Reproductive Health

Structure Type:	Course
Code:	KG29AO08001
Type:	Compulsory
Level:	Bachelor
Credits:	2.5 points
Responsible Teacher:	Palo, Raija
Teacher Team:	Mäki-Kojola, Tiina ; Mesiäislehto - Soukka, Helinä
Language of Instruction:	English

Course Implementations, Planned Year of Study and Semester

Curriculum	Semester	Credits	Start of Semester	End of Semester
NURSING-2013FIN	3 autumn	2.5	2015-08-01	2015-12-31
NURSING-2013FOR	3 autumn	2.5	2015-08-01	2015-12-31

Learning Outcomes

COMPETENCE IN HEALTH PROMOTION, COUNSELLING AND MENTORING COMPETENCE

Students are able to guide and support the health of childbearing families and to promote bonding between a newborn baby and its parents.

CLINICAL COMPETENCE AND INNOVATION COMPETENCE

Students are able to utilise care guidelines and multi-disciplinary research information as a basis for their work. They know the more common problems, examinations and treatments in reproductive health.

WORKING COMMUNITY COMPETENCE

Students are familiar with the social welfare and health care service system as regards children and youth and their families. They are competent in helping clients use the services appropriately.

ETHICAL COMPETENCE

Students care for children, youth and their families with respect and confidentiality.

Student's Workload

Will be announced at the beginning of the course.

Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses

No prerequisites

Children, youth and their families as clients in the social welfare and health care service system; the national and international development of the service provision system. Teaching and counselling in promoting the health of children, youth and their family members, as well as in supporting growth into parenthood, motherhood and fatherhood. Nursing pregnant women, women in labour and their families. Identification of family change and crisis and early intervention.
Common treatments and diagnostics for diseases and disorders of sexual and reproductive health.

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, field trip, independent study.

Assessment Criteria

5
Students
- plan, implement and evaluate comprehensively and professionally nursing care of families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium on excellent level
- know how to encounter multi-cultural families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium and assess nursing needs in different situations on excellent level
- know how to counsel families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium on health promotion and parenthood on excellent level
- on excellent level, know how to act in crisis situations faced by families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium
- on excellent level, assess factors that threaten women's sexual and reproductive health and plan, implement and evaluate nursing care based on evidence-based knowledge
- analyse critically the availability and function of services for expectant or childbearing families and propose well-argued improvements

3-4
Students
- plan, implement and evaluate comprehensively and professionally nursing care of families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium on good level
- know how to encounter multi-cultural families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium and assess nursing needs in different situations on good level
- know how to counsel families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium on health promotion and parenthood on good level
- know how to act in crisis situations faced by families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium
- on good level, assess factors that threaten women's sexual and reproductive health and plan, implement and evaluate nursing care based on evidence-based knowledge
- to some extent, critically analyse the availability and function of services for expectant or childbearing families and propose some improvements

1-2
Students
- plan, implement and evaluate nursing care of families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium on satisfactory level
- partly know how to encounter multi-cultural families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium and assess nursing needs in different situations
- know how to counsel families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium on health promotion and parenthood
- know how to act in some crisis situations faced by families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium
- to some extent, know how to assess factors that threaten women's sexual and reproductive health and plan, implement and evaluate nursing care based on evidence-based knowledge
- examine the availability and function of services for expectant or childbearing families, propose few improvements

Fail = 0
Students
- do not know how to plan, implement and evaluate nursing care of families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium
- do not know how to encounter multi-cultural families
- do not know how to counsel families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium
- are not able to deal with crisis situations
- do not know how to assess factors that threaten women's sexual and reproductive health or use evidence-based knowledge
- do not examine the availability or function of services for expectant or childbearing families, and are unable to propose improvements

Assessment Methods

Active participation, examination.

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