Current active course description (last updated 2026/27)
Clinical Practice: Mental Health Nursing, Community and/or Specialist Health Care Services
PRA2076
Current active course description (last updated 2026/27)

Clinical Practice: Mental Health Nursing, Community and/or Specialist Health Care Services

PRA2076
The course builds on completed supervised professional training studies and theoretical courses. The student may meet patients of all ages who require mental health care.
Observation, assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and documentation as a clinical competence shall be further developed. Emphasis is placed on safeguarding the basic needs of patients. The student shall reflect on ethical issues seen in the context of applicable legislation/national guidelines and the significance this has/will have for the practicing of nursing in relation to people with mental health problems. In addition, the student shall have knowledge of nursing from a health-promoting perspective.
In addition to semester fees and literature on the reading list, expenses must be expected regarding additional housing, travel expenses etc related to supervised professional training, cf. Nord University’s guidelines.
Compulsory. Supervised professional training study

Practice the profession of nursing during supervised professional training, mainly with regard to patients with mental illness, under the supervision of nurses who are familiar with the course’s learning outcomes and who assess the student’s achievement of these. The student will perform tasks relating to the subject area during the supervised professional training studies.

The student will complete a self-assessment in respect of their own achievement of the learning outcomes.

Eight weeks of supervised professional training in the municipal and/or specialist health service

SPT - Examination: The student will practice the profession of nursing and their achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed throughout the process. In the event that there is a risk that the student will not pass, the student must be notified in writing at the time of the interim assessment or at least three weeks before the final assessment is due to take place, any shortcomings must be specified and documented and the student must be given the opportunity to work on these up until the final assessment.

An accurate assessment can be ensured through collaboration between the placement supervisor and the lecturer based on clear learning outcomes for which the student will also have the opportunity to assess themselves.

The following requirements must be met in order to pass the period of supervised professional training: 90% attendance during the supervised professional training

Achievement of learning outcomes

Approved written, practical and/or oral assignments Grading scale: Pass/fail

Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:

PRA2081 - Clinical Practice: Mental Health Nursing, Community and/or Specialist Health Care Services - 12 credits