Study Guide

Objective

Nursing in Basic Health Care 8 cr PETHA
Objectives
- Students will gain proficiency in planning, providing and evaluating customer-centred care and guidance at public and private health centres and in various projects.
- Students will learn to help and support people dealing with acute and long-term health changes and will become aware of their own resources and limits of competence.
- Students will learn to plan and provide guidance related to the promotion of health.
- Students will create a good nurse-patient relationship in various work environments.
- Students will learn to work in multiprofessional work groups.
- Students will commit themselves to entrepreneurial activities in various operating environments.
- Students will learn to apply evidence-based information and use it to perform and develop nursing.
- Students will deepen their pharmacotherapy competence in different fields of nursing (medication passport).

Content

Contents
- Key nursing activities depending on the learning environment and the needs of the patients/customers
- Clinical examination performed on a real patient/customer
- The fundamentals of empowering patient guidance with patients/customers and their family members
- Provision of evidence-based nursing and guidance
- Structure of the social and health service system, service guidance with customers/patients and their family members
- More profound skills in pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy

Materials

Previous theory courses, preclinical training lessons and practices at working life

Teaching methods

Practice at working life

International connections

Working life based

Student workload

8 credits is 203 hours of student work which includes 2 hours of practice orientation, 2 hours feedback and 2 hours for activating and updating personal CV to Jobiili. The student practices the remaining 197 hours in the internship place.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Accepted completion requires:
Before the practice the student needs to fill in the Jobiili CV and participate in the practice orientation lesson.
During the practice the student needs to achieve the goals of the practice and complete the hours in practice. The student writes own goals, discusses them with the practice supervisor and uploads them to Optima. Midterm and final evaluations are held between the supervisor and the student. The student writes a self-evaluation and uploads all documents to Optima.
After the practice the student returns the practice evaluation forms and timetable forms to the teacher and participates in the feedback lesson.

Content scheduling

Supervised nursing practice at working life, weeks 41-45.

Further information

The student needs to pay for the travelling costs. All documents are saved to Optima return boxes.

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation is based on the assessment criteria for supervised practical training. Evaluation discussion is held between the student and the supervisor. Assessment of five nursing competences: customer-oriented, ethical and professional skills, evidence-based clinical skills, teaching and guidance skills, cooperation skills in social and health care operating environments and nursing development skills.