Study Guide

Objective

Students are able to counsel and support clients in issues related to their couple relationship and family planning. In cooperation with the families, students plan, implement and evaluate the monitoring and strengthening of child-expecting families' health, wellbeing and resources. Students know how to assess the health of the mother and fetus, detect risks related to pregrancy or childbirth and, when necessary, refer the client to further care. Student can manage labour and sudden deliveries. Students plan, implement and evaluate the newborn baby's and family's support and promote their participation.

Content

Practical training in maternity health clinics, hospital maternity clinics, devivery rooms and rooming-in. eDrug Care Certificate. Assignments.

Evaluation scale

1-5

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

Theoretical studies on public health nursing of child-expecting families
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