Health Promotion in Nursing, