Clinical Traineeship in Mental Health and Psychiatry Nursing

Code: ENF14538M

15 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/405 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

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

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

Learning Goals

Acquire and develop knowledge and skills in ESMP. Specifically a) know different conceptualizations of mental health and psychiatric nursing; b) understand the singularities of the object of study; c) discuss and evaluate ontological and theoretical understandings of mental health and psychiatric nursing; d) Critically reflect on the organizational and contextual realities of mental health.

Foundations, conceptual and historical framework, theories and models of MHPN; Assessment techniques; Classified language; Specialized nursing care indicators and quality standards; Concept of prevention and promotion of mental illness and early intervention; Factors for protecting and promoting the client's well-being and mental health; Integrated continuing mental health care; National Mental Health Legislation and Guidelines on Compulsive Treatment; Documentary standard for ESMP; Structural determinants of mental health; Disaster mental health; Community-based participatory evaluation models; Technical guidelines, legislation and policies relating to vulnerable people, groups and communities, with an emphasis on ethnic minorities.
Total UC hours include 40 hours for Reporting

Teaching Methods

The Internship takes place in an inpatient context (inpatient services for patients undergoing acute clinical decompensation (adults); community context (Community Care Units/community intervention teams that integrate EESMP) and/or a context of differentiated responses (specialized care centers for patients with addictive behaviors, forensic psychiatry services, child psychiatry, gerontopsychiatry, liaison psychiatry...) The internship should be carried out under the guidance and supervision of specialist nurses in mental health and psychiatric nursing.
Student assessment results from the evaluation of two components, the clinical component (50%: hetero-assessment (35%); self-assessment (15%)) and the second component, the preparation of a report (50%) that expresses the care process performed. The student will be successful if the final classification is equal to or greater than 10 points.