Health-Promoting Nursing (5cr)

Objective

Students understand principles of health promotion and know how to act according to the values of health promotion. They understand the economic perspective of health promotion. Students are able to apply existing knowledge of the population's health challenges
on individual and community level. Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate individual, group and community-level health promotion methods. They are able to prevent risk factors, which might impair the individual's, family's or community's health and ability to function. Students know how to use the client's experiential knowledge in the care of health and diseases. Students can describe the strategies of important national and international health and social policy programmes from the perspective of health promotion.

Students know how to actively seek and use scientific knowledge in decision-making in nursing and in various other duties. Students know how to seek information from health science databases.

Content

Levels of health promotion (individual, community, society) and forms of action (prevention, promotion). Ethics and principles of health promotion. The role of client's life history, lifestyle and situation in care. Family development stages. The client's personal, situation-specific and external health factors. Resource and solution-based approach to health promotion. The link between health and health practices, prevention of risk behaviour, anticipation of health risks. Legislation for the promotion of health and wellbeing, national guidelines and policy programmes; international and national recommendations and strategies.

The use of library and information seeking services. Using the most important health science databaseses.

Qualifications

No previous studies required.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Client- and Population -Based Health Promotion and Evidence-Based Nursing during the early phase of the studies

Materials

Eriksson, K., Isola, A., Kyngäs, H., Leino-Kilpi, H., Lindstöm, U.Å., Paavilainen, E., Pietilä, A.-M., Vehviläinen-Julkunen, K. & Åstedt-Kurki, P. 2007. Hoitotiede. WSOY, Helsinki. (sov.osin) Saatavuus:
http://tiny.cc/itsnlx
http://tiny.cc/7tsnlx

Pietilä, A.-M. 2010. (toim.). Terveyden edistäminen - teorioista toimintaan. WSOYpro OY. (sov.osin)
Saatavuus: http://tiny.cc/0vsnlx

Åstedt-Kurki, P., Jussila, A.-M., Koponen, L., Lehto, P., Maijala, H., Paavilainen, R. & Potinkara, H. 2008. Kohti perheen hyvää hoitamista. WSOY., Helsinki. (sov.osin)
Saatavuus: http://tiny.cc/54snlx

Bomar, P.J.2004. Promoting Health in Families. Applying Family Research and Theory to Nursing Practice. Third edition. Sauders, Philadelphia. (soveltuvin osin)
Saatavuus: http://tiny.cc/j6snlx

Current study materials