SYKPPRA50B Nursing Persons with Mental Health Problems Course description

In this course, students will learn about mental health work, relational skills and factors that promote and harm the mental health of individuals and groups. People's resources and opportunities, but also their vulnerabilities as individuals, are areas of focus. The significance of close relationships and society's influence are important for mental health and are emphasised in the course. This includes patient phenomena such as hope and hopelessness, pain and pain relief, exhaustion and energy.

Passed the courses:

• SYKP/SYKP1000 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing/Fundamentals of Nursing 1, 13 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1100 Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, 12 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1200 Microbiology and Infection Control, 5 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1300 Pharmacology and Drug Administration, 5 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1400 Diseases and Health Deficits, 10 credits
• SYKK/SYKPPRA10 The Fundamentals of Nursing/2, 15 credits
• SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases/1, 20 credits
• SYKK/SYKPPRA30K Decision-making in Nursing and Patient Safety/Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases2, 10 credits

or equivalent

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

• can present mental health work in a historical perspective
• can s discuss how psychosis, personality disorders, anxiety, mood disorder and drug addiction can influence the patients’ fundamental needs and self-understanding
• can describe mental health and psychosocial challenges among refugees and immigrants and how stigma, exclusion, discrimination, and racism can influence mental health 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
• 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 and can establish, maintain, and terminate relationships
• can map symptoms of various mental and drug-related disorders and conditions and use relevant mapping 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
• can assess what inhibits and promotes communication and how poor health and unmet care needs influence professional relations

Competence

The student is capable of

• reflecting 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
• reflecting on existing procedures and methods, and taking the initiative to engage in dialogue about the implementation of new knowledge and new work methods

None.

A student who has completed his or her qualification has the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• has advanced knowledge of key concepts in the theory and comparative analysis of social welfare policies
• has advanced knowledge of explanatory models, such as the logic of industrialism, institutional and state-centered approaches, and power resource theory
• has advanced knowledge of normative perspectives on social welfare
• has advanced knowledge of concepts that are relevant for assessing the outcomes of social welfare policies

Skills

The student

• can apply theoretical concepts, normative perspectives and explanatory models in the analysis of social policies, in a national as well as international context

General competence

The student

• is able to critically evaluate the use of concepts and models in academic as well as political debates about social policies

The course is organised into a series of lectures. Students are expected to play an active role by participating in discussions of course themes during lectures.

The following coursework requirements must be completed and approved by the given deadline in order for the student to take the exam.

Students must submit a coursework requirement of 10 pages (+/-10%), calibri 12 pt., paragraph 1.5, on a topic relevant to the course, to be approved by the course lecturer. The topic of the work requirement will reflect main areas of the course curriculum and lectures. The coursework requirement should be written in groups of 3-4 students.

Students whose papers are not approved after the first submission will be given the chance to resubmit once and they may be required to resubmit papers of about 6 pages individually. Students whose papers are not approved after two submissions will disqualify from sitting the final examination.

The student's learning outcome will be assessed on the basis of an individual six-hour written school examination.

Grade scale A-F.

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

A random selection consisting of at least 25% of the exam papers will be graded by both an internal and external examiner. This will inform the grading of the remaining exam papers.