Knowledge and understanding 

• understand the importance of interpersonal relationships in the assessment of needs
• account for key concepts of nursing work in psychiatric care
• account for aetiology, epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment and prevention in mental ill health and mental illness
• account for the nursing process in mental ill health and mental illness
• describe how mental ill health and mental illness are manifested as symptoms, and how this affects the individual’s daily life
• account for socio-cultural factors relevant to mental ill health and mental illness
• account for legislation and statutes as well as local guidelines regarding the nursing profession within healthcare

Competence and skill

• create the conditions for a safe and trusting care relationship
• assess the needs of patients, perform, document and assess nursing interventions which promote mental health, identify risks of physical ill health in relation to mental illness and treatment, as well as suggest healthy activities related to these
• identify the signs of mental ill health and mental illness, and suggest treatment options
• explain and provide examples of the application of legislation and statutes relating to compulsory psychiatric care
• calculate, prepare, administer and handle medications properly and in relation to the applicable statutes and legislation, and inform the patient about the effects and side effects of medication

Judgement and approach 

• reflect critically on the care environment and the importance of care culture in psychiatric care
• argue the importance of a conscious approach in relation to people with mental ill health and mental illness
• critically appraise conditions for recovery from an intersectional perspective

• recovery
• inside perspective
• the nursing process
• the nurse’s responsibility
• critical approach
• abstract needs
• conscious approach
• power and participation
• legislation and statutes
• somatic health risks associated with mental illness and treatment
• psychiatric conditions
• treatment of mental ill health and mental illness

This course, containing components with a placement, is subject to Special Regulations for Placements according to the prefect decision of the Department of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology.