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Professional Competence in Elderly Care (2 cr)

Code: GERPOS400-3008

General information


Enrollment

11.11.2024 - 15.01.2025

Timing

06.01.2025 - 16.05.2025

Credits

2 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor of Social Services and Health Care, Applied Gerontology

Teachers

  • Tua Niemelä

Student groups

  • MGERO22

Objective

Students learn to analyze current and future challenges in elderly care and in their profession as Bachelors of Social Services and Health Care. They analyze their competence acquired during the studies, their professional growth and development challenges.

Content

- the expertise and competence requirements of Bachelors of Social Services and Health Care
- Analyzing the reflection on current and future challenges in elderly care.
- analysis of the student's own competence compared to the competence requirements

Materials

Material chosen by the student to describe their professional growth.

Teaching methods

Lectures, joint discussions, presentation of one's own professional growth in writing and by various means in the seminar

Student workload

54 h

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

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Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass:
Students are able to analyze current and future challenges in elderly care and in their profession as Bachelors of Social Services and Health Care. They can analyze their competences acquired during the studies, their professional growth and development challenges.

Fail:
Students are not able to analyze the challenges of elderly care or their professional competences.

Assessment methods and criteria

Presentation of your own professional growth in a joint seminar.

Qualifications

Basic and professional studies