MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Course unit partition: Parma Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria

Academic year 2012/13
3° year of course -
Professor
Academic discipline
Scienze infermieristiche generali, cliniche e pediatriche (MED/45)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Caratterizzante
20 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
hub: Parma Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria
course unit
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Course unit partition: MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

Learning objectives

The course is aimed to make the students able to recognize people with mental disorders and to make an adequate project of care or for referring them to the department of mental health.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The first part of the classes will address the fundamental principles of psychopathology, particularly the alterations of consciousness, aperception, thought and affect.
The second part of the classes will address the principal mental disorders such as substance abuse disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders and personality disorders.
The third part of the classes will address the fundamental principles of treatment of mental disorders (pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy).
The fourth part of the classes will address the organization of the Department of Mental Health

Full programme

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Bibliography

PSICOPATOLOGIA E CLINICA PSICHIATRICA- CASSANO-TUNDO - UTET 2006

P. SARTESCHI, C. MAGGINI. MANUALE DI PSICHIATRIA Ed.SBM Noceto (PR). Suggested topics: General Psychopathology: pag. 109-177, 193-215; Schizophrenia: pag 491-501; 534-572; Mood Disoreders: pag. 611-614; 630-692.

Slides and issues concerning classes:
- Mood Disorders;
- Anxiety Disorders;
- Personality Disorders;
- Personality Disorders;
- Department of Mental Health.

Teaching methods

Lessons and attendance of services of Department of Mental Health

Assessment methods and criteria

In progress evaluation isn't scheduled.
The final examination consists in a multiple choice test with 40 questions (included the 20 questions of nursing in mental health), concerning the program of the course The time available is 45 min. The exam has a positive result if the student gives the correct answers to at least 24 questions, which must include 12 of psychiatry and 12 of nursing. The final result depends on the number of the correct answers above the cut-off.
The final examination evaluates the student's knowledge, acquired during the study, about the ability to recognize mental disorders and to plan an adequate program of care or to refer subjects to Department of Mental Health.

Other information

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