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