Psychiatric Nursing

Code: ENF14469L

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The UC allows you to obtain skills that need to develop the process of care for people with mental health changes, involving a family and a community.

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

5. Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

10. Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Learning Goals

Learning Objective:
To acquire knowledge and skills to develop the process of caring for the person with mental health changes, involving the family and the community

Skills
• Understands the theories and precipitating factors of mental disease
• Understands the impact of mental disease on individual and family self-care and functioning of the person, in context
• Demonstrates ability to establish a therapeutic relationship
• Develops the clinical reasoning process applied to the person with mental disease, in a simulated context
o Makes diagnostic assessment and identifies nursing focus
o Makes care planning
o Identifies and uses therapeutic intervention tools
o Evaluate health outcomes
• Develops metacognitive critical thinking skills

Main theoretical models explaining mental illness
Indicators of mental state evaluation
Mental and psychophysiological functions
Mental disorders and the impact on self-care and functioning
Mood disorders
Anxiety disorders
Psychotic disorders
Substance related and addictive disorders
Neuro-cognitive disorders
Feeding and Eating disorders
Diagnostic Assessment Training
Clinical Assessment Interview
Assessment instruments
Training in organizing and interpreting collected data according to theoretical models, scientific knowledge and taxonomies
Training in care planning and prescription of therapeutic interventions
Training in strategies for providing care with respect for individuality and according to plan:
Therapeutic relationship
Therapeutic management
Relaxation techniques
Reality orientation
Recreational activities with therapeutic objective
Critical thinking training

Teaching Methods

In the lecture classes will be used the expository and argumentative methodology, promoting group discussion.
In PL classes, didactic teaching techniques will be used using clinical cases. The process of clinical reasoning applied to the person with mental health changes will be trained in a simulated context.

Assessment

The assessment consists of two components, each with its own weighting:
? Written Exam ? 60%
? Laboratory Practice (LP) ? 40%
The Written Exam covers all the material taught. The Laboratory Practice component is assessed through an individual written paper containing a critical and reflective analysis of the student's performance during the laboratory practice sessions, with special emphasis on the clinical interview. To pass the course, the student must obtain a minimum score of 9.5 in each assessment component, on a scale of zero to twenty points.
Furthermore, to be admitted to the course, the student must have attended at least 75% of the Laboratory Practice classes taught (article 105, paragraph 1, of the RAUE). Students who do not achieve the minimum grade, or who miss any of the assessment sessions, are subject to an exam, which may include:
? Theoretical Component Exam
? Practical Exam
Admission to the practical exam is subject to attendance of at least 75% of the practical laboratory classes.