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Clinical Training in the Basics of Clinical Nursing (7 cr)

Code: BA00CP44-3002

General information


Enrollment

06.09.2021 - 31.10.2021

Timing

24.04.2023 - 28.05.2023

Credits

7 op

Teaching languages

  • English

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing

Teachers

  • Meri Matala-Aho
  • Paula Paloniemi

Student groups

  • MRN22
    Degree Programme in Nursing, Nursing Branch, Registered Nurse, RN, (UAS)

Objective

The student
- is able to use nursing interventions to respond to the patients' nursing needs and to implement structured documentation using structured classification.
- is able to apply the principles of preventing infections and explain why this is important in clinical nursing.
- is able to assess resources of patients and next-of-kin from different cultural backgrounds and support them in planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
- knows how to act in common first aid and life support situations.
- is able to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing interventions.
- takes a rehabilitation and resource-centered approach to his/her work with patients and family members of all ages.
- can assess needs for care using appropriate clinical and physiological tools or instruments, prioritize the findings and enter them into the structured documentation system.
- is able to plan, implement and evaluate patients' drug care.
- can implement Finnish nutritional guidelines.
- understands the principles of safety management and sustainable development, and is aware of his/her responsibility in promoting these principles at the workplace.
- can evaluate his/her professional competence critically from the perspectives of strengths and development needs.

Content

Practical training in clinical nursing settings which allow students to practice basic client-centered clinical nursing. Writing and presenting an assignment. eDrug Care Certificate. Competence test.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail=0
The student
- does not know how to seek information required in individual situations in client-centered clinical nursing.
- cannot demonstrate the ability to use the knowledge base of client-centered clinical nursing.
- does not make a difference between everyday knowledge and evidence-based knowledge in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not competent to work in individual client-centered clinical nursing situations even though instructed.
- cannot demonstrate awareness of the ethical principles for registered nurses in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not competent to work as a member of a team or to share his/her knowledge in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is unable to analyze his/her strengths or development needs in client-centered clinical nursing.
- does not follow Finnish working life rules.