Master`s Degree Programme in Clinical Expertise in Health Care and Social Services: S1521S6C Expertise in mental health care
Code: S1521S6
- Degree title
- Master of Health Care (Biomedical Laboratory Science)
- Master of Health Care (Emergency Care)
- Master of Health Care (Physiotherapy)
- Master of Health Care (Midwifery)
- Master of Health Care (Optometry)
- Master of Health Care (Radiography and Radiotherapy)
- Master of Health Care (Nursing)
- Master of Health Care (Oral Hygiene)
- Master of Health Care (Public Health Nursing)
- Master of Health Care (Occupational Therapy)
- Credits
- 90 ects
- Duration
- 2 years (90 cr)
- Start semester
- Autumn 2021
- Teaching language
- Finnish
Descriptions
Metropolia is a continuously renewable multidisciplinary learning community that educates sought-after employees with high-quality, versatile, and international professional skills developed under the principle of lifelong learning. The students’ knowledge and skills are built cooperatively in a fruitful interaction with professional life. Digital, local and international learning environments are used diversely. The unique and valuable qualities of each student are cherished. During the studies, innovations are produced to the needs of workplaces, clients, and society at large. Metropolia’s open way of working changes the surrounding society into a better place for us all.
Metropolia predicts future competence needs and encourages students to actively enhance their skills.Ylempään ammattikorkeakoulututkintoon johtavien opintojen yleisenä tavoitteena on antaa opiskelijalle mahdollisuus syventää teorian soveltamista käytäntöön, analyyttisia taitoja, projektin johtamisen sekä tutkimus- ja kehitystyöhön osallistumisen taitoja sekä sosiaalisia taitoja.
The general aims of the studies leading to a Master’s Degree are to increase the student's capability of applying theory into practice and to deepen his/her analytical and project leadership skills, his/her ability to participate in research and development work, and social skills. The purpose of the final project is to develop the ability to apply research knowledge into practice, to utilize the applicable methods in the development of working life, and to acquire skills required in demanding expert positions. The Master’s Degree improves the student’s ability to develop him/herself in current and future expert and leadership positions and promotes the student’s career development. The graduates are developers and reformers of working life, possessing the needed research and development knowledge.
The studies follow the Learner’s Path model of Metropolia where the main focus is on working life orientated learning, project-based learning and development of RDI, internationality, lifelong learning, and the multidisciplinary approach. The students represent working life and they have at least three years of working experience prior to studies. The students utilize their gained experience and working life connections during the studies and establish networks of experts with other students, various professionals within and outside the school, and alumni. During the studies, the students develop their self-assessment and self-management skills as well as international interaction and communication skills. Internationality is achieved through foreign guest lecturers and multidisciplinary international studies. The aim of the Master's Degree Programme is to provide the students with the extensive and profound knowledge of social and health care that is necessary for the development of working life and to equip them with the theoretical knowledge required for demanding expert and management positions or entrepreneurship. The studies also focus on good communicative and language skills that are necessary in professional life.
The goal of the Programme is to train clinical experts for different social and health care expert positions. The students are able to enhance and advance their expertise in their own field and reform and develop social and health care processes.
The education follows the competence descriptions of the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and the National Qualification Framework. The competence of Master’s degree in Health Care equals level 7. On level 7, the objective of the education is to provide extensive and profound theoretical knowledge that developing working life requires when working in demanding expert duties.
Development
Opetussuunnitelma on laadittu yhteistyössä OKM:n kärkihankkeisiin kuuluvaan Palliatiivisen hoitotyön ja lääketieteen opetuksen työelämälähtöinen kehittäminen (EduPal) – hankkeen toimijoiden kanssa. Palliatiivisen hoitotyön asiantuntijan koulutus järjestetään yhteistyössä EduPal hankkeessa mukana olevien ammattikorkeakoulun kanssa. Jokainen koulutuksen toteutukseen osallistuva ammattikorkeakoulu vastaa yhdestä 5 opintopisteen syventävästä opintojaksosta. Koulutuksen toteutuksesta vastaa kukin ammattikorkeakoulu itsenäisesti ammattikorkeakoulun omia pedagogisia lähtökohtia soveltaen. Konsortiossa mukana olevat ammattikorkeakoulut ovat Metropolia AMK, Jyväskylän AMK, Savonia AMK, Turun AMK, Diakonia-AMK, Oulun Amk ja Kajaanin AMK.
Opetussuunnitelman muutoksia on esiteltyTerveysalan tutkimuspalvelut ja palvelujohtamisen YAMK tutkintojen neuvottelukunnassa 3.10.2019.
Further information
Opetussuunnitelma on kopioitu opetussuunnitelmasta S1520S6.
Opetussuunnitelmaan on tehty seuraavat muutokset:
- Vaihtoehtoisista opinnoista on poistettu opintokokonaisuudet Bioanalytiikan syventävät opinnot ja Radiografian syventävät opinnot, jotka toteutetaan joka toinen vuosi.
- Opintojakso S000ED55 Opinnäytetyö ja kypsyysnäyte 30 op on jaettu 3 uuteen opintojaksoon: 1) Opinnäytetyön ideointi ja suunnittelu , 2) Opinnäytetyön toteutus ja 3) Opinnäytetyön raportointi ja arviointi, joista on muodostettu oma opintokokonaisuus Opinnäytetyö
- Opetussuunnitelmaan on lisätty uusi opintopolku (opintokokonaisuutta): Mielenterveystyön asiantuntija ja opintokokonaisuus Mielenterveystyön aisantuntija opintojaksoineen
- Opintokokonaisuus osaaminen palliatiivisessa hoitotyössä 10 op on poistettu.
