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Children, Young People and Family Nursing (3 cr)

Code: SH00CO06-3004

General information


Enrollment

17.04.2023 - 06.09.2023

Timing

09.10.2023 - 31.12.2023

Credits

3 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing
  • Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing

Teachers

  • Carita Sandell-Kaukonen
  • Kirsi Kivistö-Rahnasto

Student groups

  • SH21S

Objective

The student
-implements multi-professional family nursing care while taking into consideration the patient's age, growth and development stage, the requirements of ethicality and the care and service settings.
-knows how to assess the resources of patients and their next-of-kin of different cultural backgrounds.
-is able to plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions for children, young people and their next-of-kin facing common health changes, problems and diseases.
-can use evidence-based interventions to help, support and counsel families planning, expecting and giving birth to a child as well as children, young people and their families.
-supports and promotes children's, young people's and families' health and ability to function.
-knows how to support children, young people and families during crisis and change.
-is able to counsel and support children, young people and their next-of-kin in self-care and rehabilitation.
-knows how to encounter disabled children, young people and their next-of-kin.
-uses current knowledge of paediatrics.

Content

Health promotion, self-care support and rehabilitation in family nursing.
The most important nursing interventions (FinCC) for nursing children, young people and their next-of-kin.
The national documentation model for nursing.
The impact of the patient's age, sex, cultural background, growth and development stage, ethicality and care and service setting on family nursing.
Nursing, rehabilitation and counselling of children, young people and their families.
Nursing, rehabilitation and counselling of disabled children and young people and their families.
Children, young people and their families as clients of child welfare services.
Assessment of nursing needs, monitoring of patients, essential examinations and nursing procedures as well as diagnostic examinations in family nursing.
Drug care and drug calculations
Multi-professionalism in family nursing.
Counselling of children, young people and families.
A safe nursing environment. Occupational safety. Paediatrics.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
The student
- uses the knowledge foundation of client-centered clinical nursing narrowly.
- on a satisfactory level, seeks information and uses evidence-based knowledge to explain his/her actions in client-centered clinical nursing.
- on a satisfactory level, implements his/her competence in client-centered clinical nursing in various registered nursing/public health nursing situations.
- is capable of client-centered and safe clinical practice based on ethical principles.
- possesses adequate skills in client-centered clinical decision-making.
- is, to some extent, prepared to develop client-centered clinical nursing.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
The student
- competently and extensively uses the concepts and knowledge of client-centered clinical nursing.
- evaluates and critically uses evidence-based knowledge in client-centered clinical nursing.
- implements his/her competence in client-centered clinical nursing in an anticipatory manner and is capable of independent decision-making in various client-centered clinical nursing situations.
- is capable of client-centered, responsible and safe clinical practice.
- applies alternative solutions to decision-making in client-centered clinical nursing.
- evaluates action and safety in client-centered clinical nursing based on professional ethical principles of registered nursing/public health nursing.
- acts as an expert of client-centered clinical nursing in multidisciplinary teams and projects in collaboration with people who represent different cultures.
- purposefully develops himself/herself and the working community in client-centered clinical nursing.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
The student
- demonstrates competence in the nursing scientific knowledge base and competently applies this knowledge to client-centered clinical nursing.
- independently seeks, uses and critically evaluates international evidence-based nursing scientific knowledge in client-centered clinical nursing.
- implements his/her competence in client-centered clinical nursing in an anticipatory manner and is capable of independent decision-making in various client-centered clinical nursing situations.
- assumes responsibility for the patient's/client's care and service process in client-centered clinical nursing.
- creates innovative alternative solutions to decision-making in client-centered clinical nursing.
- develops action and safety based on the professional ethics of registered nursing/public health nursing in client-centered clinical nursing.
-as an expert of client-centered clinical nursing, develops action in multidisciplinary teams and projects in collaboration with people who represent different cultures.
- develops himself/herself, the profession and practice in client-centered clinical nursing purposefully, with a career-oriented approach.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
The student
- does not adequately appreciate or use the knowledge base of client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not adequately able to give reasons for the chosen actions in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not adequately able to apply to practice his/her knowledge of client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not capable of adequate client-centered and safe clinical practice.
- does not possess adequate decision-making skills for client-centered clinical nursing.
- does not adequately take into consideration safety or ethical principles in client-centered clinical nursing.

Qualifications

Registed Nurse`s Competence in Basics of Clinical Nursing
Evidence-Based Clinical Competence of Registered Nurses 1