Study Guide

Objective

The student is capable of working in a multi-professional nursing team, and is able to consider the patient's age, growth and development stage. The student is able to assess the resources of patients and his/her next-of-kin coming from different cultural backgrounds. In addition, the student is able to take this assessment in consideration when planning, implementing and evaluating the nursing care for clients with special needs. Moreover, the student can plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions for patients and their next-of-kin of all ages facing common conditions that are affecting the client’s functional capacity.

The student manages the clinical nursing as a part of the patient's holistic care. The student is able to counsel the clients and their next-of-kin with special needs. The student knows how to support and promote the health and functioning of a client with special needs of various ages and his/her next-of-kin. In addition, the student is able to counsel and support clients of various ages and his/her next-of-kin in self-care.

Content

Health promotion, self-care support and rehabilitation in nursing clients with special needs and their next-of-kin. Nursing interventions (FinCC). The national documentation model for nursing. The impact of the patient's age, sex, cultural background, growth and development stage and care and service setting on the care of clients with special needs and their next-of-kin. Nursing for clients with special needs; Disabled clients and patients, most common disability orders, some most common sensory impairments, autistic spectrum disorder. Rehabilitation and counselling of clients with special needs and his/ her next-of-kin. Multi-professionalism in nursing and collaborating authorities in nursing for clients with special needs.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail=0
The student
- fails to describe any disabled orders.
- does not adequately appreciate or use the knowledge base of client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not adequately able to give reasons for their chosen actions in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not adequately able to apply their knowledge of client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not capable of adequate client-centered and safe clinical practice.
- does not possess adequate decision-making skills for client-centered clinical nursing.
- does not adequately take into consideration safety or ethical principles in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not prepared to develop client-centered clinical nursing.