Learning outcome

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

The candidate has knowledge of:

• The organization of municipal health services, mental health care and substance abuse care
• What public health involves at the individual, group and social levels
• The development of nursing as a profession and science, and its uniqueness and place in society
• The nurse’s responsibilities, duties and functions in the municipal health services, mental health care and substance abuse care
• Different conditions and complex diseases, and people with chronic or long-term functional impairment and mental illnesses
• How nursing science, natural sciences and social sciences contribute to the whole and integrated foundation of nursing practices
• Development and research within the nursing profession’s various knowledge areas related to people with chronic or long-term functional impairment or mental illnesses.

Skills

The candidate can:

• Apply and justify nursing practice in light of nursing’s integrated knowledge base
• Apply research-based knowledge that is relevant to theoretical issues and relevant target groups in the municipal health services and mental health services
• Apply nursing knowledge in simulated and complex patient situations
• Master the tools for ethical reflection related to rights and priorities
• Master documentation related to disease processes and treatment in the municipal health services and mental health services.

General competence

The candidate:

• Has insight into overall health policy objectives, frameworks, priorities and legislation, including interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration
• Has insight into how health promotion and preventative aspects affect interventions in municipal health services and mental health services
• Has insight into the user’s perspective, patient and family rights, and the role of patient and user knowledge in evidence-based practice
• Can assess nursing problem solving, creativity and innovation processes within local health services and mental health services.
  

Course Description

Nursing’s History and Traditions III

• Development of nursing as a profession and science - a historical perspective
  

The Nurse’s Responsibilities and Functions III

• Nurse’s functions: health promotion and prevention, treatment and pain relief, habilitation and rehabilitation, instruction, administrative and professional development function in municipal health services, mental health services, and mental health services and substance abuse care
• Leadership in nursing
• Creativity and innovation in nursing
• Professional, interdisciplinary and inter-departmental cooperation.
  

The Nurse’s Ethical Foundation III

• Human rights
• Legislation governing municipal health services, mental health services and substance abuse care
• Ethical dilemmas, reflections and arguments in municipal health services, mental health services and substance abuse care.
  

Nursing’s Scientific Foundation III

• Scientific perspectives of nursing in relation to the municipal health services, mental health services and substance abuse care
• Application of research in practice (EBP Step 5).

Context and Patient Knowledge III

The Organization, Administration and Priorities of the Welfare State

• Welfare state administration and organization of municipal health services, mental health services and substance abuse care
• Health policy priorities in municipal health services, mental health services and substance abuse care, including welfare, professionalism and recruitment
• Public health at the individual, cultural and societal levels
• Patient safety, quality systems and internal control
• Health law and patient and user rights

Social Perspectives on Aging and the Elderly

• The relationship between society and the elderly as a group
• Positive and negative views on aging

Social Perspectives on Mental Illness and People with Mental Illnesses

• The relationship between society, social development and mental illness
• Recovery and resilience

Social Perspectives on Aging and Mental Illnesses in People from Minority Backgrounds

The Aging Person

• Biological, psychological and social aging
• Key phenomena and concepts related to aging and old age
• Key diagnoses and symptom conditions in the elderly
• Basic and complex needs of nursing in loss of health and illness in the elderly

The Mentally Ill Person

• Biological, psychological and social perspectives on mental illness
• Key phenomena and concepts related to mental illness
• Key diagnoses and symptoms conditions in people with mental illnesses
• Basic and complex needs of nursing mental illness
• The patient’s subjective experience, and experience with mental health and mental disorders

Methods and Interventions III

Pedagogy and Communication

• Pedagogical and communication theory related to teaching and counseling of patients, families and colleagues in the municipal health services, mental health services and substance abuse care

E-health and Welfare Technology

• Decision making and documentation of nursing in the municipal health services, mental health services and substance abuse care
• Telenursing

Advanced nursing skills in the municipal health services, mental health services and substance abuse care

Emergency/disaster exercise

Teaching and Learning Methods

Subject literature studies, digital learning resources, lectures, seminars and learning groups.

Assessment Methods

Individual written examination under supervision - five hours. Assessed with a grade.

Course requirements:

Requirements are specified in the course plan.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean