Practical Training: Gerontological Nursing (8 cr)
Code: GERAHK111-3006
General information
- Enrollment
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17.04.2023 - 06.09.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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01.01.2024 - 31.05.2024
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 8 cr
- Local portion
- 8 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- SeAMK Social Services and Elderly Care
- Campus
- SeAMK Seinäjoki, Kampustalo
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services and Health Care, Applied Gerontology
- Teachers
- Aino Asunmaa
- Maria Valli
- Course
- GERAHK111
Evaluation scale
Passed/failed
Objective
After completing the course, the student is able to plan, implement and evaluate gerontological care and rehabilitation work based on an assessment of the needs and resources of a sick elderly person as part of the comprehensive care and service planning for the elderly. The student can take into account the needs and resources of a sick elderly person and work as part of a multiprofessional network. The student knows how to use RAI assessment. The student knows the process of pharmacotherapy in the elderly. The student understands the care and support needs of an elderly person and those close to him or her in the convalescent phase. He / she is able to reflect on and solve ethical problems in the care of a sick elderly person.
Content
Students select a practical training setting in a care or rehabilitation unit or in home or in institutional care of ill older people in order to reach the learning outcomes defined for the course.
Teaching methods
Orientation, practical training, learning assignment, seminar
Employer connections
Practical training
Student workload
212 hours, 200h practical training
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
x
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass
Upon completion of the course, students will know how to plan, implement and evaluate nursing and rehabilition to meet the needs and resources of ill older people. Students will learn the most important nursing interventions. Students will learn to describe the drug care process for ill older people. They will be prepared to support and counsel old people and families during end-of-life care. Students will be capable of reflection and solving ethical problems in the care and nursing of ill older people.
Further information
If you have previously acquired expertise in care work for the elderly, try to find pracical training place that offers you new learning or strengthen your previous expertise in the care and rehabilitation of the elderly in the field of work for the elderly. You can take, for example, the development of nursing work as a point of view.