Degree Programme in Midwifery
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 31.07.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
25 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
5 - 20
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Marjatta Häsänen
Groups
-
MKATIS24Degree Programme in Midwifery, Part-Time Studies, Turku, Autumn 2024
Objective
The student:
• Can work independently and as a member of a multi-professional team in midwifery
• Develops and deepens their expertise in the planning, implementation, recording and evaluation of midwifery in different operating environments
• Acts in accordance with the code of ethics for midwifery and complies with the applicable legislation
• Can follow aseptic requirements
• Knows the key contents and methods of pharmacotherapy related to midwifery and implements pharmacotherapy safely
• Students will deepen their guidance skills in sexual and reproductive health questions regarding the woman and her family.
• Masters the treatment and guidance in connection with a normal pregnancy
• Can identify high-risk pregnancies and refer a woman to further treatment if necessary
• Can monitor and treat pregnant women and foetuses in high-risk pregnancies
• Develops independently in treating low-risk childbirths at different stages of the childbirth process
• Can work as a midwifery expert in a high-risk childbirth care team
• Can immediately monitor and treat the new-born and, if necessary, initiate CPR
• Students will master the monitoring, guidance and care of women after childbirth.
• Students will master the care of healthy newborn babies.
• Can support a woman and her family in the development of early interaction and breastfeeding
• Can carry out intensive care of a new-born as part of a multi-professional care team
• Can carry out the treatment process for a gynaecological patient
• Masters the guidance of a gynaecological patient and family members
• Can support a woman and her family in managing a life cycle crisis
• Can document a woman’s and family’s nursing care reliably in different information systems
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development in a care environment
Content
• Traineeship units as study units in accordance with EU/2005 directives
• Supervised midwifery internship in units carrying out nursing work for pregnant women, mothers giving/who have given birth, healthy new-borns, new-borns requiring intensive care or gynaecological patients
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.12.2024
Timing
01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
20 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Marjatta Häsänen
Groups
-
MKATIS24Degree Programme in Midwifery, Part-Time Studies, Turku, Autumn 2024
Objective
The student:
• Can work independently and as a member of a multi-professional team in midwifery
• Develops and deepens their expertise in the planning, implementation, recording and evaluation of midwifery in different operating environments
• Acts in accordance with the code of ethics for midwifery and complies with the applicable legislation
• Can follow aseptic requirements
• Knows the key contents and methods of pharmacotherapy related to midwifery and implements pharmacotherapy safely
• Students will deepen their guidance skills in sexual and reproductive health questions regarding the woman and her family.
• Masters the treatment and guidance in connection with a normal pregnancy
• Can identify high-risk pregnancies and refer a woman to further treatment if necessary
• Can monitor and treat pregnant women and foetuses in high-risk pregnancies
• Develops independently in treating low-risk childbirths at different stages of the childbirth process
• Can work as a midwifery expert in a high-risk childbirth care team
• Can immediately monitor and treat the new-born and, if necessary, initiate CPR
• Students will master the monitoring, guidance and care of women after childbirth.
• Students will master the care of healthy newborn babies.
• Can support a woman and her family in the development of early interaction and breastfeeding
• Can carry out intensive care of a new-born as part of a multi-professional care team
• Can carry out the treatment process for a gynaecological patient
• Masters the guidance of a gynaecological patient and family members
• Can support a woman and her family in managing a life cycle crisis
• Can document a woman’s and family’s nursing care reliably in different information systems
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development in a care environment
Content
• Traineeship units as study units in accordance with EU/2005 directives
• Supervised midwifery internship in units carrying out nursing work for pregnant women, mothers giving/who have given birth, healthy new-borns, new-borns requiring intensive care or gynaecological patients
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 04.09.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 15.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Sanna Virtanen
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
The student:
• Knows the basics of the structure, functioning and regulation of the organ systems of the human body and the factors behind them
Content
Contents
• Cell functions, embryology, types of body tissue and skin structure
• Structure and functions of the musculoskeletal system
• Structure and functions of the heart and the circulatory system, blood, the immune system
• Structure and functions of the respiratory system
• Structure and functions of the urinary system, fluid balance
• Structure and functions of the digestive system
• Hormonal action, metabolism, structure and functions of the sexual organs
• Structure and functions of the nervous system
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
01.04.2024 - 08.09.2024
Timing
26.08.2024 - 20.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Virtual portion
2 op
RDI portion
3 op
Mode of delivery
75 % Contact teaching, 25 % Distance learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Seats
10 - 25
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Tiina Murto
Groups
-
PKÄTIS21
Objective
The student:
• Gets training in independent work and teamwork
• Can act in accordance with the principles of research ethics
• Can manage partnerships responsibly
• Can develop and demonstrate the capacity to apply their knowledge and skills in expert tasks related to professional studies
• Recognises the need for guidance and can to utilise guidance in a way that promotes their thesis
• Can present the progress of their work, as well as provide and receive constructive feedback
• Demonstrates their familiarity with the field of their thesis and language skills
• Can implement a working life-oriented research and development project
• Can document their work and communicate the results
• Can report and produce a written thesis
• Publishes their thesis according to instructions
Content
Contents
• Progress, implementation and reporting of the thesis in a guided and planned manner
• Presenting and defending the thesis and opposing another thesis as agreed
• Maturity test
• Publication of the thesis
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 18.11.2024
Timing
18.11.2024 - 15.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
The student:
• Can meet patients individually as experts and subjects in their own lives.
• Students will know how to work in compliance with the values, principles and key regulations of nursing
• Know the key sources of reliable data and how to apply these sources in providing patients with comprehensive care
• Students will be able to interact with patients and their family members in a professional manner
• Participate in professional cooperation
• Learn how to apply the aseptic technique and how to work ergonomically in compliance with the principles of occupational and patient safety
• Know how the pharmacotherapy plan is applied in the process of performing pharmacotherapy
• Be able to assess the resources and condition of patients
• Be able to define patients’ needs for care and to make individual treatment plans
• Be able to apply common nursing assistance methods appropriately
• Students will learn how to adopt a patient-driven approach and support their resources
• Students will be able to monitor the nutrition and diets of patients and to identify any risks related to their nutrition
• Students will be able to recognize, assess and treat the pain experienced by patients
• Know how to perform pharmacotherapy according to the physician’s instructions and have the required dosage calculation skills
• Learn various modes of performing and administering pharmacotherapy
• Learn the reporting and documentation practices required in the patient’s treatment process
• Students will know how to use the medication passport in assessing their own pharmacotherapy skills
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development in a care environment
Content
Contents
• Individual and respectful treatment of patients, assessing the needs for care, planning and performing treatment
• Working in a multiprofessional working group
• Performing pharmacotherapy
• Determining the patient’s level of nutrition and related care
• Patient counselling and training methods
• Self-care support and commitment to treatment
• Nursing process and structural documentation
• Rehabilitation and follow-up care
• Occupational and patient safety
• Ethical and responsible activities
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
23.08.2024 - 27.08.2024
Timing
26.08.2024 - 25.10.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
7 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- English
Seats
10 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Jaana Koskela
- Nita Björklöf
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
Student:
• Knows the key concepts of nursing
• Knows the values and principles guiding nursing
• Knows the principles of professional interaction and cooperation
• Uses the nursing process to make decisions and record nursing work
• Uses the national nursing work recording model to record nursing work
• Knows the key principles of patient safety
• Can ensure patient safety in their own operations and in the work community
• Can assess the patient’s resources and care needs, define the patient’s care needs and objectives, and plan and implement key methods of assistance innursing, promoting the customer’s/patient’s resources
• Students will know the ethical values and principles of nursing elderly people, and values old age as a stage in life
• Students will acknowledge and know how to identify any changes related to old age
• Students will acknowledge and know how to use the methods of nursing related to assessing and maintaining the health, functional capacity and resources of the elderly
• Students will become familiar with common memory disorders and the related treatment and service chains
• Students will know the importance of nutrition for elderly persons
• Students can plan, implement and evaluate safe and effective pharmacotherapy for the elderly
• Students will know how to support and guide family members in the treatment of elderly patients
• Knows the principles of aseptic work, ergonomics, pain and chronic wound care and can apply the information in nursing work
• Can systematically assess the need for immediate treatment and can act in situations requiring immediate first aid
• Knows the principles and can function as a nurse in connection with death
• Knows the key methods, prerequisites and implementation of examining a person
• Interacts with the customer and the work community
• Knows what treatment-related infections and management of infection risks mean: hand hygiene, use of protective equipment, safe care environment
• Knows microbiology and basics, and the meaning of immunity and defence system
• Knows the purpose and knowledge base of vaccination
Content
Content
• Key concepts of nursing
• Values, principles and key concepts that steer nursing
• Professional interaction and clear communications
• Nursing process, decision-making in nursing and documentation in nursing
• Starting points for patient safety and arranging a safe care environment
• Information security and data protection
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• Patient monitoring
• Assisting in daily activities
• Common methods of assisting and treatment methods required in nursing
• Tissue integrity, prevention of bedsores and treatment of chronic wounds
• Elderly care, gerontology, geriatrics and pharmacology
• Changes related to old age
• Risk factors that indicate declining functional capacity of elderly patients
• Assessment of the functional capacity and resources of the elderly and provision of support in different environments
• Nutrition of the elderly and how to ensure proper nutrition and provide related instructions in different circumstances
• Memory disorders and nursing of patients with memory disorders
• Legislation concerning the treatment of the elderly and the services required by the elderly: home care and other services provided at the homes of the elderly
• Safe and effective administration of pharmacotherapy for the elderly
• Supporting the involvement of family members in the treatment of elderly patients
• Pain assessment and unmedicated pain management methods
• First aid and basic resuscitation
• Interaction and communication competence
• Clinical examination of a patient following the ABCDE principles
• Key methods for examining people: interview, anamnesis, inspection, palpation, auscultation, percussion, observation and indicators
• Preconditions of good clinical examinations and their implementation: general condition, breathing, circulation, consciousness, excretion, musculoskeletal system, skin
• Aseptic techniques, infection prevention, hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Resistance and immunisation, infection risk management and hygiene recommendations
• The most common treatment-related infections and the microbes causing them
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
01.06.2024 - 08.09.2024
Timing
09.09.2024 - 27.10.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
10 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Johanna Kurtti
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
The student:
• Students will be familiar with nutrients and understand the need and significance of nutrients
• Students will be able to assess the nutritional needs of people
• Students will know how to apply the Finnish nutrition recommendations in the prevention and treatment of national diseases
Content
Contents
• Nutritional needs and the roles of nutrients in the human organism
• Assessment of the nutritional status of customers and the importance of the assessment
• The importance of diets that comply with the dietary guidelines in promoting health and preventing endemic diseases
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 12.09.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Reino Tissari
- Sanna Ojala
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
• Students will comprehend the importance of ethical perspectives, legislation and evidence-based knowledge in decision-making regarding pharmacotherapy
• Students will understand the role of occupational and patient safety in pharmacotherapy and know how to act in order to promote medication safety in different phases of pharmacotherapy according to the pharmacotherapy plan
• Students will know how to describe effective, safe, efficient, appropriate and economic pharmaceutical services and pharmacotherapy in the context of social welfare and health care
• Students will know the roles and responsibilities of different professional groups and medication users in the provision of pharmacotherapy
• Students will become familiar with the basics of pharmacology and pharmacy required in nursing
• Students will know the responsibilities and duties of nurses as medication administrators throughout the treatment process
• Students will know the reliable evidence-based sources of information in pharmacotherapy and how to apply them
• Students will know how to perform pharmacotherapy by using various routes of administration safely and applying the aseptic technique and how to use the required instruments correctly
• Students will know how to perform pharmacotherapy according to the physician’s instructions and have the mathematical skills and dosage calculation skills required in pharmacotherapy
• Students will understand the objectives of pharmacotherapy and the significance of personal guidance and commitment to pharmacotherapy in the patient’s overall treatment regimen
• Students can assess their own pharmacotherapy skills with the medication passport
Content
Contents:
• Key regulations and basics of ethics
• Guidance and supervision of pharmacotherapy
• Safety of medicinal products and pharmacotherapy
• Key concepts and sources of information of pharmacotherapy
• Doses of medications and how they affect the body
• Pharmaceutical forms and administration methods
• Primary adverse reactions and interaction with other medicinal products
• Pharmacotherapy plan and the safety of the pharmacotherapy process
• Pharmacotherapy equipment and aseptic techniques
• Documentation
• Guidance and counselling
• Dosage calculation
• The role of the medication passport in assessing your competence
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.12.2024
Timing
01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
1 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Seija Kirkko-Jaakkola
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
The student:
• Can advise patients in preparing for examinations and after the examination
• Becomes familiar with the most common laboratory tests and know how to describe their significance
• Can take high-quality samples and interpret them.
• Become familiar with the most common clinical physiology examinations of internal medicine patients and the related role of nursing
Content
Contents
• The most common laboratory tests (blood and urine tests)
• Preparation of patients and the importance of it
• Patient guidance during specimen collection
• Standardisation and quality management of specimen collection
• Collection of venous and skin puncture specimens
• Collection of urine specimens and chemical screening of urine
• Complications in specimen collection
• Storage and transportation of specimens
• Point-of-care testing and the quality management of point-of-care instruments
• Guidance of patients and preparation for examinations
• The most common clinical physiology examinations (e.g. ECG registration)
• Nursing in the administration of examinations
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 25.03.2025
Timing
24.03.2025 - 18.04.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
The student:
· Knows the key values of nursing, ethical principles and professional ethics guidelines for nurses and midwives, as well as key legislation governing nursing
· Can act in accordance with the values and ethical principles of nursing and can assess their implementation
· Gets to know the responsibilities and tasks of nurses and midwives
· Knows what is meant by evidence-based operations in nursing
· Can search for evidence-based information in the most common health science databases
· Knows the decision-making process of customer-oriented nursing and its connection with evidence-based operations
Content
Contents
• Key concepts of nursing ethics
• Professional ethics of nurses and midwives
• Identifying and addressing ethical problems
• Ethical decision making and operation in nursing
• Nursing science as a discipline
• Evidence-based operations
• Data retrieval and management
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.12.2024
Timing
01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Heli Aarnio
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Objective
The student:
• Can support parenthood during pregnancy or after childbirth
• Know how to pay attention to the special characteristics of maternity nursing in public health nursing
• Practice monitoring and counselling methods during pregnancy and after childbirth
• Can promote the sexual health of people of different ages
• Can apply the knowledge base of nursing children, young people and families when caring for children of different ages in a family-oriented manner and promoting health
• Can pay attention to the special characteristics of nursing children and adolescents
• Practises their proficiency in determining the need for child or adolescent nursing and the related processes of planning, implementation and evaluation
• Know how to administer pharmacotherapy for people of different ages
• Practise supporting and counseling children, adolescents and families in different situations concerning health and illness
• Practise decision-making in nursing together with the child, adolescent or family and with various professional groups
• Can support the resources of children, young people and families to promote health
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development in a care environment
Content
Contents
• Development of parenthood and various modes of support
• Various monitoring and counselling situations and methods during pregnancy and the postpartum period
• Addressing sexuality
• Sexual education and the related methods
• Applying the knowledge base of public health nursing of children and adolescents in nursing by paying attention to children of different ages, adolescents and their families
• Practising the public health nursing methods of supporting the growth and development of children and adolescents
• Applying evidence-based information in the public health nursing activities of children and adolescents
• Pharmacotherapy and vaccinations of people of different ages
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 06.01.2025
Timing
06.01.2025 - 02.03.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Saimi Ristimäki
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 16. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 16. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The students:
• Students will learn the physiological basics of intravenous medication, fluid therapy and nutritional care
• Students will learn the responsibilities and roles of nurses as medication administrators at the different phases of intravenous fluid therapy, medication and nutritional care
• Students will be able to identify the need for fluid therapy and parenteral nutrition and plan, perform and evaluate their safe administration
• Students will be able to use reliable pharmacotherapy databases in the planning, provision and evaluation of intravenous pharmacotherapy, fluid therapy and nutritional care
• Students can prepare and dose intravenous medications and can make the required dose calculations according to the physician’s instructions
• Students will understand the indications for using venous catheters and the operating principle and maintenance of venous catheters and know how to perform intravenous pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy in an aseptic and safe manner
• Students will learn to monitor patients and evaluate the effects and effectiveness of intravenous pharmacotherapy
• Students will know the basics of blood transfusion and how to perform a blood transfusion
Content
Contents
• Physiology of fluid therapy
• Infusion fluids, intravenous medications and parenteral fluids
• Operating methods that promote patient and occupational safety and infection prevention in fluid therapy
• Pharmacotherapy plan and the pharmacotherapy process in intravenous pharmacotherapy
• Fluid therapy plan, fluid balance and documentation
• Indications for using various venous catheters and their operating principles and maintenance
• Preparing and administering intravenous medications
• Blood products and blood transfusion
• Pharmacotherapy technology
• Key sources of information in pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy
• Dosage calculation
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
15.05.2024 - 08.09.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 30.09.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
15 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
10 - 25
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Tiina Murto
Groups
-
PKÄTIS21
Objective
The student:
• Deepens their knowledge and skills in defining, planning, implementing and assessing a patient’s treatment needs.
• Can support and guide the patient and their family members
• Is trained to make decisions that require expertise in nursing with the patient and other professional groups, and can support the patient’s resources to promote their health.