- Opintojaksot S000DS39 Näyttöön perustuva osaamisen johtaminen ja kehittäminen palliatiivisessa hoidossa ja S000DS 35 Palliatiivisen hoidon kliinisenä asiantuntijana kehittyminen on siirretty vaihtoehtoisiksi opinnoiksi opintokokonaisuuteen Muutosagenttina tulevaisuuden palveluissa.
- Vapaasti valittavien opintojen laajuus on muutettu 10 op:stä 5 op:een.
Opetussuunnitelman ylläpitäjä koulutussuunnittelija Arja H. Moilanen
Objective
The skills and knowledge of students graduated from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences are described according to the NQF, National Qualifications Framework, and the recommendations of the Rectors' Conference of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences.
General competences: competence descriptions
Competences of learning
The student is able to:
• evaluate and develop his/her expertise in a versatile and goal-oriented manner;
• acquire, process, produce and critically evaluate information from the perspectives of different fields;
• take responsibility for the goal-oriented learning of the organization.
Ethical competences
The student is able to:
• take responsibility for the organization’s actions and their consequences;
• follow professional ethics as an expert and a developer of professional life;
• allow for the views of both the individual and the organization in his/her decisions;
• promote equality in the organization;
• promote the principles of sustainable development and social responsibility;
• base his/her leadership of socially important operations on ethical values.
Competences of organizational leadership
The student is able to:
• improve operating procedures and work well-being;
• develop multidisciplinary communication and interaction;
• apply information and communications technology (ICT) to his/her work;
• create networks and partnerships;
• lead and reform operations in complex and unexpected situations;
• work in demanding expert and managerial positions or as an entrepreneur.
Innovation competences
The student is able to:
• create new knowledge and reform operating procedures by combining knowledge from different fields;
• lead projects;
• lead research, development and innovation projects and apply research and development methods;
• promote customer-oriented, sustainable and cost-effective practices.
International competences
The student is able to:
• communicate internationally in his/her work and in development projects;
• function in international environments;
• anticipate the effects and opportunities of internationalization in his/her field.
Degree-specific competences
Competence descriptions
Social and health care competences
The student is able to:
• utilize extensive and highly specialized social and health care skills and knowledge;
• apply the concepts and methodology of social and health care to his/her independent reflection and/or development of the professional field;
• function in the diverse and changing environments of social and health care.
Expert and managerial competences
The student is able to:
• follow high ethical standards in expert and managerial work;
• develop evidence-based practices in expert positions;
• work in expert and managerial positons in diverse organizations;
• evaluate the results and success of expert work.
Service competences
The student is able to:
• create social and health care services in cooperation with clients and other interest groups;
• apply and combine know-how from different fields in service production;
• lead, develop and evaluate the changing processes and service chains of social and health care and create new, innovative services and methods;
• meet the demanding challenges of service business.
- Download attachment FINAL fi & en YAMK opinnäytetyö arviointikehikko OPS2020 (pdf, 281.57 kB)
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Code | Name | Credits (cr) | 2021-2022 | 2022-2023 | Autumn 2021 | Spring 2022 | Autumn 2022 | Spring 2023 | 1. / 2021 | 2. / 2021 | 3. / 2022 | 4. / 2022 | 1. / 2022 | 2. / 2022 | 3. / 2023 | 4. / 2023 |
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S1521S6-1001 |
Research and Development
(Choose all ) |
10 | ||||||||||||||
S000CO36 | Project Management and Developmental Research | 5 | ||||||||||||||
XX00EJ16 | Research Methods and Skills | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S1521S6-1002 |
Change Agent for the Services of the Future
(Choose ects: 25) |
25 | ||||||||||||||
S000EH88 | Corporate Culture Reform and the Expert | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S000DJ83 | Evidence-based Practices and Management | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S000DJ80 | Digitalization and Enterprise Resource Planning in Health Care and Social Services | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S000DJ81 | Development of Customer-Oriented Services | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S000DJ82 | Development of Quality and Safety Management Processes | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S1521S6-1009 |
Expertise in Mental Health Care
(Choose ects: 20) |
20 | ||||||||||||||
S000EM67 | Development of multidisciplinary practice in mental health care | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S000EM68 | Mental health care as support for health promotion | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S000EM69 | Comprehensive competence in mental health nursing | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S000EM70 | Current issues in mental health management | 5 | ||||||||||||||
S1521S6-1011 |
Master’s Thesis
(Choose all ) |
30 | ||||||||||||||
S000EM83 | Ideation and planning of the Master’s Thesis | 10 | ||||||||||||||
S000EM84 | Implementation of the Master’s Thesis | 10 | ||||||||||||||
S000EM85 | Report and assessment of the Master’s Thesis | 10 | ||||||||||||||
S1521S6-1008 |
Elective and Optional Studies
(Choose ects: 5) |
5 | ||||||||||||||
Total | 90 | 55 | 30 | 20 | 35 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 17.5 | 17.5 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 5 |
Due to the timing of optional and elective courses, credit accumulation per semester / academic year may vary.
STRUCTURE Master (A18.12.2014/1129)
Asetuksen 18.12.2014/1129 mukainen rakenne. 2 § Opintojen rakenne Ylempään ammattikorkeakoulututkintoon johtaviin opintoihin kuuluu: 1) syventäviä ammattiopintoja; 2) vapaasti valittavia opintoja; 3) opinnäytetyö.