Study Guide

Objective

NURSING SCIENCE, ETHICS AND EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH IN THE NURSING PROFESSION 5 ECTS HOFI

The study unit is arranged entirely in English
Objectives
Students will
• Be familiar with the key concepts, values, ethical principles and guidelines in nursing
• Know how to apply the values and ethical principles of nursing, as well as to assess their realisation also in electronic services
• Be able to draw a line between private and professional communication roles in social media
• Understand the knowledge base of nursing
• Identify the responsibility and tasks of nurses
• Be familiar with evidence-based operations in nursing
• Know how to search for information using the most common health sciences databases
• Evaluate the truthfulness of information

Content

Contents
• Key concepts of epistemology and ethics
• The rights and self-determination of patients
• Identification and handling of ethical problems
• Ethical approach in nursing
• Nursing science as a discipline
• Evidence-based activities – concepts and bases for activities
• Key treatment recommendations
• Information seeking

Information seeking studies 1 ECTS

Materials

Finnish laws and decrees
Articles and documents in the Its learning platform.

Info Seeking Online Course: Information Research Guides by Turku UAS Library (https://libguides.turkuamk.fi/informationandresearchguides) as instructed in touch with the assignments
hotus.fi in English
E-books:
Nursing Law and Ethics, edited by John Tingle, and Alan Cribb, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/turkuamk-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1407862.
Part 1, Chapter 2, Part 2 Chapters 7 and 8.

Evidence-Based Nursing : An Introduction, edited by Nicky Cullum, et al., John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/turkuamk-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1187193.
Chapters 1-3

Teaching methods

Leaning discussions
Group work and supervised discussions
Learning diary
Independent task-based work
Scientific writing
Analyzing videos
Seminar presentation
Individual exam
Online course on information seeking (Info Seeking Online Course): Independent learning online, individual assignments to learn to seek information efficiently

International connections

We use collaborative and individual learning methods in this course.
Learning discussions
Group work and supervised discussions
Independent reflective assignments

Completion alternatives

-

Student workload

5 cr (5 x 27h) = 135 h
1 credit is 27 hours of student work
Interaction during lessons and learning cafe (0,5 cr)
Nursing science and evidence-based practice (1 cr)
Learning Diary (0,5 cr)
Seminar report and presentation (1 cr)
Individual exam (1 cr)
Info Seeking Online Course (1 cr)

Content scheduling

Weeks 2-6
Themes:
1. Values and ethical principles in nursing
2. Moral theories and ethical dilemmas in nursing
3. Nursing science and evidence-based practice
4. Seminar work and scientific reporting
5. Information retrieval

Schedule for Info Skills Online Course:
Starting info (30 minutes)
Guidance session (1 h)
Info Skills Online Course ends

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

5 cr (5 x 27h) = 135 h
1 credit is 27 hours of student work
Interaction during lessons and learning café (0,5 cr) approved/ failed
Nursing science and evidence-based practice (1 cr) approved/ failed
Learning Diary (0,5 cr) approved/ failed
Seminar report and presentation (1 cr) numeral evaluation 0-5
Individual exam (1 cr) numeral evaluation 0-5
Info Seeking Online Course (1 cr) numeral evaluation 0-5

The course grade is the average of the numeral evaluations.