Health-Promoting Nursing (5cr)
Code: THO1C5-1
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.08.2015 - 02.08.2015
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 07.01.2016 - 30.09.2016
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing
- Teachers
- Katriina Kuhalampi
- Virpi Maijala
- Kirsi Kivistö-Rahnasto
- Course
- THO1C5
Evaluation scale
1-5
Objective
Students understand principles of health promotion and know how to act according to the values of health promotion. They understand the economic perspective of health promotion. Students are able to apply existing knowledge of the population's health challenges
on individual and community level. Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate individual, group and community-level health promotion methods. They are able to prevent risk factors, which might impair the individual's, family's or community's health and ability to function. Students know how to use the client's experiential knowledge in the care of health and diseases. Students can describe the strategies of important national and international health and social policy programmes from the perspective of health promotion.
Content
Levels of health promotion (individual, community, society) and forms of action (prevention, promotion). Ethics and principles of health promotion. The role of client's life history, lifestyle and situation in care. The Chronic Care Model and motivating interview in health promotion. Family development stages. The client's personal, situation-specific and external health factors. Resource and solution-based approach to health promotion. The link between health and health practices, prevention of risk behaviour, anticipation of health risks. Legislation for the promotion of health and wellbeing, national guidelines and policy programmes, international and national recommendations and strategies.
Materials
Will be announced in the course implementation plan
Teaching methods
Introductory lectures. Drama. Simulation-based exercises. Online learning. Study visits. Seminar. Independent assignments individually and in pairs.
Employer connections
Theoretical course
Student workload
Will be announced in the course implementation plan
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Client- and Population -Based Health Promotion
Qualifications
No previous studies required.