• Has understood the ethics and value base of nursing, and bases their operations on up-to-date information
• Deepens their pharmacotherapy competence in different fields of nursing
• Knows the specificities of clinical nursing and related recording of information
• Is able to operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of a patient’s treatment needs
• Patient pharmacotherapy
• Ethical challenges related to nursing
• Patient guidance and recording of information
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.01.2025
Timing
26.05.2025 - 29.06.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
15 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Heli Aarnio
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS22
Objective
The student:
• Deepens their knowledge and skills in defining, planning, implementing and assessing a patient’s treatment needs.
• Can support and guide the patient and their family members
• Is trained to make decisions that require expertise in nursing with the patient and other professional groups, and can support the patient’s resources to promote their health.
• Has understood the ethics and value base of nursing, and bases their operations on up-to-date information
• Deepens their pharmacotherapy competence in different fields of nursing
• Knows the specificities of clinical nursing and related recording of information
• Is able to operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of a patient’s treatment needs
• Patient pharmacotherapy
• Ethical challenges related to nursing
• Patient guidance and recording of information
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 30.11.2024
Timing
24.10.2024 - 08.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Camilla Laaksonen
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
The students will be able to:
· Describe a health-based approach as the basis for nursing and midwifery
· Describe current challenges related to the health and well-being of the population
· Outline the whole set of health and social services and the meaning of legislation that guides services
· Search for information and guide clients in different life situations to social and health care services
· Recognise the importance of multi-professionalism from the perspective of service needs
· Describe the principles of sustainable development, taking into account ecological, economic, social and cultural sustainability, and the capital they generate
Content
Contents
• Health orientation in midwife work, health and health orientation as concepts, inclusion, empowerment, resource orientation and midwives as health promoters
• Customer-oriented social and health services, health and well-being of the population (current challenges and factors affecting them)
• Promoting health and functional capacity, and preventing illnesses and accidents
• The social and health care system and itsdevelopment, financing, responsibilities, supervision and customer/patient rights
• Social and health care services and directing customers to them
• Sustainable activities in midwifery work, subareas of sustainable development: ecological sustainability, economic sustainability, social sustainability, cultural sustainability
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 11.10.2024
Timing
07.10.2024 - 08.11.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
7 op
Virtual portion
2 op
RDI portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
72 % Contact teaching, 28 % Distance learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Elina Santala
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
· Masters mental health promotion as the starting point for all mental health work
· Knows the mental health and substance abuser care service system and can work in multi-professional networks
· Can identify the needs of mental health and substance abuse patients, address problems and guide the patients to appropriate care, record the treatment needs, plan and implement treatment, assess its effects and draw the necessary conclusions.
· Identifies key mental disorders and knows the starting points for their treatment
· Identifies the treatment needs and starting points of patients of different ages
· Can operate in the nursing of mental health care and substance abuser patients by promoting occupational and patient safety
· Understands the importance of ethical guidelines, values, principles and laws as guiding factors in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
· Can use mental health and substance abuse treatment methods in accordance with the principles of recovery orientation
· Understands the importance of treatment relationships and work guidance, and can support and guide the patient and their family members
· Know how to administer different modes of biological treatment safely and effectively, including pharmacotherapy, and how to provide psychosocial care in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
· Understands that a crisis is part of a person’s normal development, and can define the needs of trauma-focused care
· Understand the importance of expertise by experience in the development of comprehensive treatment
Content
Contents
Basics of mental health nursing
· Concept of positive mental health
· Mental health in society and components of mental health
· Care-related interaction (attitudes, ethics, professional interaction)
· Service system expertise
· National and international projects that aim to promote mental health
· Process of involuntary treatment, seeking treatment voluntarily
· An empowering approach to work
· Facing a psychotic patient
· Crisis work
· Motivational interview and mini-intervention
· Referring patients to treatment
· Psychoactive medications
· Common mental disorders and how to diagnose and treat them
· Addictions
· The health effects and excessive use of alcohol
· Common narcotic substances, how to identify their usage
Post-pregnancy and postpartum period
· Promoting mental health during maternity
· Mental health assessment during pregnancy and after childbirth
· Identifying and treating postpartum depression
· Building an attachment relationship between mother and child
Children, adolescents and their families
· Childhood development and mental health
· Common mental health problems of children and adolescents
· Family support
The elderly
· Common mental health challenges and disorders of the elderly
· Substance abuse problems of the elderly
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
12.09.2024 - 28.02.2025
Timing
24.02.2025 - 20.04.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
7 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Marjatta Häsänen
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKÄTIS22
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
· Can plan, implement, record and evaluate the basic and obstetric care of the woman giving birth at all stages of childbirth
· Understands the course of childbirth and the changes in it from the point of view of the woman giving birth and the foetus
· Can guide, advise and care for women giving birth and their families
· Can independently plan and implement pain relief during childbirth using nursing methods
· Can administer medical pain relief during childbirth in cooperation with a doctor
· Can independently handle low-risk childbirths
· Can anticipate and identify low-risk childbirths that turn into high-risk births
· Can act as a member of a multi-professional team in high-risk childbirths
· Can prevent, identify and intervene in time in connection with changes in a new-born’s health
· Can care for a new-born
· Learns about the causes, symptoms and care of pathological pregnancies and deliveries and know how to act appropriately.
· Knows the most important and up-to-date pharmacology in the field
· Can interpret cardiotochography
· Students will learn to assist the parturient woman in cases of shoulder dystocia.
