Study Guide

Objective

Students become aware of current challenges in society and respond to them in a health-promotive manner for the best interests of their clients. Students are able to speak for their clients and to communicate information of health and wellbeing. Students participate in public discussion on the health and wellbeing of the population, both from the national and international perspective. They know how to cooperate with the public, private and third sector. Students contribute to the development of services and products in cooperation with other professionals and service users. They develop public health nursing based on evidence and use quality guidelines in their work. Students possess cost-awareness and they observe the effectiveness of preventive work and early support. The offer their clients appropriate services and ensure the continuity of the service pathway. Students are able to act as experts of public health nursing in various media.

Content

Current challenges in society and their impact on the public health nurse's work, active approach to society. Changes in working life and their effect on individuals, families and communities. Mechanisms of decision-making and power. Bringing up health perspectives to support public decision-making, speaking for health. Multidisciplinary information, coordination of services, multiprofessional action. The public, private and third sector. Service provision systems and products, their development and the underlying principles. Quality and quality criteria in the health service and in public health nursing, quality guidelines. Introduction to the evaluation of effectiveness. Planning, implementation and evaluation of activity and economy, cost control and cost-effectiveness. Client feedback, client forums, evidence-based knowledge. The client's combination of services, case management and service pathway. Cooperation with media: radio, TV, Internet, social media, articles.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
Students are able to assume responsibility for clients' internal and external safety. They use, to an adequate level, dialogic and client-centred discussion and make an effort to involve clients' families and significant others in health care. Students know to an adequate degree how to use appropriate counselling methods to help maintain and promote individuals'/families' health. In their counselling work, students attend to client individuality and self-determination. Students are adequately able to promote clients' and their families' resources and to intervene to fight health risks. They know how to use multi-sectoral teams to promote clients' health. They are able to describe the outcomes and effectiveness of health promotion. Students are able to independently plan and implement target-oriented family-centred public health nursing and make decisions together with clients and their families. Students know how to promote the health of individuals, families, groups, communities and the environment using evidence-based public health nursing methods on adequate level. Students know how to follow up and support clients' individual health, growth and development on adequate level. Students know how to engage in multisectoral collaboration.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
Students are able to assume responsibility for clients' internal and external safety. They know how to use methods of dialogic and client-centred discussion and encourage clients' families' and significant others' participation in health care. Students know how to use appropriate counselling methods to help maintain and promote individuals'/families' health and to encourage self-care. In their counselling work, students attend to client individuality and self-determination. Students know how to promote clients' and their families' resources and how to intervene to fight health risks. They know how to work in multi-sectoral teams to promote clients' health. They are able to evaluate the outcomes and effectiveness of health promotion. Students are able to independently plan and implement target-oriented family-centred public health nursing and make decisions together with clients and their families. Students are competent to promote the health of individuals, families, groups, communities and the environment using evidence-based public health nursing methods. Students know how to follow up and support clients' individual health, growth and development. Students are able to engage in multisectoral collaboration.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
Students are able to assume responsibility for clients' internal and external safety. They are competent in dialogical and client-centred discussion and encourage clients' families' and significant others' participation in health care. Students know how to counsel individuals/families on the maintenance and promotion of their health and on self-care, using appropriate counseling methods. In their counselling work, students attend to client individuality and self-determination. Students know how to promote clients' and their families' resources and how to intervene to fight health risks. They know how to work in multi-sectoral teams to promote clients' health. They are able to evaluate and argue for the outcomes and effectiveness of health promotion.
Students are able to independently plan, implement and evaluate target-oriented family-centred public health nursing and make decisions together with clients and their families. Students are competent to promote the health of individuals, families, groups, communities and the environment using evidence-based public health nursing methods. Students know how to follow up and support clients' individual health, growth and development. Students know how to implement and evaluate multi-sectoral collaboration in the public health nurse's work.

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.

Qualifications

No previous studies required