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Professional Interaction and Guiding Skills (3 cr)

Code: SH00DN06-3002

General information


Enrollment

06.01.2025 - 19.01.2025

Timing

07.01.2025 - 27.04.2025

Credits

3 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

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

Teachers

  • Meri Matala-Aho
  • Tarja Knuuttila

Student groups

  • SH25K
    Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Full-time studies

Objective

The student
-knows how to meet clients, families and community members as an expert of one's own life.
-is able to communicate in a professional and therapeutic context with clients and next-of-kin of various ages.
-can evaluate and develop his/her interaction and co-operation skills.

-is able to assess the client's / patient's needs, resources and own responsibility in planning guidance and self-care.
-can plan and implement individual and group counseling together with the client / patient and other experts.
-can use customer / patient-oriented teaching and guidance methods.
-can evaluate the results of guidance together with the client / patient and next of kin
-is able to support the client / patient and his/ her next-of-kin in committing to care.

Content

The individual, family and community as a client
Interaction and cooperation skills
Professional and therapeutic interaction
Care delivery models, working in pairs and teams
Networking skills
Participation in classes
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Assessment of the needs, resources and responsibility of the client/patient in planning guidance and self-care.
Identification of persons in need of multiple services.
Requirements for implementation of patient guidance.
Knowledge-based, social and emotional guidance.
Client/patient-centered education and guidance methods.
Patient-centered and diversified use of guidance methods: oral and written guidance, demonstration, telephone and audio-visual guidance, group guidance and individual guidance.
Impact, quality and sufficiency of guidance
Pedagogy and ethics in plans, implementation and evaluation of guidance supporting the client’s /patient’s self-care.
Legislation supporting guidance

Materials

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Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
The student
-recognizes strengths and weaknesses in his/her interaction and co-operation skills, seeks to develop his/her skills and to adapt his/her course of action accordingly.
-is able to act in individual interaction and co-operation situations according to instructions.
-knows how to work with various actors in a professional manner, observing equality principles.
-examines his/her strengths and development needs in relation to client-centered professional competence.
- knows superficially the concept of guidance and the factors influencing the quality of the guiding process and is able to superficially adapt the guiding methods.
- have made an effort to structure the subject area, but the treatment remains narrow and superficial in relation to the professional field.
-illustrative tools are used sparingly or do not support the presentation.
-is unable to reflect on his/her own strengths and development needs

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
tudent
-can work well in customer-oriented interaction and cooperation situations.
-actively participates in the group learning process and in sharing what has been learned.
-can work in an equitable and professional manner with a variety of actors.
-develops client-oriented professional competence.
-understands the concept of guidance, the factors influencing the quality of guidance and is able to use evidence-based guidance methods.
-understands the subject area in line with the learning objectives of the course, with some links to the professional framework.
-makes informed use of source material, own expertise and experiential knowledge.
-has a positive attitude towards guidance.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
The student
-can assess and develop his/her own strengths and weaknesses in interpersonal and cooperation skills and adapt his/her activities accordingly.
-can act reasonably and customer-oriented in interaction and cooperation situations.
-can work in different working groups and share client-oriented professional skills.
-can take responsibility for the learning process in a group and for sharing what has been learnt.
- can actively develop themselves and their skills in client-oriented professional competence.
-understands the concept of supervision, the factors influencing the quality of supervision and is able to apply evidence-based supervision methods in nursing practice.
-processes information in a critical, evaluative and constructive manner.
-justifies his/her decisions by making informed use of source material, his/her own expertise and experiential knowledge.
-can demonstrate independent, critical and creative thinking and expertise in his/her field.
-has a positive attitude towards guidance and is able to give constructive peer feedback.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Failed = 0
The student
-recognizes strengths and weaknesses in interaction and has co-operation skills, but does not seek to develop himself/herself or to adapt his/her action accordingly.
-is not able to act in a professional manner in interaction and co-operation situations.
-is not able to follow instructions to demonstrate client-centered professional competence.
-does not participate in the learning process nor shares knowledge with his/her peers.
-does not want to or does not know how to work with various actors in a a professional manner, considering equality principles.
- is unfamiliar with the concept of guidance and its manifestation in nursing practice.
- is not able to recognize the factors influencing the quality of guidance or to name the guiding methods.

Qualifications

No prerequisites