· Can stitch tears caused by childbirth and episiotomy
Content
Contents
• Midwifery at Different Stages of Parturition
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of normal childbirth care in various operating environments
• Assessment of the condition of the foetus and monitoring methods
• Pain relief during childbirth
• Clinical skills of midwifery during childbirth
• Stitching of tears caused by childbirth and episiotomy
• Assessment and monitoring of the new-born’s health after childbirth and during intensified observation
• Emergency care of new-borns
• Support for early interaction and first-time breastfeeding
• Midwifery in high-risk deliveries
• Changes in the condition of the foetus and the parturient woman
• Problems in childbirth
• Clinical skills in high-risk deliveries
• The areas of responsibility and operation of different professional groups in a complicated delivery
• Obstetrics and Pharmacology
• Pathological pregnancy
• Interpretation of cardiotochography
• Shoulder dystocia
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
12.09.2024 - 19.01.2025
Timing
13.01.2025 - 09.03.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Marjatta Häsänen
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKÄTIS22
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
· Can advise, guide and care for a woman and family in planning a pregnancy and as it progresses
· Can monitor the well-being of the woman and the foetus during pregnancy
· Can prevent, anticipate and identify risk factors and complications of pregnancy
· Can monitor the well-being of the woman and the foetus during a risky pregnancy and participate in treatment as a member of a multi-professional team
Content
Contents
• Pregnancy planning
• Support for growing up into parenthood
• Family and childbirth education
• Prenatal Monitoring and Consultancy
• Pregnancy diagnosis and progress, prenatal changes
• Embryology
• Monitoring and care of low-risk pregnancies
• Screenings
• Foetal diagnostics
• Prenatal health advice
• Monitoring and treatment of high-risk pregnancies
• High-risk pregnancies
• Prenatal complications
• Monitoring and treatment of high-risk pregnancies
• Support for growing up into parenthood in high-risk pregnancies
• Fear of childbirth
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.01.2025
Timing
07.01.2025 - 31.05.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Heli Aarnio
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Objective
The student:
• Practises planning, implementation and evaluation of customer-centric care and guidance in various projects and/or different nursing environments
• Learns to help and support people dealing with acute and long-term health changes and becomes aware of their own resources and limits of competence
• Learn to work in multiprofessional work groups
• Commit themselves to entrepreneurial activities in various care environments
• Learn to apply evidence-based information and use it to nursing care of patients/customers and its development
• Learns project work skills in social and/or health care assignments
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Project-like work
• Working in multisectoral teams
• Practising key nursing activities according to the learning environment and the needs of customers/patients
• Practising the basics of empowering guidance of the customer/patient and their family member
• Implementation of evidence-based nursing and guidance
• Knowing the structure of the health and social services system and practising service guidance for the customer/patient and their family member
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 31.10.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Objective
The student:
• Can define the nursing needs of mental health and substance abuse customers/patients, plan and implement treatment, assess its effectiveness
• Can meet and help customers/patients of different ages and their loved ones.
• Familiarise themselves with mental health and substance abuse treatment methods, care relationships and teamwork, and learn how to use work guidance to support their professional development
• Can examine the importance of one’s own values and attitudes in meeting customers/patients of different ages, and in professional interaction
• Has understood the ethics of nursing and bases their operations on up-to-date information
• Increases their medical treatment expertise in mental health and substance abuse treatment
• Can record information about the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
Content
Contents
• Planning, implementation, evaluation and recording of evidence-based mental health and substance abuse treatment work and guidance
• Traineeships in key activities of mental health and substance abuse treatment in accordance with the learning environment and the needs of patients/customers
• Practising the clinical examination of patients and therapeutic, empowering interaction with a patient/customer
• Getting to know different methods of mental health and substance abuse treatment, nursing and teamwork, as well as work control
• Knowledge of the structure of the mental health and substance abuse service system
• Deepening the basics of pharmacotherapy and mental health care
• Is able to operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development in a care environment
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.01.2025
Timing
01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
75 % Contact teaching, 25 % Distance learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Seats
10 - 40
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Satu Haapalainen
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
• Knows the principles guiding the nursing of children, as well as the status and rights of a child
• Is familiar with the development of a healthy child
• Can monitor and promote growth and development, and identify deviations
• Can support parenting, and identify resources and risk factors
• Can guide children and families, as well as utilise health technology
• Can act in a manner that promotes patient safety
• Can search for and apply evidence-based information
• Can define and record the nursing needs of a child patient, plan and implement nursing work, and assess the effectiveness of treatment
• Become familiar with common diseases of children and adolescents, as well as their prevention, treatment and rehabilitation methods
• Knows the resuscitation and advanced life support of a child
• Knows the pharmacological grounds for the treatment of children, and can administer safe drug and fluid therapy for child patients
Content
Contents
• Laws on children, regulations, children’s rights and ethical principles of the nursing of children
• Meeting and guiding a child and family
• Forms and methods of family nursing work
• Monitoring the growth and development of healthy children and young people, and deviations in development
• Basic care of the child
• The most common children’s diseases, surgical problems, infectious diseases and long-term illnesses and their treatment, rehabilitation and recording of information
• Clinical examination of child patients and the use of various assessment methods to support clinical decision-making
• Preparing a child for a procedure
• The most common medical procedures for children and adolescents, patient observation, and pain management
• Use of nursing technology
• Resuscitation and advanced life support of children
• Pharmacology for children and adolescents, as well as planning, implementation and evaluation of pharmacotherapy
• Planning, administration and assessment of fluid therapy for children
• Medical bills
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 02.03.2025
Timing
01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Sanna Ojala
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
• Knows perioperative patients’ treatment path and can describe the patient’s perioperative
treatment process
• Knows the principles of asepsis, and masters the principles and methods of infection control in the surgery ward
• Can work in the multi-professional working group for surgery and anaesthesia treatment at different stages of perioperative nursing, and knows the key factors influencing successful teamwork
• Knows the values and basic principles of surgical and anaesthetic nursing and can justify their operations with up-to-date research data?
• Knows the specific characteristics of the patient’s pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy and can utilise them in patient care???
• Knows the most common methods of anaesthesia and pain management?
• Can prepare the patient for anaesthesia and procedures?
• Can use key examination, monitoring and treatment equipment used in anaesthetic and surgical treatment of surgery patients, and can interpret and act on the information obtained from them??
• Can report and record information at different stages of perioperative treatment?
• Recognises the specificities of perioperative patient guidance and support?
• Recognises the safety risks of the surgery and anaesthesia ward, and can ensure operational safety?
