Evidence-Based Activities in NursingLaajuus (2 cr)
Course unit code: TH00BY55
General information
- Credits
- 2 cr
- Teaching language
- English
- Finnish
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