Practical training: Nursing sick elderly people in the ward
Structure Type:
Course
Code:
KFG11BE036
Level:
Bachelor
Credits:
6.0 points
Responsible Teacher:
Hietaniemi, Elina
Teacher Team:
Lahti, Marita ; Hietaniemi, Elina
Language of Instruction:
Finnish
Learning Outcomes
Students will understand the role of health centres in the service provision system for elderly people and they will get to know the various departments of health centres. Students will learn to work as members of multi-professional teams in the nursing care of elderly patients in health centres and learn to follow ethical principles in their work. During the practical training, students will: learn to observe the patients' vital functions, to meet their basic needs and to analyse, assess and promote the patients' comprehensive functional capacity throughout the nursing process. Students will learn to draw up client-centres nursing plans and to use the electronic patient information systems 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 competence requirements.
Student's Workload
140 hours, including instructions and feedback after the practical training period and 20 hours of independent study
Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses
Nursing sick elderly people and end-of-life care 4 cr
Correct pharmaceutical calculations
Contents
- Monitoring the vital functions and meeting the basic needs of elderly patients
- Supporting functional capacity
- Nursing sick elderly patients; nursing process, presuppositions,aims, interventions and evaluation
- Nursing principles and their implementation
- Nursing documentation, other patient documentation and data transfer
- Counselling and guidance of elderly patients and co-operation with their families
- End-of-life care in health centres
- Multi-professional collaboration in the care of elderly patients
- Quality of nursing and its components
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
Level 1 (grade 1-2)
Students know what services health centres provide and they are able to work as members of multiprofessional teams in health centres. Students are able to work in a nursing relationship with elderly patients and seek contact with the patients' families. They know how to give oral and written report. Under supervision, they are able to draw up care and service plans for elderly patients. Under supervision, students are able to carry out common nursing procedures and drug care. They follow asepsis in their work. Under supervision, students are able to monitor elderly patients' vital functions. They have a positive attitude towards the practical training period. They can partly respond to the needs of sick elderly patients, but they still need encouragement and support from their supervisors.
Level 2 (grade 3-4)
Students understand how the services provided by health centres form a part of the care and service delivery system for elderly people. Students are able to work as active members of multiprofessional teams in health centres. They are able to establish a care relationship with elderly patients and to discuss with patients' families. They know how to give reliable oral and written reports. Students are able to draw up care and service plans for elderly patients. They are familiar with common nursing procedures and pharmaceutical care. They know how to monitor and evaluate the effects of nursing interventions and they follow asepsis in their work. Students have a positive attitude towards the practical training period and they actively interact with the staff of the placement. They relect on their professional growth. At the end of this training period, studens will be able to respond to the basic needs of elderly patients.
Level 3 (grade 5)
Students understand how the services provided by health centres form a part of the care and service delivery system for elderly people. Students are able to work as active members of multiprofessional teams in health centres. They are able to establish a care relationship with elderly patients and to actively discuss with patients' families. They know how to give reliable oral and written reports. In collaboration with families, students are able to draw up care and service plans for elderly patients. They are familiar with common nursing procedures and pharmaceutical care and they follow asepsis in their work.
They know how to monitor and evaluate the effects of nursing interventions on elderly patients. Students have a positive attitude towards the practical training period; they are constructively critical and co-operative. They relect on their professional growth profoundly. At the end of this training period, studens will be able to independently respond to the basic needs of elderly patients.
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. Total numerical assessment based on the above mentioned criteria (1-5).