Study Guide

Objective

The student implements multi-professional nursing care for medical and infectious diseases or surgical patients while taking into consideration the patient's age, growth and development stage, the requirements of ethicality and the care and service setting. The student knows how to assess the resources of patients and families from different cultural backgrounds and how to support them in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. The student can plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions for patients and family members of all ages facing common medical conditions, infectious diseases, disability or surgical treatments. The student is able to do documentation and oral reporting. The student can use evidence-based interventions developed for medical conditions, infectious diseases, surgical, gynaelogical or palliative nursing to help, support and counsel patients and family members of all ages. The student is competent in common nursing procedures and diagnostic examinations used as part of acute or chronically ill patients' total care. The student knows how to safely plan, implement and evaluate drug and fluid care and blood transfusions for adult patients. The student knows how to implement nutritional care. The student knows how to support and promote patients' and families' health and ability to function. The student is able to help and support patients and family members of all ages in palliative care and end-of-life nursing situations. The student is able to counsel and support patients and families of all ages in self-care. The student can observe asepsis and is able to explain why this is important in nursing care. 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 practise nursing medical patients and infectious diseases patients or which allow practising palliative and end-of-life care. eDrug Care Certificate. Writing and presentation of an assignment. Competence test.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
The student
- does not know how to search 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

Qualifications

Workshops, simulation, drug calculations passed
Practical Training in Basics of Clinical Nursing 9 cr