Practical Training: Gerontological Nursing (7cr)

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Objective

The student is able to take into account the needs and resources of a sick elderly person and, based on them, utilise a rehabilitative work approach. The student is able to work as part of a multi-professional network. The student knows how to use RAI assessment. The student knows the process of pharmacotherapy in the elderly. The student understands the care and support needs of an elderly person and those close to him or her in the convalescent phase. He / she is able to comprehend on and solve ethical problems in the care of a sick elderly person.

Content

Students select a practical training setting in a care or rehabilitation unit or in home or in institutional care of ill older people in order to reach the learning outcomes defined for the course.

Teaching methods

Orientation
Practical training
Learning assignment
Seminar

Employer connections

Practical training

Student workload

7 x 27h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

x

Assessment criteria, good (3)

x

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

x

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass
Upon completion of the course, students will know how to plan, implement and evaluate nursing and rehabilition to meet the needs and resources of ill older people. Students will learn the most important nursing interventions. Students will learn to describe the drug care process for ill older people. They will be prepared to support and counsel old people and families during end-of-life care. Students will be capable of reflection and solving ethical problems in the care and nursing of ill older people.

Further information

If you have previously acquired expertise in care work for the elderly, try to find pracical training place that offers you new learning or strengthen your previous expertise in the care and rehabilitation of the elderly in the field of work for the elderly. You can take, for example, the development of nursing work as a point of view.