Specialization in Nursing Care 2 (7cr)
Course unit code: TH00CQ88
General information
- Credits
- 7 cr
- Teaching language
- Finnish
Objective
Students will:
•	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
                    
Content
Contents
•	Key nursing activities according to the learning environment and the needs of the customers/patients
•	Clinical examination of patients 
•	The implementation of empowering patient counselling with patients/customers and their family members
•	Provision of evidence-based nursing and counselling services
•	In-depth knowledge of the structure of the social and health service system, implementation of service guidance with customers/patients and their family members
•	More profound skills in pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy