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Mental Health Nursing

Subject
Subject code 6VTO09/VT
Subject name Mental Health Nursing
Credit points 4 ECTS
Grading method Exam (letters)
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2010 Õp
Study year 3
Semester Spring semester
Subject type Mandatory
Academicians
Marika Merits
Eda Müürsepp
Aim
Developing knowledge, values and skills for offering nursing aid in
mental health sphere in cooperation with interdisciplinary team in
health and social care areas.
Study outcome
Having passed the module, the student:
1. describes the essence and principles of mental health, and the legal
acts regulating mental health sphere;
2. describes the most widely spread mental disorders, their incidence
and symptoms;
3. knows the most widely known mental disorders and ways of
treating them, and can observe the condition of patient receiving
psycho-pharmacological treatment;
4. recognizes and brings out the factors influencing mental health;
5. recognizes and defines problems related with mental health
nursing and finds evidence based solutions to them;
6. connects theory and practice, offers nursing aid to patient/client by
relying on evidence based know-how.
Current rounds
None
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