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Mental Health and Substance Abuse Nursing (8 cr)

Code: TH00BW48-3002

General information


Enrollment
02.12.2022 - 15.01.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
01.01.2023 - 31.07.2023
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 cr
Local portion
6 cr
Virtual portion
2 cr
RDI portion
1 cr
Mode of delivery
Blended learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
Finnish
Seats
5 - 30
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing
Teachers
Elina Santala
Course
TH00BW48
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Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Info opintojaksosta + Mitä on mielenterveys? (2h)
Masennus, Kaksisuuntainen mielialahäiriö (2h)
Psykoosisairaudet, persoonallisuushäiriöt (2h)
Päihteet ja riippuvuuden hoito (2h)
Mielenterveys- ja päihdetyö + Stigma (2h)
Mielenterveys- ja päihdetyön palvelujärjestelmä(2h)
Kriisit ja traumat
Meilenterveys- ja päihdeongelmien enaltaehkäisty
Lasten ja nuorten mielenterveys
Ikääntyvien mielenterveys
Hoidon suunnittelu, toteutus ja arviointi
Motivoiva haastettelu
Aggressiivisen asiakkaan kohtaaminen
TENTTI

TAI toimintapäivän ohjaus

Viikko 16 Mielenterveys ja päihdetyön teemaviikko Turun ammatti-instituutti
+Mielenterveyden edistäminen -tutkimusryhmän teemapäivä

Objective

Some of the studies in the study unit are arranged in English

Objectives

Students will
• 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 and know the basis of treating these disorders
• Be able to recognize the needs for care and backgrounds of patients of different ages
• Know how to promote occupational and patient safety in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
• 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
• Have the resources to deal with aggressive or violent customers
• 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

Content

Contents

Basics of mental health nursing
• Concept of positive mental health
• Mental health in society and components of mental health
• Care-related interaction (attitudes, ethics, professional interaction)
• Service system expertise
• National and international projects that aim to promote mental health
• Process of involuntary treatment, seeking treatment voluntarily
• Empowering approach and Recovery model
• Facing a psychotic patient
• Crisis work
• Motivational interview and mini intervention
• Instructing the patient to seek appropriate care and minimal use of enforcement
• Facing an aggressive patient
• 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

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

Materials

Hämäläinen, Kanerva, Kuhanen, Schubert & Seuri. 2017. Mielenterveyshoitotyö. Sanomapro. Sivut 18-101 ja 139-339

Lönnqvist, J., Marttunen, M., Henriksson, M., Partonen, T., Aalberg, V. & Seppälä, O. 2017. Psykiatria. [Helsinki]: Kustannus Oy Duodecim.
- Mielenterveyden häiriöiden diagnostiikka ja luokittelu
- Mielenterveyden häiriöt

Aalto, M., Alho, H. & Niemelä, S. 2018. Huume- ja lääkeriippuvuudet. [Helsinki]: Kustannus Oy Duodecim.

Mielenterveys ja päihdehoitotyön Käypä hoito -suositukset

Teaching methods

Työpajatyöskentely
Pienryhmä keskustelu
Pienryhmäharjoittelu

International connections

Työelämätyheistyö
Verkkopedakogiikka

Completion alternatives

Sovitaan opettajan kanssa, mikäli tarpeen

Student workload

1. Stigma-verkkokeskustelu (Hyv-hyl)
2. Motivoiva-haastatteli verkkokurssi ja motivoivan haastattelunnhuoneentaulu
3. Mielenterveys ja päihdetyön teemaviikon suunnitelma
4. Mielenterveyden edistämisen -tutkimusryhmän teemapäivä ja siihen liittyvät itsenäiset tehtävät
Tentti

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