Practical training: Nursing sick elderly people in the ward
Structure Type:
Course
Code:
KFG11B036
Level:
Bachelor
Credits:
6.0 points
Responsible Teacher:
Hietaniemi, Elina
Teacher Team:
Lahti, Marita ; Hietaniemi, Elina
Language of Instruction:
Finnish
Learning Outcomes
Students will be introduced to the multi-professional nursing care of elderly patients in health centres and learn to follow ethical principles in their work. They will learn to observe the patients' vital functions, to meet their basic needs and, based on nursing process theory, to analyse, assess and promote the patients' comprehensive functional capacity. Under supervision, they will also learn to draw up practicable nursing plans and to use the electronic ICT in the health centre ward. Students will follow asepsis in their work and they will learn the essential nusing interventions to meet the patients' basic needs. Students will apply social work methods and nursing interventions, especially the helping relationship. They will reflect and analyse their learning experiences and professional growth in light of gerontological theory and their competence requirements. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to meet elderly patients' basic daily needs.
Student's Workload
Will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses
No previous studies are required.
Contents
- Monitoring the vital functions and meeting the basic needs of elderly patients
- Nursing of elderly patients, supporting holistic functional capacity
- Nursing process
- Presuppositions,aims, interventions and evaluation in nursing
- Nursing principles and their implementation
- Counselling and guidance of elderly patients and co-operation with their families
- Multi-professional collaboration in the care of elderly patients
- End-of-life care in health centres
- Quality of nursing and its constituents
Recommended or Required Reading
To be announced at the beginning of the course
Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
- Practical training in the ward of a health centre or similar unit
- Assignments
Assessment Criteria
Grading will be announced during the course.
Assessment Methods
Approved aims, set by the student for the practical training period, and self-evaluation based on the study themes and professional competence requirements, feedback from the supervisor (criteria: satisfactory, good, excellent), nursing plan assessed numerically, wound care assignment. Total numerical assessment based on the above mentioned criteria (1-5).