Basics of Elderly Care (3cr)
Code: GERAHK710-3004
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.08.2019 - 14.01.2020
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 07.01.2020 - 22.05.2020
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 3 cr
- Local portion
- 3 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services and Health Care, Applied Gerontology
- Teachers
- Marita Lahti
- Course
- GERAHK710
Objective
Students are able to carry out planning, implementing and evaluation of a care and nursing process, which is based on elderly persons needs and which supports elderly persons functional capacities ia around- the clock care. They are able to carry out the most essential methods of care and nursing and they can support elderly people in everyday activities by streghtening his/her functional capacities and streghts.
Content
- care and nursing process, which supports functional capacities
- asepsis in care and nursing
- rehabilitative approach to work
- supporting and assisting clients in activities of daily living
- the most important nursing interventions
- counselling aged clients and their families
- documentation in nursing and care
Materials
Hoitotyön taidot ja toiminnot,
Hanna Rautava-Nurmi, Airi Westergård, Tarja Henttonen, 2019.
Teaching methods
lessons, practicaL training, exam
Exam schedules
in the end of the course
Student workload
3 x 26,5 h
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Students can design and can carry out around-the-clock care and care of elderly person in basic level.
Students know the methods of care and nursing at the level of daily functions.
Assessment criteria, good (3)
Students are able to plan, perform and evaluate the around-the-clock care of an elderly person in mutual understanging with him/her. Students know the basic methods of care and nursing of an elderly person and to support him/her in the daily functions.
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
Students can plan, perform and evaluate the around-the-clock care and the care of elderly person to support his ability to function in the mutual understanding with him/her.
Students know the methods of care and nursing of elderly person based on his/her individual needs to support the daily functions, strengthening his ability to function.
Level 3:
Level 1:
The student can in basic level design and can carry out around-the-clock care and care of elderly person.
The student knows the methods of care and nursing at the level of daily functions
Qualifications
- Introduction to anatomy and physiology, Introduction to Gerontology