Clinical Competence in Palliative Nursing (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Content scheduling

Content: Holistic clinical examination of health (including physical, mental, ethnic, cultural dimensions of health)
Nursing process and systematic planning of care, Patient and medication safety and risk management, Clinical decision making in evidence based palliative care/nursing

Objective

The student
- masters patient’s comprehensive and holistic health assessment, identification of the need for care
(diagnosis), clinical care of the patient and health promotion interventions.
- demonstrates advanced skills and knowledge of the comprehensive holistic clinical examination of health
(including physical, mental, ethnic, cultural dimensions of health) using evidence?based frameworks, tools and
- techniques based on patient needs and relevance to client health.
- applies advanced level knowledge when creating systematic palliative or end?of?life care plan based on the
patient’s and his/her next of kin’s individual needs and situation.
- critically evaluates and utilizes interventions developed for enhancing patient and medication safety and
- explains the significance of risk management in palliative and in end of life care.

Content

- Holistic clinical examination of health (including physical, mental, ethnic, cultural dimensions of health)
- Nursing process and systematic planning of care
- Patient and medication safety and risk management
- Clinical decision making in evidence based palliative care/nursing

Materials

Käypä hoito suositukset, muut hoitosuositukset
Saha, Salonen & Sane(toim.) 2013. Potilaan tutkiminen. Kustannus Oy Duodecim.
Bickley L.S, Szilagyi P & Bates B.2013. Bates' guide to physical examination and history-taking. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Bickley, L.S. 2016. Bate's pocket guide to physical examination and history taking. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Dahlin C, Coyne P. J. & Ferrell B. R.(ed.) Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing. 2016. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dahlin C, Coyne P. J. & Ferrell, B. R. Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing. 2016. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ferral & Paice 2019. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing. New York. Oxford University Press. E-kirja

Teaching methods

Contact teaching, preparing to contact teaching, contact- and distance learning online (Digikampus), Independent learning

Exam schedules

OSCE 9.12. 2019 (laajuus 1op). Uusinnat erikseen sovitusti

Student workload

Valmistautuminen lähiopetukseen 2op
Oman tarkistuslistan tekeminen palliatiivisessa hoidossa olevan potilaan tilanteen arviointiin. 0,5 op
Verkkokurssi THL: monikulttuurisuus asiakastyössä-
https://verkkokoulut.thl.fi/web/monikulttuurisuus ja
Merkityksellinen tapahtuma-tehtävä(monikulttuurisuus asiakastyössä) ja verkkokeskustelu 0,5 op
Näyttöön perustuva kliininen päätöksenteko -ryhmäharjoitus 1 op