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STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Written final exam (50%) which includes:
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- Development questions
- Multiple choice questions
- Comparative evaluation of theory elements
Laboratory (50%) (Work Presentation (20%).
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Promote the mental health of the general population.
- Implement strategies to prevent mental illness or relapse and contribute to maintaining health.
- Identify mental health issues and contribute to the triage of clients in emergency care in the community.
- Know the principles of mental health and apply them in the community.
- Evaluate and apply nursing interventions to clients with mental health problems as appropriate and plan their recovery path in collaboration with them.
- Promote personalized Counseling in the promotion of mental health.
- Combine knowledge and skills of Counseling Nursing in order to manage mental health crisis and implement stabilization interventions.
- Administer and monitor psychopharmacological treatment regimens.
- Contribute to psychoeducation on self-care issues, promoting the individual’s autonomy in family and social life.
- Participate in psychiatric rehabilitation and intervention.
- Collaborate within the interdisciplinary team.
- Promote awareness of mental health and illness with the aim of combating stigma and ensuring the accessibility of both mental health services and healthcare services by people with mental health problems.
- Recognize the importance of an intercultural approach to mental health and adapt the provision of care to the cultural needs of those served.
GENERAL COMPETENCES
- Adapting to new situations
- Decision-making
- Developing team collaboration
- Working in an international environment
- Working in an interdisciplinary environment
- Generating new research ideas
- Respect for diversity, multiculturalism and accessibility
- Respect for the natural environment
- Demonstrating social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking.
The purpose of the course is to provide students with basic, theoretical knowledge, skills, attitudes and principles related to the practice of mental health nursing and to direct Nursing Students to acquire knowledge related to the quality support of healthy individuals and individuals with mental health problems as well as their families. The ultimate goal is to empower those served, create a sense of hope, give meaning to the experience of illness and their active participation in the community.
Course Outline
SYLLABUS
THEORY
- Historical development of Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing. Criteria of mental health and mental illness. Diagnostic classification systems. Mental health nursing in the community.
- Early detection and diagnosis of psychopathology in the community – Prevention and Mental Health Promotion. Management of psychopharmacological treatment in Mental Health Nursing.
- Nursing process. Motivational interviewing and the stages of change. Therapeutic alliance and psychotherapeutic approaches.
- Promotion and prevention of mental health in the family: Limit setting and communication in the family.
- Nursing assessment, responsibility and intervention in adolescents and families facing problems of internet addiction. Interventions in the family and in the community.
- Nursing assessment, responsibility and intervention in families facing problems of Domestic Violence/Adolescent Delinquency – Interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach. Prevention interventions.
- Early detection, nursing assessment, diagnosis and intervention in addictions – Family Interventions – Harm Reduction and addiction treatment – addictions and mental disorders “dual diagnosis”.
- Early detection, nursing assessment, diagnosis and intervention in psychosis.
- Early detection, nursing assessment, diagnosis and intervention in emotional disorders.
- Early detection, nursing assessment, diagnosis and intervention in anxiety disorders.
- Early detection, nursing assessment, diagnosis and intervention in personality disorders.
- Intercultural approach to mental health.
- Recovery and therapeutic rehabilitation of individuals with mental health problems.
LABORATORY
Students will have clinical practice in Mental Health Community Units, Day centers and Mental Health Centers.