Mental Health Patients’ and Intoxicant Abusers’ Care (7 cr)
Code: TH00BY26-3003
General information
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 11.10.2024
Timing
07.10.2024 - 08.11.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
7 op
Virtual portion
2 op
RDI portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
72 % Contact teaching, 28 % Distance learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Elina Santala
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
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PKÄTIS23
Small groups
- 1
- 2
- 07.10.2024 08:00 - 12:00, Infoa ja psykiatriaa, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 08.10.2024 08:00 - 14:00, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 22.10.2024 12:00 - 16:00, Palvelujärjestelmä, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 24.10.2024 10:00 - 16:00, Mielenterveys eri ikäryhmissä, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 29.10.2024 08:00 - 12:00, Hoitajana mielenterveys ja päihdetyössä, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 29.10.2024 13:00 - 18:00, Pienryhmä 1, Prekliininen, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 30.10.2024 12:00 - 17:00, Pienryhmä 2, Prekliininen, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 04.11.2024 08:00 - 13:00, Pienryhmä 1, Prekliininen, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 05.11.2024 08:00 - 13:00, Pienryhmä 2, Prekliininen, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 06.11.2024 08:00 - 10:00, TENTTI, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
- 08.11.2024 10:00 - 16:00, Raskausajan masennus-seminaari, Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoitotyö TH00BY26-3003
Objective
The student:
· Masters mental health promotion as the starting point for all mental health work
· Knows the mental health and substance abuser care service system and can work in multi-professional networks
· Can identify the needs of mental health and substance abuse patients, address problems and guide the patients to appropriate care, record the treatment needs, plan and implement treatment, assess its effects and draw the necessary conclusions.
· Identifies key mental disorders and knows the starting points for their treatment
· Identifies the treatment needs and starting points of patients of different ages
· Can operate in the nursing of mental health care and substance abuser patients by promoting occupational and patient safety
· Understands the importance of ethical guidelines, values, principles and laws as guiding factors in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
· Can use mental health and substance abuse treatment methods in accordance with the principles of recovery orientation
· Understands the importance of treatment relationships and work guidance, and can support and 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
· Understands that a crisis is part of a person’s normal development, and can define the needs of trauma-focused care
· 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
· An empowering approach to work
· Facing a psychotic patient
· Crisis work
· Motivational interview and mini-intervention
· Referring patients to 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
Post-pregnancy and postpartum period
· Promoting mental health during maternity
· Mental health assessment during pregnancy and after childbirth
· Identifying and treating postpartum depression
· Building an attachment relationship between mother and child
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
Evaluation scale
H-5