Competency aims:
The aim of the course is to
• Contribute to develop the student's competence in caring for patient's suffering from different kind of crisis, dependency, drug abuse and basic mental problems.
• The student develops her/his competence in the contextual clinical care. The student forms her/his competence in the assessment and care of the patient who needs emergency care.

Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to
• Identify, to encounter and to take care of patient's i different type of crisis and abuse problems.
• Recognizes and is able to encounter mental aspects in caring.
• Understand the principles of receiving a patient at the emergency room.
• Know the basics for in-hospital advanced resuscitation.

Course contents:
• Different types of crisis:
• crisis care
• crisis service
• different types of abuse problems
• basic knowledge in mental health care
• introduction to the emergency care
• relieving and assessing the patient with an acute emergency at the emergency room
• multiprofessional team work
• the chain of care: prehospital care - care at the emergency ward
• medication administration