Study Guide

Objective

In cooperation with families, students plan, implement and evaluate monitoring children's, school-age children's and young people's growth and development. Students know how to help children, school-age children and young people to make health-promoting choices. Students encourage the parents in their role and in the promotion of a healthy lifestyle. Students are able to assess children's, school-age children's and young people's needs for special support and follow-up care. Together with families and various stakeholders, students promote the creation of a safe community and environment.

Content

Practical training in child health clinics. 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 children and their families, drug calculations