Practical Training in Public Health Nursing of Work-Age Adults and Their Communities (6cr)

Objective

Students can explain what good occupational health service involves. They are able to assess the effects that work, work communities and environments can have on people's health. Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate action to promote the health of their clients (individuals, families, groups, workplaces, work or other communities). Students know how to work in multiprofessional work communities and in multiprofessional and multidisciplinary networks. They are able to plan, implement and evaluate rehabilitative public health nursing to promote the health and work capacity of work-age people, workplaces and communities.

Content

Practical training in occupational health services. eDrug Care Certificate. Assignments

Qualifications

Theoetical studies on public health nursing of work-age adults and their communities, drug calculations.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
Students are unable to assume responsibility for clients' internal and external safety. They do not know how to use
dialogic or client-centred discussion or how to involve clients' families and significant others in health care. Students do not know to an adequate degree how to use counselling methods to help maintain and promote individuals'/families' health. In their counselling work, students do not attend to client individuality or self-determination.Students do not know how to promote clients' and their families' resources or how to intervene to fight health risks on adequate level.They do not know how to use multi-sectoral teams to promote clients' health. They do not recognize outcomes or effectiveness of health promotion. Students are unable to independently plan and implement target-orientied family-centred public health nursing or to make decisions together with clients and their families. Students do not know how to promote the health of individuals, families, groups, communities or the environment and are unable to use evidence-based public health nursing methods. Students do not know how to follow up or support clients' individual health, growth and development. Students do not know how to engage in multisectoral collaboration.

Materials

Will be announced in the course implementation plan