Study Guide

Objective

The student is able to use nursing interventions to respond to the patients' nursing needs and to implement structured documentation using uniform classification.
The student is able to apply the principles of preventing infections and explain why this is important in clinical nursing.
The students is able to assess resources of patients and families from different cultural backgrounds and support them in planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
The student is able to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing interventions.
The student takes a rehabilitation and resource-centred approach to his/her work with patients and family members of all ages.
The student can assess needs for care using appropriate clinical and physiological tools or instruments, prioritise the findings and enter them into the structured documentation system.
The students is able to plan, implement and evaluate patients' drug care.
The student can implement Finnish nutritional guidelines.
The student understands the principles of safety management and sustainable development and is aware of his/her responsibility in promoting these principles at the workplace.
The student can evaluate his/her professional competence critically from the perspectives of strengths and development needs.

Content

Practical training in settings which allow the student to practice basic client-centred clinical nursing. Writing and presenting an assignment. eDrug Care Certificate. Competence test.

Qualifications

workshops and simulation
drug calculations

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail=0
The student
- does not know how to seek information required in individual situations in client-centred clinical nursing
- cannot demonstrate ability to use the knowledge base of client-centred clinical nursing
- does not make a difference between everyday knowledge and evidence-based knowledge in client-centred clinical nursing
- is not competent to work in individual client-centred clinical nursing situations even if instructed
- cannot demonstrate awareness of the ethical principles for registered nurses/ public health nurses in client-centred clinical nursing
- is not competent to work as a member of a team or to share his/her knowledge in client-centred clinical nursing
- is unable to analyse his/her strengths or development needs in client-centred clinical nursing

Materials

Teaching material will be announced in the course implementation plan.