• Knows the duties of a nurse assisting in anaesthesia, supervision and surgery, and is practising them
• Can monitor and treat the patient during intraoperative treatment and in the recovery room
Content
Contents
• Perioperative nursing (organisation, tasks and areas of responsibility in team work, care environment)
• Ethical principles of surgical wards
• Patient and occupational safety in a surgery ward (e.g. infection control, asepsis, cleanliness categories, equipment safety, reporting and recording, use of checklists)
• Disinfection and sterilisation methods in perioperative nursing
• Aseptic techniques of surgical wards
• Nursing the patient before and during the procedure: different roles, tasks and teamwork of a nurse
• Common treatment equipment, instruments and sutures and assisting in a surgery
• Roles and tasks of the surgical team, as well as preparations before a procedure (booking instruments and medical supplies, surgical hand disinfection, dressing in sterile outfits, preparing the surgical position, disinfection of the surgical area and delimitation of the surgical area)
• Key anaesthetic methods and the pharmaceutical products used therein, as well as their
effects and stages in the body
• Preparing for anaesthesia (booking drugs, patient monitoring equipment
and preparation of the anaesthetic workstation)?
• Monitoring and nursing of an anaesthetised patient in the operating room and recovery room
• Pharmacotherapy and liquid therapy during anaesthesia and in the recovery room
• Patient monitoring and nursing in the recovery room and criteria for transferring to an inpatient ward
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 08.04.2025
Timing
21.04.2025 - 25.05.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
The student:
• Can determine and record the treatment needs of an internal medicine and surgical patient, plan and implement treatment, assess the effects of treatment
• Can identify changes caused to the patient and their loved ones by diseases and injuries that are treated via internal medicine and surgery
• Can apply internal medicine and surgery treatment methods on a patient-by-patient basis
• Gains proficiency in pharmacotherapy related to the care of internal medicine and surgical patients
• Can guide and support patients and loved ones in managing the health problem, as well as common internal medicine and surgery patient care in lifestyle changes and rehabilitation required
• Can use appropriate customer-oriented teaching and guidance methods, such as individual and group guidance, to help patients to commit to treatment and perform self-care
• Knows the roles and responsibilities of different professional groups and the importance of cooperation in maintaining and promoting the functional capacity of an internal medicine and surgical patient in a multi-professional team
• Works ethically in different nursing situations and the work community
• Students will learn to promote occupational and patient safety.
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Treatment paths of surgical and internal medicine patients
• Working in a multiprofessional working group
• Examination and test methods applied in the treatment of surgical and internal medicine patients
• Performing pharmacotherapy
• Determining the patient’s level of nutrition and related care
• Patient counselling and training methods
• Self-care support and commitment to treatment
• Nursing process and structural documentation
• Rehabilitation and follow-up care
• Occupational and patient safety
• Ethical and responsible activities
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 03.11.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Objective
The student:
• Can determine and record the treatment needs of an internal medicine and surgical patient, plan and implement treatment, assess the effects of treatment
• Can identify changes caused to the patient and their loved ones by diseases and injuries that are treated via internal medicine and surgery
• Can apply internal medicine and surgery treatment methods on a patient-by-patient basis
• Gain proficiency in pharmacotherapy related to the care of internal medicine and surgical patients
• Can guide and support patients and loved ones in managing the health problem, as well as common internal medicine and surgery patient care in lifestyle changes and rehabilitation required
• Can use appropriate customer-oriented teaching and guidance methods, such as individual and group guidance, to help patients to commit to treatment and perform self-care
• Knows the roles and responsibilities of different professional groups and the importance of cooperation in maintaining and promoting the functional capacity of an internal medicine and surgical patient in a multi-professional team
• Works ethically in different nursing situations and the work community
• Students will learn to promote occupational and patient safety.
• Is able to operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Treatment paths of surgical and internal medicine patients
• Working in a multiprofessional working group
• Examination and test methods applied in the treatment of surgical and internal medicine patients
• Performing pharmacotherapy
• Determining the patient’s level of nutrition and related care
• Patient counselling and training methods
• Self-care support and commitment to treatment
• Nursing process and structural documentation
• Rehabilitation and follow-up care
• Occupational and patient safety
• Ethical and responsible activities
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 02.09.2024
Timing
02.09.2024 - 30.10.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Tiina Murto
- Satu Halonen
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKÄTIS21
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
· Can independently care for the mother who gave birth and her family
· Can anticipate and identify changes in the well-being of the woman who gave birth, the new-born and their family
· Can guide the mother and family in a health-promoting and family-oriented manner
· Can care for a new-born
· Can prevent, identify and intervene in time in connection with changes in a new-born’s health
· Understands the importance of early interaction and supporting it as part of the puerperium period
· Can act in a way that supports parenting and early interaction
· Can observe the problems of early interaction
· Can perform a normal postpartum check
· Students will become familiar with the most common perinatal and neonatal disorders and problems.
· Students will know how to observe and care for a newborn as a multiprofessional team member in situations that threaten the health and life of the newborn.
Content
Contents
• Monitoring, counselling and evaluation of postpartum woman, new-born and family
• Methods for monitoring, caring for and assessing the condition of the mother and family after childbirth
• Care of a mother who has given birth normally or by caesarean section, and her family
• Postpartum complications
• Monitoring of mental wellbeing after childbirth
• Multiprofessional operations and referral for further treatment
• Breastfeeding counselling
• Content of health advice after childbirth
• Recovery after childbirth
• Childbirth discussion
• Family planning and contraception after childbirth
• Methods for monitoring the condition of a newborn
Support for Early Intervention and Parenthood
• Theoretical foundation for early interaction
• Observation in early intervention
• Methods for supporting early intervention and parenthood in midwifery
Postpartum Examination
• Recovery from childbirth and gynaecological status
• Childbirth discussion
• Family planning
• Parental benefits in postpartum examination
• Success of breastfeeding and problems in breastfeeding
Nursing of new-borns in need of intensive care
• The most common perinatal and neonatal disorders and problems
• Actions to take if the condition of the newborn changes
• Resuscitation of newborns
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 04.09.2024
Timing
04.09.2024 - 02.10.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
10 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Satu Halonen
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 30. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 30. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKÄTIS22
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
• Understands the importance of promoting sexual and reproductive health from the perspective of the individual, community and society, as well as internationally
• Can act as a promoter of sexual and reproductive health and guide the client on sexual and reproductive health issues
• Students will become familiar with the service system related to the promotion, examination and treatment of sexual and reproductive health.
