SYKPPRA50IB 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.

In addition, the students taking this course in the spring semester will participate in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1300 ‘Interprofessional collaboration on and with children, young people and their families’, with a scope corresponding to 1.5 credits carried out in the beginning of January. The theme will be how different professions can cooperate on and with children and adolescents. This includes a theoretical understanding of and research-based knowledge about interprofessional cooperation about and with children, adolescents and their families. Examples of the students’ practical training periods in particular, and from interprofessional cooperation in different practical fields of practice in general, will be part of the work. The learning outcomes expected after completion of INTER1300 are marked with *. See INTERACT’s website for a more detailed description of the content of INTER1300: https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interact

Passed the courses:

• SYKP/SYKP1000 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing, 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, 15 credits
• SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases, 20 credits
• SYKK/SYKPPRA30K Decision-making in Nursing and Patient Safety, 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

• is capable of presenting mental health work in a historical perspective
• is capable of explaining different theoretical perspectives on mental health disorders and mental health work: the significance of relationships, professional ethics, aesthetics, dignity and integrity in dealings with patients and next-of-kin
• is capable of discussing how psychosis, personality disorders, anxiety, mood disorder and drug addiction can influence the patients’ fundamental needs and self-understanding
• is capable of describing mental health and psychosocial challenges among refugees and immigrants: trauma, loss, grief and identity
• is capable of describing how stigma, exclusion, discrimination and racism can influence mental health and psychosocial health
• is capable of assessing what inhibits and promotes communication and how poor health and unmet care needs influence professional relations
• is capable of describing strategies for mastery and concepts such as improvement processes, user participation, recovery and empowerment
• is capable of explaining different understandings of mental health, disease and treatment, and how nurses can interact with patients in a culturally sensitive manner
• is capable of understanding how health and social policy, including applicable official requirements and compulsory provisions, can be of significance to the practice of nursing in mental health work
• is capable of discussing social and health issues, including neglect, violence, assault, drug and socio-economic problems, and can identify and follow up people with such challenges and implement necessary measures and/or treatment, or refer the patient to an expert in the field
• can explain different interprofessional methods of collaboration in the field of practice*
• can explain the challenges and possibilities of interprofessional cooperation processes*

Skills

The student

• is capable of applying key milieu therapeutic principles, and relevant mapping tools related to patients with mental health issues and/or drug addictions
• is capable of integrating knowledge from pathophysiology and pharmacology in the nursing of patients with mental health issues and/or drug addictions
• is capable of applying communication and interaction skills when encountering people with mental health issues and their next-of-kin
• is capable of establishing, maintaining and concluding relationships in academic and professional contexts
• is capable of using relevant documentation tools on the basis of a holistic understanding
• is capable of continuously assessing situations that entail a risk for patients and/or staff and preventing unwanted incidents
• is capable of demonstrating counselling skills, and is capable of receiving and making use of feedback on his/her own conduct
• can on the basis of examples from their own practical training, analyse and assess interprofessional cooperation processes on and with children and young people with challenges*

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
• reflecting on existing procedures and methods, and taking the initiative to engage in dialogue about the implementation of new knowledge and new work methods
• understanding of the basis for and necessity of interprofessional cooperation about and with children, young people and their parents/guardians, and of their own professional contribution to the cooperation*

Practical training: in Municipal health service/Specialist health service, Mental health (8 weeks), including self-study, 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.

Digital learning resources are used for parts of INTER1300 ‘Interprofessional cooperation about and with children, adolescents and their families’, including digital resource lectures with lecturers from different study programmes, relevant cases and examples. Casework, observations and assignments related to interprofessional group work and self-study are also used. The students’ experience from practical training periods and examples from relevant practical training arenas are actively included in the work.

Practical training has requirements for attendance, self-presentation for the start of the practice and self-assessment for the mid- and final assessment, participation in seminars, simulation, relational skills and cooperation, reflection assignment, individual assignment on ethics, power and legislation related to the student's own experience from practical training. Scope of 1000 words (+/- 10%).

The following must have been completed and approved in order for a student to take the exam:

• INTER1300, Submitted individual log. Scope: 500 words (+/- 10%). In order to write the log, the student must first attend a seminar over two days.

Assessment in practice

The assessment takes its point of departure in given criteria based on learning outcomes for the course, assessment criteria, the continuous assessment, the suitability assessment and compulsory activities carried throughout the practical training. Students’ practical training can only be assessed if their attendance is sufficiently high (90%). 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

Not relevant.

Pass/fail.

Students must have passed ANESTPRA10 Clinical Studies in Nurse Anaesthesia, Level 1 in order to start this course.

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 in-depth knowledge of how the most common anaesthesia methods and drugs function and are used
• has in-depth knowledge of the most common complications in connection with acute and/or critical illness, advanced medical treatment and anaesthesia

• has in-depth knowledge of special circumstances relating to different surgical procedures that have a bearing on the choice and application of different anaesthesia forms, techniques and drugs
• has in-depth knowledge of maintaining and restoring vital functions in situations where they are threatened
• has knowledge of the effects of different treatment and examination methods on the nurse anaesthetist¿s working environment

Skills:

The student

• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to existing theories and methods in nurse anaesthesia
• is capable of working on practical and theoretical problem-solving relating to the functions and responsibilities of a nurse anaesthetist:
  • is capable, with some assistance, of working in an independent and responsible manner when administering general anaesthesia to otherwise able-bodied patients (ASA 1 and 2) in accordance with applicable guidelines
  • is capable of independently administering and evaluating prescribed anaesthetics and other relevant drugs
  • is capable of independently administering and evaluating the most commonly used pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain relief methods
  • is capable of independently monitoring patients under regional anaesthesia and deep sedation
  • is capable of using the anaesthetic machine and advanced medical equipment commonly used in treatment in a conscious and sound manner
  • is capable of independently identifying acute and problematic situations
  • is capable of ensuring continuity in patient treatment through written and oral documentation

Competence:

The student

• is capable, with some supervision, of analysing ethical issues based on relevant discipline knowledge, research, experience and patient knowledge

• is capable of participating actively in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation on patient treatment in accordance with his/her own competence and applicable ethical principles and healthcare legislation
• is capable of contributing to new ideas and innovation processes in nurse anaesthesia