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Reception Duties, Outpatient Care, Empowering Nursing of Elderly Patients (4 cr)

Code: 7031493-3021

General information


Enrollment

02.12.2019 - 19.01.2020

Timing

01.01.2020 - 31.07.2020

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 Emergency Care

Teachers

  • Jaana Koskela
  • Nina Rantalaiho

Groups

  • PENHOK18

Objective

RECEPTION DUTIES, OUTPATIENT CARE, EMPOWERING NURSING OF ELDERLY PATIENTS 4?CR?VAASI
Objectives
Students will
- Learn to work in a customer-driven manner and support customers’ systematic self-care and commitment to care
- Know how to assess the need for care and refer customers to the appropriate social and health services
- Know how to use electronic services to guide and treat customers
- Know how to select the customer-driven education and guidance methods best suited to the context
- Be able to work in a multiprofessional work community
- Know how to use communications technology in the guidance and treatment of customers
- Learn to identify the most common geriatric disorders and become familiar with their medical treatment
- Know how to assess and support the functional capacity and resources of elderly patients
- Be able to assess the patients’ need for care
- Learn to plan, administer and evaluate safe and effective pharmacotherapy for elderly patients
- Know how to support and guide the family members regarding the treatment of elderly patients
- Adhere to ethical values and principles when nursing elderly patients and respect the life phase of elderly people
- Know how to work to ensure occupational and patient safety
- Be familiar with the national immunisation programme for adults and the vaccination of different groups and know how to administer vaccinations properly and safely
- Be able to identify infection risks related to reception duties and outpatient activities and know how to minimise them

Content

Contents
The study unit comprises 2 cr of studies offered in English
Gerontological Nursing 2 cr
- Aging-related changes
- Policy on the elderly and services for the elderly
- Evaluation of the functional capacity and resources of the elderly and provision of support in different environments
- Safe and effective administration of pharmacotherapy for the elderly
- Involvement of the family members in the treatment of elderly patients
Geriatrics and Pharmacology 1 cr?
- Geriatric disorders
- Geriatric pharmacotherapy
Reception Duties, Home Nursing and At-Home Hospital Care 1 cr
- The roles and responsibilities of nursesin multiprofessional cooperation
- Assessment of the need for care
- Empowering patient guidance
- Telephone guidance
- Current special challenges in nursing
- Vaccinations for adults
- Customer service process and elements of good customer service
- Assessment methods for the quality and effectiveness of customer service and guidance, as well as the development of customer service, guidance and education

Evaluation scale

H-5