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STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Written final exam (60%) which includes:
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- Development questions
- Multiple choice questions
- Comparative analysis of theoretical issues
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Written assignment (40%)
Laboratory (100%)
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After the end of the course students will be able to:
- Promote the mental health of people suffering from mental disorders in all levels of health care services
- Prevent mental illness or relapse
- Evaluate and apply, as appropriate, nursing interventions to the mentally ill people and plan their rehabilitation
- Know and promote the principles of mental health and promote them in all levels of health care services and in the community.
- Promote personalized counseling in the promotion of mental health.
- Combine knowledge and skills of nursing counseling, in order to evaluate and manage critical health situations.
GENERAL COMPETENCES
The aim 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 train nursing students to acquire knowledge related to the quality support of healthy and sick, providing quality care through their psycho-emotional support, educating the healthy and the sick and making the right health decisions.
- Adaptation to new situations
- Decision making
- Teamwork
- Work in an international environment
- Work in an interdisciplinary environment
- Production of new research ideas
- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- Respect for the natural environment
- Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and sensitivity in gender issues
- Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking
Course Outline
SYLLABUS
The course includes:
- The necessary theoretical knowledge for mental health and illness as well as scientific knowledge for all mental illnesses.
- The knowledge and skills of nursing assessment of the mentally ill.
- The nursing methods of treating these patients.
- The application of the nursing process in the care of the mentally ill.
- Communication with the mentally ill.
- The knowledge for the rehabilitation of the mentally ill.
- The principles and values that govern Counseling as well as its skills.
Theoretical part (THEORY)
- General information about the course Mental Health – Mental Illness. Criteria for mental health and mental illness.
- Communication – methods of communication with the mentally ill – intercultural approach – Mental functions – Classification of mental illness – personality disorders.
- Nursing evaluation, responsibility and intervention in patients with Schizophrenia.
- Detailed forms of schizophrenia and their treatment in the hospital.
- Nursing responsibility in the medication of the mentally ill – Therapeutic environment – Electroconvulsive therapy – Psychotherapy – Nursing role.
- Nursing evaluation, responsibility and intervention in patients with anxiety.
- Nursing evaluation, responsibility and intervention in patients with Suicidal tendencies / Addictions.
- Nursing evaluation, responsibility and intervention in patients with bipolar disorder.
- Nursing evaluation, responsibility and intervention in patients with psychogenic anorexia – Bulimia.
- Nursing evaluation, responsibility and intervention in patients with Dementia-Alzheimer’s disease / mental problems of the elderly.
- Nursing evaluation, responsibility and intervention in patients with – Autism – Epilepsy.
- Family counseling for patients with mental illness – definition – principles – values – methods.
- Rehabilitation of mentally ill-Structures-Psychosocial Rehabilitation Units-Occupational and Social rehabilitation of mentally ill.
- Nursing Ethics in the field of Mental Health.
Clinical part (LABORATORY)
- Students are trained in psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric clinics of general hospitals, in mental health shelters and in mental health centers.