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Medical Nursing (3 cr)

Code: SH00CN98-3011

General information


Enrollment

17.04.2023 - 11.10.2023

Timing

09.10.2023 - 17.03.2024

Credits

3 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

0.5 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

1 - 40

Degree programmes

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

Teachers

  • Hanna Keski-Saari
  • Meri Matala-Aho
  • Marika Toivonen

Student groups

  • SH23K

Objective

The student
-is capable of working in a multi-professional team and is able to consider the patient's age, growth and development stage.
-is able to assess the resources of patients and their relatives coming from different cultural backgrounds.
-is able to take this assessment into consideration when planning, implementing and evaluating the medical nursing.
-can use evidence-based implementations developed for medical nursing to help, support, and counsel patients and family members of all ages.
-knows how to act aseptically.
-is competent in common nursing procedures and diagnostic examinations used as part of medical nursing.
-knows how to support and promote medical patients' and families' health, self-care, rehabilitation and ability to function.
-Identifies, assesses and manages the client’s /patient’s pain
-documents the nursing care of client/patient according to the nursing care process; assesses the client’s/patient’s need for interventions (care) in accordance with the Finnish Care Classification (FinCC), plans and implements interventions using the Finnish Classification of Nursing Interventions (FiCNI), evaluates nursing outcomes using the Finnish Classification of Nursing Outcomes (FiCNO), as well as produces a summary of the nursing care.

Content

Health promotion, self-care support and rehabilitation in nursing medical patients and their families.
Nursing interventions (FinCC) in nursing patients with medical conditions national documentation model for nursing.
The impact of the patient's age, sex, cultural background, growth and development stage and care and service setting on the care of medical diseases patients and their families. Assessment of nursing needs and monitoring vital functions of medical patients.
Essential examinations and nursing procedures.
Nursing, rehabilitation and counselling of patients and families suffering from nationally prevalent diseases.
Nursing, rehabilitation and counselling of patients and families suffering from common medical diseases.
Multi-professionalism in nursing
Skills-labs and simulations
A safe nursing environment. Occupational safety.

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 the actions in client-centered clinical nursing.
- on a satisfactory level, implements his/her competence in client-centered clinical nursing in various 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 their 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 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 nursing /public health nursing in client-centered clinical nursing.
- as an expert of client-centered clinical nursing, develops action in multi-disciplinary 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 their chosen actions in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not adequately able to apply their 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.
-is not prepared to develop client-centered clinical nursing.

Qualifications

Basics of Clinical Nursing
Drug Care and Drug Calculations