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Mental Health and Patient Care
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:27.01.2021 16:01:11
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | MDAK_325 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Psychiatry | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Velga Sudraba | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Nursing and Obstetric Care | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, mdak rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061568 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 3 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 6 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Anatomy, Physiology, Pathological Anatomy, Psychology, Medical Ethics, Public Health, Patients Care, Neurology, Pharmacology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop knowledge about psychiatric disorders and substance use disorders; their epidemiology, development, clinical symptoms, diagnostics, treatment, to develop skills and competences for patient care and social rehabilitation. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The concept of mental health and the history of developing psychiatry. Promoting mental health and prevention of disorders. Basic princips of communication and ethic in the mental care. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Basic principles of the care process in mental health care. Documentation of nursing care diagnoses and care. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Addiction as a disease. Bio-psycho-social model of addiction. Alcoholism in ICD-10, symptoms, consequences, treatment. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Neurotic, with stress connected and somatoform connected, patient care. Personality disorders, patient care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Affective disorders – manic and depression, patient care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Perception disorders – schizophrenia, patient care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Epilepsy, personality change connected with it, patient care. Disorders of intellectual development, patient care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Laboratory indicators of Substance use disorders (SUD). Tests for assessment of SUD, their analysis. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Independently read the sources of psychiatry and SUD treatment. Independently look for studies of psychiatry and SUD treatment, read them and make summary. Prepare for test; interview patients; formulate care diagnosis and prepare a care plan. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1) Activity in practical classes and lectures – 10%; 2) Theoretical test works, analyses of research – 20%; 3) Practical test work (in the small group) – interview of patient, make care diagnosis and care plan – 70%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students recognize the psychiatric disorders, SUD; define them in ICD-10; analyse and arrange patient’s medical history; describe drugs and their side effects in psychiatry and SUD treatment; describe problems of communication and specifics of care with psychiatric and SUD patients. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students can apply adapted communication style to work with psychiatric and SUD patients; make interview and collect patient’s medical history; assess patient’s condition; make a care plan. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will be able to differentiate the psychiatric disorders, SUD; interpret and analyse patient’s medical data; successfully carry out care plan of psychiatric and SUD patients. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Osis G. Narkoloģija vispārējās prakses ārstiem. Rīga: SIA”TRIO-J”; 2006. | ||||||||
| 2 | Lesch OM, Walter H, Wetschka Ch, Hesselbrock M, Hesselbrock V. Alcohol and Tobacco. Medical and Sociological Aspects of Use, Abuse and Addiction. SpringerWienNewYor; 2011. | ||||||||
| 3 | Kulbergs J. Dinamiskā psihiatrija. Rīga, Jumava, 2001. | ||||||||
| 4 | Garīgās veselības aprūpes māsas pamatspecialitāte. Mācību materiāls. – Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds, 2009. | ||||||||
| 5 | Deksters G., Vošs M. Rokasgrāmata psihiatrijas māsām. – Rīga: Jumava, 2006. | ||||||||
| 6 | Semple D., Smyth R. Oxford handbook of psychiatry. Oxford University press, 2013. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Stirna A (red). Atkarība no alkohola. Narkoloģija. Rīga: Medicīnas apgāds; 2008. | ||||||||
| 2 | Eglītis I. Psihiatrija. Rīga, Zvaigzne, 1989. | ||||||||
| 3 | Eglītis I., Andrēziņa R., Jansons V., Kamjanovs I., Kazlovsko G., Psihiatrija ārstiem nepsihiatriem. – Rīga: Zvaigzne, 1985 | ||||||||
| 4 | Eglītis I. Vispārīgā psihopatoloģija. Rīga: Zvaigzne, 1986. | ||||||||
