Psychiatric Healthcare and Mental Health Nursing

Job description

When people are affected by psychiatric or neurological illnesses, their capacity for relationship-building, communication and their lifestyle changes. The aim of the nursing and care is to perceive, accompany, and together with an inter-professional team, to structure this person’s process of change professionally and competently. The objectives of psychiatric healthcare and nursing are the nursing and care, observation, accompaniment, promotion, employment, as well as follow-up care of people with acute- or chronically-mental disorders, dependency-related illnesses, impairment of intelligence and neurological illnesses in all ages and stages of development. Furthermore, the carers also work in rehabilitation and in health promotion and prevention.

How do you become a pyschiatric healthcare and mental health nursing professional?

Those wanting to specialise in psychiatric healthcare and mental health nursing after completing a bachelor's degree or diploma in healthcare and nursing can complete the higher education course (job-enabling) in psychiatric healthcare and mental health nursing at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria at the Med Campus V. Linz. The three-semester programme ends with the title “Academic Expert in Psychiatric Healthcare and Mental Health Nursing.” The course focuses on models and theories of psychiatric and neurological health and nursing, concepts for promoting mental health and prevention, specific aspects and fields of action in psychiatric and neurological healthcare and nursing. Internships enable an optimal transfer of theory into practice.