The course is aimed at deepening specialized studies, but also at acquiring knowledge and methodologies concerning professional practice in the psychiatric field, with the aim of developing the ability to work in teams and in complex organizational contexts. In the context of the Department of Mental Health, nursing staff is today called upon to manage relief and rehabilitation projects of high technical and relational content, within a multidisciplinary approach of care. Treatment plans aimed at people suffering from mental disorders are structured according to the taking in charge in which biomedical interventions are flanked by a complex and personalized series of other interventions, including the nursing case manager, work with families, home interventions and in the social context of the patient. The nurse-patient relationship has its own specificities that distinguish it from other relationships that the patient establishes with other professional figures and seems to operate as a sort of glue that complements and amplifies the specificity of help coming from the other professional figures. The role of the nurse in the mental health services team has undergone profound changes in the last few years, and today the nurse has taken on important tasks and responsibilities. At the end of the module the student must acquire the knowledge related to taking charge of the person and his family in the context of specific priority health problems with particular regard to preventive, rehabilitative and educational aspects also within the community. The student will have to develop the therapeutic relationship as a shared intervention tool in the multidisciplinary field, he will have to identify, plan and evaluate the assistance interventions and collaborate with the other professional figures in the diagnostic-therapeutic pathways. He will have to know the basics related to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in psychiatry and mental health; be aware of his assistance role in group work in collaboration with other professional figures that make up the "team".
Course Prerequisites
Know the main psychiatric pathologies and foundations and methods of psychology.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons, interaction with students, videos to support teaching.
Assessment Methods
Verifications of the comprehension of the topics dealt through oral tests are foreseen.
Contents
1. Psychiatry over the centuries: the origins of psychiatric assistance 2. The fundamental legislative stages in the psychiatric field in the last century 3. Organization of the Mental Health Department 4. What is mental health/illness: the role of the nurse in mental health education 5. The role and responsibilities of the nurse in psychiatry: the multiprofessional team, the therapeutic relationship and the therapeutic project 6. Aggressiveness in psychiatry: how to deal with it 7. The subject who is the author of a crime 8. Urgency / emergency in psychiatry: the assistance management of the crisis 9. Nursing care in major psychiatric disorders: anxiety disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders, psychotic disorders, substance abuse disorders, eating disorders, aging disorders 10. Psychopharmacology: nursing responsibility and assistance problems 11. Urgency in developmental age 12. The Territorial Psychiatric Triage 13. The Case Managament methodology 14. The T.S.O. (mandatory health treatment) and its ethical-deontological implications 15. The restraint in psychiatry and its ethical-deontological implications
