Development of Public Health Nursing (5cr)

Objective

Students are aware of the level of their development, innovation and research competence and know how to promote it in their expert work in health promotion. Students keep up to date with research findings and development ideas and apply them in their work. They develop public health nursing in an innovative manner to meet the needs of society and working life.

Content

Practical training in public health nursing in a placement selected by the student and linked to the student's Bachelor's Thesis. Assignments.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Thesis

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.