Skills For Treatment Of Mental Health And Substance Abuse in Emergency Care and Nursing (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

Objectives
• Acknowledge the role of promoting mental health as the basis for all mental health work
• Become familiar with the mental health and substance abuse service system and be able to work in a networked multiprofessional environment
• Know how to identify mental health and substance abuse patients’ needs for care, address any problems and instruct the patient to seek appropriate care, document the needs for care, plan and administer care, evaluate the effectiveness of care and draw the necessary conclusions
• Be able to identify common mental disorders of people of different ages and their need for care and know the basis of treating these disorders in emergency care and mental health work
• Know how to promote occupational and patient safety in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients in emergency care and nursing
• Understand how ethical guidelines, values, principles and legislation steer the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
• Know how to use mental health and substance abuse treatment methods while observing the principles of recovery orientation
• Understand the significance of working in a patient-nurse relationship and the meaning of work supervision and know how to guide the patient and their family members
• Know how to administer different modes of biological treatment safely and effectively, including pharmacotherapy, and how to provide psychosocial care in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
• Understand how crises are part of normal human development and know how to define the needs for care of trauma-focused patients
• Understand the importance of expertise by experience in the development of comprehensive treatment
• Psychoactive medications
• Common mental disorders and how to diagnose and treat them
• Addictions
• The health effects and excessive use of alcohol
• Common narcotic substances, how to identify their usage

Content

Contents
Basics of mental health nursing
• Concept of positive mental health
• Mental health in society and components of mental health
• Care-related interaction in emergency care and nursing (attitudes, ethics, professional interaction)
• Service system expertise
• National and international projects that aim to promote mental health, process of involuntary treatment and seeking treatment voluntarily
• Empowering approach and Recovery model
• Facing a psychotic patient
• Crisis work
Children, adolescents and their families
• Childhood development and mental health
• Common mental health problems of children and adolescents
• Family support
The elderly
• Common mental health challenges and disorders of the elderly
• Substance abuse problems of the elderly
• Motivational interview and mini intervention
• Instructing the patient to seek appropriate care and minimal use of enforcement