credits.
  • SYKK/SYKPPRA30 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2, 10 credits.

Learning outcomes

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

Knowledge

The student

  • can present mental health work in a historical perspective
  • can reflect on factors that inhibit and promote mental health at individual and group level
  • can s discuss how psychosis, personality disorders, anxiety, mood disorder and drug addiction can influence the patients’ fundamental needs and self-understanding and what consequences this has for person-centred nursing
  • can explain the psychological and psychosocial challenges faced by immigrants, refugees, Sami and other minority groups, as well as explain how stigma, alienation, discrimination and racism can affect mental and psychosocial health
  • can describe strategies for mastery and concepts such as improvement processes, user participation, recovery, and empowerment
  • can explain how framework factors such as current legislation and compulsory regulations can be of significance to the practice of nursing in mental health work
  • can discuss the special needs of children and young people related to trauma, neglect, violence, abuse and drug and socio-economic problems

Skills

The student

  • can apply key milieu therapeutic principles related to patients with mental disorders and can establish, maintain, and terminate relationships
  • can apply knowledge about the main groups of psychotropic drugs and integrate knowledge from disease theory in assessing the effects and side effects of drugs
  • can apply communication and interaction skills when encountering people with mental health issues and their next-of-kin in interdisciplinary collaboration
  • can make a comprehensive survey of symptoms, risks and life history of people with various mental and drug-related disorders and conditions and use current documentation tools in the practice of nursing
  • is capable of continuously assessing situations that entail a risk for patients and/or staff and preventing unwanted incidents

General competence

The student

  • can reflect on his/her own professional practice and power structures when encountering people with mental health issues and drug addictions and and receive guidance and feedback
  • can reflect on existing procedures and methods in the field of practice, and taking the initiative to engage in dialogue about the implementation of new knowledge and new work methods in person-centred nursing and in interdisciplinary collaboration

Teaching and learning methods

Et skriftlig arbeidskrav på 3000 ord (pluss/minus 10 prosent) og der forside, litteraturliste og eventuell innholdsfortegnelse kommer i tillegg. Arbeidskravet kommenteres av faglærer og/eller medstudent. Det kan enten leveres individuelt eller to studenter kan levere arbeidskrav sammen. Arbeidskravet må være godkjent for å kunne gå opp til eksamen.

Course requirements

Individuell hjemmeeksamen over 48 timer.

Assessment

Alle hjelpemidler er tillattt så lenge regler for kildehenvisning følges.

Permitted exam materials and equipment

Gradert skala A-F.

Grading scale

Det benyttes en intern og en ekstern sensor til sensurering av besvarelsene. Et uttrekk på minst 25% av besvarelsene sensureres av to sensorer. Karakterene på de besvarelsene som er vurdert skal danne grunnlag for å fastsette nivå på resten av besvarelsene.

Examiners

Heidi Woll

Overlapping courses

SYKKPRA50x, SYKPPRA50x, SYKDPRA50 and SKOMPPRA20 are fully overlapping.