Content
Contents
• National and International Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Concepts used in the promotion of sexual and reproductive health
• Sexual rights
• Social phenomena and visions related to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health
• National and international challenges in the promotion of sexual and reproductive health
• Sexual Education, Sexual Counselling and Methods
• Levels, models, processes and methods of health promotion as part of midwifery
• Models and levels of addressing sexuality
• Sexology
• Methods of promoting sexual and reproductive health
• Promotion of sexual and reproductive health at different stages of life
• Sexual and reproductive health services
• Promotion of sexual and reproductive health in different operating environments
• Multidisciplinary cooperation in the promotion of sexual and reproductive health
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.12.2024
Timing
31.03.2025 - 18.04.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
1 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Johanna Kerola
Groups
-
PKATIS24
Objective
The student:
• Knows the most common radiological studies and principles of radiation therapy
• Knows the principles of radiation safety
Content
Contents
• Radiological examinations and radiotherapy
• Radiation safety: Patient and occupational safety
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 30.01.2025
Timing
13.01.2025 - 28.02.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Heli Aarnio
- Satu Halonen
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
• Understand the importance of sexuality for people’s overall well-being and know how to address sexuality with patients of different ages and in the prevention of various diseases
• Become familiar with the most common gynaecological diseases and their prevention
• Understand the normal process of pregnancy and learn common methods of monitoring pregnancy
• Can help a woman giving birth in an urgent, first aid-like situation
• Know the process of a normal postpartum period
• Understand the health promoting capacity of breastfeeding
• Know how to use the key medication databases related to the field
Content
Contents
• Sexuality and how to address it
• Common gynaecological disorders
• Process and monitoring of a normal pregnancy
• Process of a normal childbirth
• Normal postpartum period and breastfeeding
• Medication databases for pregnancy and the breastfeeding period
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
05.05.2024 - 08.09.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 20.09.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
5 - 20
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Marjatta Häsänen
Groups
-
MKATIS24Degree Programme in Midwifery, Part-Time Studies, Turku, Autumn 2024
Objective
Goals
• Can plan, implement, record and evaluate the nursing care of a pregnant woman, a mother who has given birth, a healthy new-born, a new-born requiring intensive care or a gynaecological patient as a member of a multi-professional team
• Can guide, advise and treat patients and relatives in sexual and reproductive health care problems, pharmacotherapy, nutrition, exercise and hygiene of midwifery work
• Can act ethically according to the ethics of midwifery work, and can follow the applicable guidelines and legislation
• Can support patient empowerment
• Can follow aseptic requirements
• Can use electronic recording software in the ward and to record key issues in the database
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Traineeship units as study units in accordance with EU/2005 directives
• Supervised midwifery internship in units carrying out nursing work for pregnant women, mothers who have given birth, healthy new-borns, new-borns requiring intensive care or gynaecological patients
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.01.2025
Timing
21.04.2025 - 25.05.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Heli Aarnio
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS22
Objective
Goals
• Can plan, implement, record and evaluate the nursing care of a pregnant woman, a mother who has given birth, a healthy new-born, a new-born requiring intensive care or a gynaecological patient as a member of a multi-professional team
• Can guide, advise and treat patients and relatives in sexual and reproductive health care problems, pharmacotherapy, nutrition, exercise and hygiene of midwifery work
• Can act ethically according to the ethics of midwifery work, and can follow the applicable guidelines and legislation
• Can support patient empowerment
• Can follow aseptic requirements
• Can use electronic recording software in the ward and to record key issues in the database
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Traineeship units as study units in accordance with EU/2005 directives
• Supervised midwifery internship in units carrying out nursing work for pregnant women, mothers who have given birth, healthy new-borns, new-borns requiring intensive care or gynaecological patients
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
15.05.2024 - 01.10.2024
Timing
11.11.2024 - 15.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
7 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
10 - 25
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Tiina Murto
Groups
-
PKÄTIS21
Objective
The student:
• Is able to plan, implement, record and evaluate the nursing care of a pregnant woman, a mother who has given birth, a healthy newborn, a newborn requiring intensive care or a gynaecological patient as a member of a multi-professional team
• Can guide, advise and treat patients and relatives in sexual and reproductive health care problems, pharmacotherapy, nutrition, exercise and hygiene of midwifery work
• Can act ethically according to the ethics of midwifery work, and can follow the applicable guidelines and legislation
• Can support patient empowerment
• Can follow aseptic requirements
• Is able to use electronic recording software in the ward and to record key issues in the database
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Traineeship units as study units in accordance with EU/2005 directives
• Supervised midwifery internship in units carrying out nursing work for pregnant women, mothers who have given birth, healthy new-borns, new-borns requiring intensive care or gynaecological patients
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
08.05.2024 - 15.09.2024
Timing
09.09.2024 - 06.10.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
7 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
5 - 20
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Marjatta Häsänen
Groups
-
MKATIS24Degree Programme in Midwifery, Part-Time Studies, Turku, Autumn 2024
Objective
The student:
• Is able to plan, implement, record and evaluate the nursing care of a pregnant woman, a mother who has given birth, a healthy newborn, a newborn requiring intensive care or a gynaecological patient as a member of a multi-professional team
• Can guide, advise and treat patients and relatives in sexual and reproductive health care problems, pharmacotherapy, nutrition, exercise and hygiene of midwifery work
• Can act ethically according to the ethics of midwifery work, and can follow the applicable guidelines and legislation
• Can support patient empowerment
• Can follow aseptic requirements
• Is able to use electronic recording software in the ward and to record key issues in the database
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Traineeship units as study units in accordance with EU/2005 directives
• Supervised midwifery internship in units carrying out nursing work for pregnant women, mothers who have given birth, healthy new-borns, new-borns requiring intensive care or gynaecological patients
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.12.2024
Timing
01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Heli Aarnio
