Mental Health and Substance Abuse Nursing and Crisis InterventionLaajuus (15 cr)

Objective

Students
- deepen their evidence-based competence in accordance with the key competence areas of nursing: clinical, decision-making, patient education, interaction, ethical, health promotion, and development and leadership competence
- can evaluate their evidence-based development and assume responsibility for the quality of nursing in their own actions
- are prepared for future-oriented and patient/client-oriented development of nursing
- deepen their competence in planning, implementing, evaluating and developing mental health and substance abuse nursing and crisis intervention in different operating environments (focus on adults and the elderly)
- deepen their competence in supporting and giving guidance to patients and their significant others in different phases of the clinical pathway

Content

- evidence-based nursing and its development
- nurses’ expertise and multiprofessional teamwork and networks
- health technology and competence in future nursing
- advanced studies of mental health and substance abuse nursing and crisis intervention
- patient education supporting patient’s resources and empowerment; supporting and providing guidance to significant others
- specific questions related to the study unit

Qualifications

The student may choose the nursing expertise studies when he has completed the theoretical studies included in the professional nursing studies and clinical practices included in these, unless otherwise agreed in the student's ISP.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"