Study Guide

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

Development of evidence-based public health nursing and health promotion. Using project results and other work community competence in public health nursing. Foresight ability, megatrends and signals of change. Reflective approach to work, critical understanding and evaluation. Promotion of client skills.

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

Management and Development of Public Health Nursing 1