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.

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.

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

Practical training consists of both practical training, activities along the way and supervised practical training that takes place during the practical training period. The practical training period (7 weeks) take part in municipal health service/specialist health service, mental health and is supervised by a practical training supervisor and contact teacher. Other practical training and activities (1 weeks) can be, simulation, digital learning resources, lectures and seminars.

The flipped classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course. Digital learning resources will be made available in advance.

For practical training, there is a requirement for 80% attendance in theory, activities and practical training that is marked compulsory in the timetable, as well as 90% attendance during the practical training period itself. The student fills in the self-assessment for the start of the practical training, the rotating schedule during the first week of practical training and the self-assessment form no later than two working days before the agreed mid- and final assessment. Other compulsory assignments included in the overall assessment of the course are:

• Reflection assignment, individual assignment on ethics, power and legislation related to the student's own experience from practical training. Scope of 1000 words (+/- 10%).

Assessment in practice.

The assessment takes its point of departure in given criteria based on learning outcomes for the course, criteria for failing the practical training, criteria for suitability assessment and compulsory activities carried throughout the entire course. During the practical training period, a minimum of 90 percent attendance is required to pass the practical training. For more information, see the general part of the programme description about the assessment of practical training.

If the student has failed the practical training, the whole practical training course must be retaken. This includes associated requirements.

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 discuss the nurse's role in health promotion work, everyday (re)habilitation activities for people living at home in different age groups
• can explain person-centered nursing of patients with lasting health challenges and their families
• can discuss health counselling at the individual, group, and social level

Skills

The student

• can apply the nursing process (mapping, planning, carrying out, evaluating and documenting nursing measures) with patients living at home, which contributes to health promotion, rehabilitation, well-being and quality of life
• can interact interprofessionally and across sectors through coordinated, comprehensive, and cohesive service offerings that ensure excellent person-centered health services
• can plan, implement, evaluate and document nursing measures that ensure the safe transfer of patients between units and levels of the municipal health service and which contribute to health promotion for patients living at home
• can provide nursing care for patients in the palliative phase and follow up next-of-kin and those left behind
• can administer and monitor medication treatments for individuals living at home in a responsible manner
• can manage and structure their own working day, in order to achieve independence in their role as a nurse

General competence

The student

• can critically reflect on how information, communication and welfare technology can strengthen the municipality’s services
• can use technology and digital solutions to support patients’ and next-of-kin's resources, mastering possibilities and participation
• can explore what a lack of activity and unmet psychosocial needs can lead to over time, and discussing how new measures can strengthen services provided
• can discuss his/her own professional role in an interprofessional context and initiating and contributing to interprofessional and intersectoral cooperation
• can communicate and share experiences related to central subject matter, nursing problems, and solutions, both in writing and orally
• can identify and reflect on ethical aspects and perspectives when nursing is carried out in private homes
• can critically reflect and engage in new thinking and innovation processes through project work and taking the initiative to quality improvement and implementation of new work methods
• can critically discuss cultural sensitivity and reflecting on the significance of cultural understanding in nursing practice, quality, and patient safety in the patients' homes

Practical training consists of both practical training, activities along the way and supervised practical training that takes place during the practical training period. The practical training period (7 weeks) take part in the municipal health service, home-based services. Other practical training and activities (1 week) can be lectures, simulation, flipped classroom, digital learning resources and seminars.

For practical training, there is a requirement for 80% attendance in theory, activities and practical training that is marked compulsory in the timetable, as well as 90% attendance during the practical training period itself. The student fills in the self-assessment for the start of the practical training, the rotating schedule during the first week of practical training and the self-assessment form no later than two working days before the agreed mid- and final assessment. Other compulsory assignments included in the overall assessment of the course are:

• Simulation palliation
• Innovation and service development, participation in workshops related to innovation and innovation processes
• Group assignment (3-5 students) - based on learning outcomes in the course, the group formulates an issue related to nursing in private homes or in care homes. Scope 1000 words (+/- 10 %). Based on the project description, the group creates a poster that is presented at a seminar before the final assessment.

The assessment takes its point of departure in given criteria based on learning outcomes for the course, criteria for failing the practical training, criteria for suitability assessment and compulsory activities carried throughout the entire course. During the practical training period, a minimum of 90 percent attendance is required to pass the practical training. For more information, see the general part of the programme description about the assessment of practical training.

If the student has failed the practical training, the whole practical training course must be retaken. This includes associated requirements.