Study Guide

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

Materials

It is on the Its-learning platform in connection with the course.

Teaching methods

online courses
case assignments

Exam schedules

Elderly nursing test
Medication test
Vaccination test (Moodle)
All tests must be passed during the course.

International connections

online pedagogy
functional learning

Student workload

The learning time allocated to the course is about 90 hours.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Rating scale passed / failed

Content scheduling

The course includes three course modules and an orientation module.
Module 1 Orientation to the course
Module 2 Nursing for the Elderly 2 cr (1 cr in English)
Module 3 Geriatrics and Pharmacology 1 cr (0.5 cr geriatrics in English)
Module 4 Nurse's reception and home hospital 1 cr (0.5 cr nurse's reception in English)
The course is completed independently in the Its learning environment. You can schedule the study of the modules to suit your own schedule. The course must be completed on 7.11.

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty