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Nursing Service Administration

This course is designed to introduce students to the management principles, strategies and theories used in professional nursing practice. The focus is on understanding

health care delivery systems at the local and national levels and the development of the skills needed within the context of health services delivery in institutional or community settings. 

Course Code: 
NUR 412
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Mental Health Nursing

Psychotherapies

This course is set out to train students to attain a level of skill using psychological interventions. Content of training in psychological interventions will include the use of functional analysis in assessment, simple behavioural strategies, such as activity scheduling and reinforcement, cognitive methods for dealing with hallucinations and delusions, principles of evaluation using simple and reliable measures. The course will place much emphasis on Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT).

Course Code: 
MHN 411
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Mental Health Nursing

Interventions in Dual Diagnosis

This course will provide students with the knowledge of interventions needed to care for populations who have comorbid substance misuse with mental illness (dual diagnosis). Given that this condition is very prevalent in mental health institutions and community services, it is important to offer mental health nurses training in this area. Content will include definition of dual diagnosis, common forms of dual diagnosis, assessment, treatment models and application of the nursing process.

Course Code: 
MHN 409
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Mental Health Nursing

Developing Counselling and Helping Skills

This course is aimed at enabling students acquire the skills of counselling in order that they can provide support and guidance to patients, individuals and families in

relation to mental health. Content will include definitions of counselling, counselling processes, types of counselling, skills of a counsellor, theoretical orientation, qualities

of a counsellor and ethical considerations for practice. The role of the nurse in counselling will also be explored.

 

Course Code: 
MHN 405
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Mental Health Nursing

Recovery and Rehabilitation in Mental Health

The aim of this course is to enable students to demonstrate awareness of the inherent problems of prolonged hospitalisation and benefits of early discharge. The course includes the concept of deinstitutionalisation and factors which prolong dependency in the individual. Concept of psychiatric rehabilitation and the wider implications relating to the process of normalisation of clients with enduring mental health needs will be explored. Emphasis will be laid on assessment methods, the social support systems and agencies that may be utilised in the process of rehabilitation and settlement.  The course also includes the use of appropriate health education techniques and effective teaching skills to improve client/service user care and promote mental health. 

Course Code: 
MHN 401
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Mental Health Nursing

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Students swearing the UCCSMS Oath

UCCSMS Holds 10th White Coat Ceremony

20 Aug, 2019 By louis Mensah

The School of Medical Sciences (UCCSMS) has held the 10th White Coat Ceremony with a call on medical students to be humble and compassionate whiles they enter into the clinical stages of their studies.
    
The White Coat Ceremony is a rite of passage event which is organised as a transition for medical students from the theory component to the practical phase of their training
The ceremony symbolises the medical profession and forms an integral part of the UCCSMS calendar.

The ceremony is reserved for students who have gone through the recognised number of years in pre-clinical training but are at the threshold of full clinical training in the medical school.

Speaking at the function, the Chairman of the Medical and Dental Council, Professor Paul Kwame Nyame, noted that the clinical component of would practically expose them to the medical profession, hence they were expected to be ethical in their relationship with the people they would interact with. 
 

Call to Practice Medicine is a Call to Serve Humanity


 “It is important for medical practitioners to learn that the call to practice medicine is a call to serve humanity. Truly honorable men and women respect the opportunity society is giving you to develop into sons of respectability and accolade the profession has earned with years of service to mankind,” he intimated.

Prof. Nyame advised the medical students to respect the privacy of their patients they come into contact with since they could also find themselves in their condition.


Caring for Patients


On her part, the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh, said the white coat should remind the medical students of their responsibilities to offer quality care to their patients stressing that “The white coat signifies the virtues of altruism, responsibility, duty, honor, respect, and compassion”.

Prof. Edu-Buandoh called on them to perform their duties with honour as trained medical students of the University of Cape Coast. 
 

Be Guided by the Tenets of the Medical Profession

    
The Dean of the UCC Medical School, Prof. Ivy A. E. Ekem, entreated the students to be guided by the tenets of the medical profession by reflecting on the core values of the profession. “Respect the sanctity of human lives; be committed to competence; respect the dignity of patients; be aware of the profession’s inherent limitations and above all, strive to balance personal and professional behaviours. She beseeched them.

She asked them to make reference to the core values daily to enable them to stand out in the medical profession. With the right attitudes, you can be knowledgeable and approachable,” she advised.


Medical Profession Comparable to the Ministry of Jesus Christ


The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Dr. Eric Ngyedu, reminded the medical students that their profession was comparable to the Ministry of Jesus Christ in the Bible and, therefore, they should have a compassionate heart bearing in mind that the patient was a fellow creature in pain. He counseled that “Teaching, preaching, and healing should be your lot”.

The Registrar of MDC, Dr. Eli Atikpui, administered the UCC Matriculation Oath to the medical students.
 

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