Study Guide

Objective

1) Professionalism and ethics
The student
-functions in accordance with the values, ethical guidelines and principles of nursing care, and evaluates their implementation in daily nursing care.
- complies with current legislation and information guidance in his/ her work.
- has adopted the professional identity of a nurse and committed to the principles of a service profession.
- demonstrates ability to function in the role of an expert in nursing care and to accept responsibility for his/ her actions.
- demonstrates ability to assess and develop his/ her own skills.
- demonstrates ability to intervene in unprofessional conduct.
- recognizes their limits in coping, seeks support and uses different forms of support available.
- demonstrates knowledge of career opportunities for nurses.
- complies with occupational safety regulations.

2) Client-centered care
The student
- respects clients/patients and encounters them as experts of and actors in their own lives.
- demonstrates ability to encounter vulnerable patient groups in nursing care.
- demonstrates ability to encounter clients/patients from different cultures individually.

3) Communication and multi-professionalism
The student
- demonstrates knowledge of professional interaction in nursing care with clients/patients of different ages and backgrounds and their next-of-kin.
- demonstrates knowledge of independent communication and interaction in his or her native language, the second official language of Finland, and at least one foreign language.
- understands his or her own responsibilities and those of other professionals in health care and social welfare services, as well as the significance of controlled and flexible division of duties in the client’s /patient’s holistic care.
- demonstrates good work community skills when working in multidisciplinary teams, environments and networks.

4) Health promotion
The student
- demonstrates ability to apply current research data and other information from the field of health promotion to their work with client/patients.
- identifies risk factors of clients/patients and provides early support to those in need.
- plans and implements interventions promoting health and functional capacity of individuals and groups of clients/patients in multidisciplinary collaboration.
- recognizes existing and new threats to health and knows how to integrate them in the promotion of health of clients/patients.

5) Leadership and professional co-operation skills of the employee
The student
- demonstrates ability to prioritize the task flexibly.
- motivates members of their working community and is able to give and receive feedback.
- demonstrates ability to work according to the principles of cost-efficiency, sustainable development, taking into account the environment.
- demonstrates ability to guide fellow students and co-workers.
- demonstrates ability to develop and adapt his/her ways of working to changes in the health care and social welfare services.

6) Information technology and documentation
The student
- complies with the requirements and regulations governing data protection and information security in health care and social welfare services relating to the creation, use, storage and disposal of data.
- demonstrates knowledge of appropriate recording of the client’s /patient’s nursing care process, and is capable of evaluating whether data recorded in the patient data repository is up-to-date, correct and of good quality.
- documents the nursing care of clients/patients according to the nursing care process; assesses the client’s/patient’s need for interventions (care) in accordance with the Finnish Care Classification (FinCC), plans and implements interventions using the Finnish Classification of Nursing Interventions (FiCNI), evaluates nursing outcomes using the Finnish Classification of Nursing Outcomes (FiCNO), as well as produces a summary of the nursing care.
- demonstrates knowledge of information technology, electronic databases and reporting tools used in health care services.
- complies with netiquette, regulations and practices regarding emails, and assumes the role of a health care professional in social media.

7) Guidance and education competence and supporting self-care
The student
- assesses the needs, resources and responsibility of the client/patient in planning guidance and self-care.
- plans, implements and assesses individual and group guidance in cooperation with the patient/client, and other professionals.

Requirements for implementation of patient guidance
The student
- uses client/patient-centered education and guidance methods.
- demonstrates ability to evaluate guidance outcomes together with the client /patient, their next-of-kin and health care professionals.
- uses pedagogy and ethics in planning, implementation and evaluation of guidance supporting the client’s /patient’s self-care.
- encourages the client /patient and their next-of-kin to commit to the care.
- demonstrates knowledge of the clinical pathway of the client/patient and masters the basics of service guidance.

8) Clinical nursing
The student
- responds to the needs of the client/patient by planning, implementing and assessing appropriate individual nursing care in cooperation with the client/patient, their next-of-kin, and other professionals in health care and social welfare services.
- demonstrates ability to use diverse nursing care methods in psycho-social support of the client /patient.
- masters the knowledge and skills needed for key nursing interventions as a part of holistic
care of the client /patient.
- masters the knowledge and skills of key nursing diagnostics as a part of holistic
care of the client/patient.
- masters the principles of infection prevention and puts their knowledge into practice in the implementation of infection prevention.
- applies knowledge of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, applied pharmacology and medication to the planning, implementation and assessment of medication for treatment of different diseases.
- applies knowledge of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology and applied pharmacology to the planning, implementation and assessment of safe medication of different client/patient groups.
- demonstrates knowledge of legislation governing medication and information guidance.
- applies nutrition and care recommendations for different age and target groups for prevention and treatment of national diseases.
- demonstrates knowledge of the principles of family work and is able to put them into practice.
- uses various methods to support the psycho-social and conviction needs of patients and their next-of-kin.