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Objective
The student:
• Plan, implement and assess customer-oriented care and counselling in public and private care institutions (for example nursing care of persons with functional disabilities, home care, hospital at home, palliative care)
• Help and support people dealing with acute and long-term health changes and become aware of their own limits of competence
• Gain more in-depth knowledge on counselling health promotion
• Be able to establish a good nurse-patient relationship in various nursing environments
• Be able to work in multiprofessional work groups
• Learn to apply evidence-based information and use it in the nursing care of patients/customers and its development
• Deepen their pharmacotherapy competence in different fields of nursing
• Can operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development in a care environment
Content
Contents
• Implementation of key nursing activities according to the learning environment and the needs of customers/patients
• Clinical examination of the patient
• Guiding patients in an empowering way, in cooperation with the customer/patient and their family
• Implementation of evidence-based nursing and guidance
• Deepening knowledge of the structure of the health and social services system and implementing service guidance for the customer/patient and their family member
• Deepening the basis of pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
10.06.2024 - 31.10.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Satu Halonen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS22
Objective
The student:
• Plans, implements and assesses customer-oriented care and counselling in public and private care institutions (for example nursing care of persons with functional disabilities, home care, hospital at home, palliative care)
• Help and support people dealing with acute and long-term health changes and become aware of their own limits of competence
• Gain more in-depth knowledge on counselling health promotion
• Be able to establish a good nurse-patient relationship in various nursing environments
• Be able to work in multiprofessional work groups
• Learn to apply evidence-based information and use it in the nursing care of patients/customers and its development
• Deepen their pharmacotherapy competence in different fields of nursing
• Is able to operate in accordance with the principles of sustainable development ina care environment
Content
Contents
• Implementation of key nursing activities according to the learning environment and the needs of customers/patients
• Clinical examination of the patient
• Guiding patients in an empowering way, in cooperation with the customer/patient and their family
• Implementation of evidence-based nursing and guidance
• Deepening knowledge of the structure of the health and social services system and implementing service guidance for the customer/patient and their family member
• Deepening the basis of pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
04.05.2023 - 08.10.2023
Timing
01.08.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
7 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
10 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Mari Berglund
- Marjatta Häsänen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS20
Objective
SPECIALISATION IN MIDWIFERY 2 7 cr KäER2
OBJECTIVES
- Students will know how to plan, provide, document and evaluate nursing as multiprofessional team members for pregnant and postpartum women, healthy newborns, newborns requiring intensive care and gynaecological patients.
- Students will learn to provide advice, guidance and treatment to patients and their family members in questions regarding care, pharmacotherapy, nutrition, exercise and hygiene in the field of sexual and reproductive health and midwifery.
- Students will comply with the ethics of midwifery and the applicable guidelines and legislation.
- Students will know how to support the patient’s empowerment.
- Students will master aseptic techniques.
- Students will learn to use the ward’s applications for electronic documentation and to document key issues in the database.
Content
Contents
- The study units are practical training units that meet the requirements of the EU/2005 directives.
- Midwifery training in units providing nursing for pregnant and postpartum women, healthy newborns, newborns requiring intensive care and gynaecological patients
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 07.01.2025
Timing
07.01.2025 - 07.03.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
1 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Svenska
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Nina Roine
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Objective
The student can communicate orally in different work-life situations.
Content
The student
- can describe the content and structure of his/her studies, training and work experience
- can describe his/her working environment and operations of a company, products and processes
- can communicate in various business life situations appropriately
- is able to use appropriate vocabulary and phrases when presenting tasks of his/her own field
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 07.01.2025
Timing
07.01.2025 - 07.03.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Svenska
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Nina Roine
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
Objective
The student can communicate in writing in different work-life situations.
Content
The student
- can describe the content and structure of his/her studies, training and work experience
- can describe his/her working environment and operations of a company, products and processes
- can communicate in various business life situations appropriately
- is able to use appropriate vocabulary and phrases when presenting tasks of his/her own field
Evaluation scale
H-5
Enrollment
10.06.2024 - 18.09.2024
Timing
18.09.2024 - 26.11.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
10 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Hanna Koivikko
- Satu Halonen
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
PKÄTIS22
Small groups
- 1
- 2
Objective
The student:
· Identifies individual, cultural and environmental factors affecting the health of women of different ages
· Promotes a woman’s health and social well-being and understands the importance of women’s health for the health of the whole family
· Knows the treatment process for a gynaecological patient
· Can meet individuals and families with different cultural backgrounds and understands the diversity of cultural features in midwifery work
· Can anticipate and analyse changes in a woman’s health and can act in a multi-professional manner as required
· Can act according to the values and principles of midwifery work
· Students will learn to provide customer-driven family planning guidance to women and their partners.
Content
Contents
Sexual and Reproductive Health throughout a Woman’s Life Cycle
• Health risks, problems and midwifery in the life cycle of women
• Woman- and family-oriented approach
• Diversity of families
• Professional values, ethical guidelines and principles of midwifery and adherence to them
• Cultural factors related to the sexual and reproductive health of individuals, families and society
• Cultural resources and challenges in women’s care
• Ethical conflicts in midwifery
Gynaecological Midwifery
• Gynaecological care environments and paths
• Special features of the treatment process of gynaecological patients
• Gynaecological diseases and their treatment
• Childlessness and its treatment
• Miscarriage and abortion and related treatment
• Clinical competence in the care of gynaecological patients
• Gynaecology and endocrinology
Family planning
• Determination of the need for pregnancy prevention and contraceptive methods
• Prevention of venereal diseases
Evaluation scale
H-5