Mental Health Care and Care of AddictedLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can describe the totality of mental health care, psychiatric nursing and drug users care, which includes prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.  You are able to describe psychiatric patients and drug users in different phases of the nursing process.  You have ability to meet the psychiatric patient and drug users.  You are able to assess the psychiatric patient's and drug user´s condition changes.  You can use the key interventions of psychiatric- and drug users care  You have knowledge about the main psychiatric medication and their mechanisms of action. 

Content

What are the most common psychiatric disorders and drug using problems?  What are the most common symptoms of psychiatric disorders, research and treatment methods? What is included in psychiatric patient and drug users care and the whole nursing process?  How do you meet with psychiatric patient and drug user?  What kind of nursing interventions do you use?  How do you use your own personality as a tool in psychiatric nursing and drug users care?  How do you carry out psychiatric patients and drug users medication?   

Qualifications

Hoitotyön ammatilliset perusteet Hyvinvoinnin ja terveyden edistäminen Osallistuminen; sisätautien hoitotyö, kirurginen ja perioperatiivinen hoitotyö ja lääketieteelliset opinnot  

Assessment criteria, good (3)

You can: a. use professional vocabulary systematically  b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.  c. identify interrelated tasks.  e. use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.