9) Evidence-based practice, utilization of research knowledge and decision-making
The student
- understands that the work of a nurse is evidence-based and commits to it.
- demonstrates ability to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing safely.
- participates in developing evidence-based practices in their own work.
- demonstrates ability to search information in major databases of health sciences and to read scientific publications critically.
- demonstrates ability to make evidence-based clinical decisions.
- demonstrates ability to exploit scientific data in clinical decision-making.

10) Entrepreneurship and development
The student
- understands the idea of entrepreneurship and commits to it in his or her work.
- has the basic qualities required for an independent entrepreneur in the sector.
- masters the principles of cost consciousness in nursing and works cost-efficiently.
- reflecting with his or her work community, he or she is able to identify practices to be developed and aspects that need to be changed in their own work.
- demonstrates ability to participate in development, innovation and research processes as a team member.

11) Quality management
The student
- evaluates the quality of nursing care in order to develop the client’s /patient’s care, and their own practices.
- participates in quality management as a member of the work community.
- understands the impact of his/ her own activity on the quality of the organization.
- understands the use of patient safety reports as a part of quality control of the organization.

12) Service system of health care and social welfare services
The student
- understands how health care and social welfare services are produced and organized, and how they are controlled and monitored in Finland.
- understands the roles of different action and service units as part of the care and service chain.
- understands his/ her personal role in promoting the organization’s reputation, brand and image, as well as in creating a positive service experience for the client.
- demonstrates competence in using digital services as a part of holistic care of the client/ patient.
- demonstrates ability to function in changing environments and to provide service guidance.

13) Patient and client safety
The student
- demonstrates knowledge of key factors regarding patient and client safety.
- promotes patient safety and prevents patient safety incidents in every phase of the nursing process of the patient.
- communicates clearly to ensure patient safety.
- takes immediate situation-specific action in a hazardous situation.
- recognizes potential patient safety incidents and reports them.
- understands how a report on patient safety incident is handled.

Content

- Nurses' duties, responsibilities and well-being at work in perioperative nursing
- Evidence-based nursing and the development of perioperative nursing
- Different patient groups in perioperative nursing
- Multi-professionalism and teamwork
- Patient safety in perioperative nursing
- Implementation of asepsis in perioperative nursing
- Guidance for perioperative patients and their next-of-kin
- Perioperative documentation and reporting
- Ethics and values in perioperative nursing
- Patient preoperative preparation
- Technology and equipment and their maintenance in perioperative nursing
- The most common surgical techniques from the perspective of surgical nursing
- Different forms of anesthesia and patient monitoring
- Medication and fluid therapy, pain management in perioperative nursing and drug calculations.
-Recovery Room - nursing

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
The student
- uses the knowledge foundation of client-centered clinical nursing narrowly.
- on a satisfactory level, seeks information and uses evidence-based knowledge to explain his/her actions in client-centered clinical nursing.
- on a satisfactory level, implements his/her competence in client-centered clinical nursing in various registered nursing situations.
- is capable of client-centered and safe clinical practice based on ethical principles.
- possesses adequate skills in client-centered clinical decision-making.
- is, to some extent, prepared to develop client-centered clinical nursing.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
The student
- competently and extensively uses the concepts and knowledge of client-centered clinical nursing.
- evaluates and critically uses evidence-based knowledge in client-centered clinical nursing.
- implements his/her competence in client-centered clinical nursing in an anticipatory manner and is capable of independent decision-making in various client-centered clinical nursing situations.
- is capable of client-centered, responsible and safe clinical practice.
- applies alternative solutions to decision-making in client-centered clinical nursing.
- evaluates action and safety in client-centered clinical nursing based on professional ethical principles of registered nursing.
- acts as an expert of client-centered clinical nursing in multidisciplinary teams and projects in collaboration with people who represent different cultures.
- purposefully develops himself/herself and the working community in client-centered clinical nursing.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
The student
- demonstrates competence in the nursing scientific knowledge base and competently applies this knowledge to client-centered clinical nursing.
- independently seeks, uses and critically evaluates international evidence-based nursing scientific knowledge in client-centered clinical nursing.
- implements his/her competence in client-centered clinical nursing in an anticipatory manner and is capable of independent decision-making in various client-centered clinical nursing situations.
- assumes responsibility for the patient's/client's care and service process in client-centered clinical nursing.
- creates innovative alternative solutions to decision-making in client-centered clinical nursing.
- develops action and safety based on the professional ethics of registered nursing in client-centered clinical nursing.
-as an expert of client-centered clinical nursing, develops action in multidisciplinary teams and projects in collaboration with people who represent different cultures.
- develops himself/herself, the profession and practice in client-centered clinical nursing purposefully, with a career-oriented approach.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
The student
- does not adequately appreciate or use the knowledge base of client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not adequately able to give reasons for the chosen actions in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not adequately able to apply into practice his/her 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.

Qualifications

Registered Nurse`s Competence in Basics of Clinical Nursing
Registered Nurse`s Evidence Based Clinical Competence Modules 1-3
Registered Nurse's Safe Medication and Fluid Therapy Skills
At least 150 ECTS in basic studies.