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Medical Nursing (4 cr)

Code: SH00DF29-3004

General information


Enrollment

22.04.2024 - 04.09.2024

Timing

02.09.2024 - 22.12.2024

Credits

4 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

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

Teachers

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

Student groups

  • MSH23S
    Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Multimodal implementation

Objective

The student
-understands the meaning of asepsis and knows how to act according to it in the different stages of the treatment of an internal medicine patient.
-understands the central monitoring and nursing methods needed in the nursing work of internal medicine patients of different ages as part of the patient's overall care and knows how to work in a multiprofessional work group.
-understands the importance of supporting the health, functional capacity, rehabilitation and self-care of internal medicine patients of different ages and their closest relatives.
-understands the importance of patient safety and knows how to prevent dangerous events in all phases of the patient care process.
-understands the importance of internal medicine patient's background in nursing work.
-safely and reliably applies evidence-based information in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing work.

Content

Nursing for most important internal medicine and cancer diseases
Assessing the need for nursing care of a patient suffering from an internal or cancer disease and monitoring the patient's basic vital functions.
Key research and treatment procedures and diagnostic tests in nursing work.
Registration according to the national registration model
Multiprofessionalism in nursing work
Treatment, rehabilitation and guidance of internal medicine patients' pain
Different environments, ethical requirements and the importance of the patient's background in nursing work
Skills-labs and simulations

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
The student
- uses narrowly her/ his professional knowledge.
- uses with limitation his/ her professional knowledge and skills in various nursing situations.
- knows the very basics of client-oriented and patient-safe nursing.
- owns the basics of professional decision-making skills in customer-oriented clinical nursing work.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4

The student
- applies evidence-based knowledge fluently.
- applies his/her professional knowledge of client-oriented clinical nursing and is capable of independent decision-making in various client-oriented clinical nursing situations.
- is able to apply customer-oriented, responsible and patient-safe care.
- can apply clinical nursing solutions to professional decision-making in customer-oriented clinical nursing.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
The student
- demonstrates competence in 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 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
- values and uses knowledge in the client-oriented clinical nursing work insufficiently.
- insufficiently justifies his / her client-oriented clinical nursing activities.
- applies his / her professional knowledge in client-oriented clinical nursing work insufficiently.
- does not know how to act sufficiently in client-oriented and patient-safe customer-oriented clinical nursing work.
- has insufficient professional decision-making skills in client-oriented clinical nursing work.
- does not sufficiently take into account the safety and ethical principles of the profession in the operation of client-oriented clinical nursing work.

Qualifications

Basics of Clinical Nursing
Drug Care and Drug Calculations