Study Guide

Objective

NURSING IN SERIOUS ILLNESS AND PALLIATIVE CARE 5 ETCS VAPA

The course includes 2 ETCS of studies in English

Objectives
• understands cancer as a disease and identifies factors affecting cancer prevention and early detection.
• can explain the clinical pathway and key concepts of palliative care and terminal care as well as the relationships between them and apply this knowledge in their work.
• understands the methods of helping, examination and treatment of seriously ill patients and is able to plan, assess and document palliative and humane nursing.
• is able to comprehensively encounter, support and guide the individual needs of patients and their families and friends and to utilise presence as a method of assistance.
• recognises their attitudes towards an incurable illness and death
• knows how to work in a way that promotes patient safety.
• understands the importance of lifelong learning in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of patient care, including development and research project work.
• knows how to work in a multiprofessional team to support the patient's self-treatment and to use different guidance methods and evidence-based information.
• develops their professional skills in teamwork and in different networks while understanding the importance of lifelong learning
• demonstrates initiative and self-management skills in nursing and understanding in the contents of nursing.

Content

Contents
• Cancer, cancer prevention and the clinical pathway of cancer patients
• Basics of palliative care, care policies and restrictions, proactive treatment plan
• Nursing a seriously ill patient
• Comprehensive support and guidance of patients and their families and friends
• Patient and occupational safety
• Recording and reporting of treatment
• Multiprofessional team and group work and self-reflection
• Interaction and encounters

Materials

- Materials in Itslearning
- Huovinen, A. ym. 2023. Kliininen hoitotyö. Sanoma Pro, Helsinki: Syöpää sairastavan hoitotyö and Verisairauksien hoitotyö, pages 732-882.

Teaching methods

- Lectures
- Seminar and peer assessment
- Preclinical practice
- Simulation
- Independent work
- Reflection
- Exam

Exam schedules

Exams will be specified according to schedules and needs.

International connections

- Seminar work and peer assessment are carried out in small groups (about 3 people).
- Independent work includes, in addition to preparing for lessons, a video task and related discussion in Itslearning, a palliative care online course in Oppiportti, and performing medication calculations in Itslearning.
- Each student participates in one simulation, lasting 4 hours.
- The exam is taken independently in Itslearning at a certain time. Material is available.

Completion alternatives

Participation obligation:
- Seminar and peer review
- Simulation
- Preclinical practice
- Exam
- Reflective discussion

If you are unable to participate, notify the teacher in advance and arrange a replacement performance. The replacement performance is primarily carried out during the same hour with another group.

Student workload

Work load of a student:
-Info and lectures 13 h
-Seminar work and peer evaluation 40 h
- Preclinical practice and simulation 27h
- Preparation for the exam and taking the exam 18h
- Independent tasks and work 35h
- Reflective discussion 2h

Content scheduling

The course is conducted between 7.10.-22.11.24.
The detailed schedule can be found on the Itslearning platform.

The course includes 2 ETCS of studies in English.

Objectives
• understands cancer as a disease and identifies factors affecting cancer prevention and early detection.
• can explain the clinical pathway and key concepts of palliative care and terminal care as well as the relationships between them and apply this knowledge in their work.
• understands the methods of helping, examination and treatment of seriously ill patients and is able to plan, assess and document palliative and humane nursing.
• is able to comprehensively encounter, support and guide the individual needs of patients and their families and friends and to utilise presence as a method of assistance.
• recognises their attitudes towards an incurable illness and death
• knows how to work in a way that promotes patient safety.
• understands the importance of lifelong learning in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of patient care, including development and research project work.
• knows how to work in a multiprofessional team to support the patient's self-treatment and to use different guidance methods and evidence-based information.
• develops their professional skills in teamwork and in different networks while understanding the importance of lifelong learning
• demonstrates initiative and self-management skills in nursing and understanding in the contents of nursing.

Contents
• Cancer, cancer prevention and the clinical pathway of cancer patients
• Basics of palliative care, care policies and restrictions, proactive treatment plan
• Nursing a seriously ill patient
• Comprehensive support and guidance of patients and their families and friends
• Patient and occupational safety
• Recording and reporting of treatment
• Multiprofessional team and group work and self-reflection
• Interaction and encounters

Further information

Please, contact the teacher by email.
Teacher can also inform students about matters related to the course on the Itslearning platform.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment:
- Seminar work FAIL - K5
- Independent tasks FAIL/PASS
- Simulation FAIL/PASS
- Preclinical practice FAIL/PASS
- Reflection discussion FAIL/PASS
- Exam FAIL-K5

The course is graded numerically (T1-K5). The final grade is the average of the seminar work and exam grades. (If the average is, for example, 3.5, it is rounded to H4)

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Details:
Does not demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the basic concepts and objectives of the course.
Not able to justify or evaluate their own views and solutions.
Not taking advantage of scientific knowledge.

Skills:
Failing to complete assigned tasks.
Does not know the key operating methods and does not justify their choices.
Improper solutions to problems.

Attitudes:
Does not receive or give feedback.
Does not reflect or identify its development targets.
Does not recognize industry values or ethical principles.
Does not take responsibility for his or her part in the group's work.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Details:
Is able to identify, name and define individual phenomena and basic concepts related to the course.
Utilizes professional knowledge.

Skills:
Performs assigned tasks as directed.
Knows different ways of working, but cannot justify his choices or apply what he has learned according to the situation.

Attitudes:
Can receive and give feedback selectively.
He looks at and evaluates things from his own point of view.
Identifies values and ethical principles important to one's own field.
Take responsibility only for their part in group work
Recognize their interaction skills.
Identify what professional behavior is.
Limitedly recognizes the impacts of their own actions on sustainable development, economy and well-being.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

Details:
Structures the relationships between phenomena and concepts associated with the course of study.
Can explain, compare and structure things in relation to each other.
Utilizes not only professional knowledge but also some scientific knowledge.

Skills:
Be able to independently choose the most suitable course of action from different options and try to justify their choice.
Is able to apply, draw up plans and delineate tasks.
Solves problems.

Attitudes:
Is able to receive and give feedback actively and constructively.
Examines and evaluates matters from both one's own and the immediate community's point of view.
Has adopted the values and ethical principles of the field and acts in accordance with the guidelines.
Be able to act responsibly and participate in the development of their interaction and group work skills.
Behave professionally.
Is able to describe and evaluate the impacts of my own actions on sustainable development, economy and well-being.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Details:
Understands the wide-ranging entities of the course and the cause-effect relationships between them.
Be able to analyze, apply and combine in a professional context.
Can justify their actions using scientific knowledge.

Skills:
Is able to search for and evaluate different methods and solutions.
Be able to justify their choices and try new ways of working.
Be able to combine solutions creatively or create justified operating models.

Attitudes:
Systematically uses feedback as a tool for professional growth for themselves and their community. Change their actions based on feedback.
Is able to actively reflect on their own competence and the operating model of the community.
Is able to flexibly apply the ethical principles of the field in various conflict of values situations.
Collaborate responsibly, committed and constructively.
To develop one's own and the group's interaction, taking into account the requirements and needs of the community and one's own field.
Behaves professionally and is able to guide others in professional behavior.
Understand the impact of its operations on sustainable development, economy and the promotion of well-being. They can also act in anticipation of this

Qualifications

First-semester theoretical studies as well as theoretical studies in medical surgical nursing and at least 2 traineeships (Basics of nursing, internship in Nursing of Medical Surgical Patients 1 and/or 2)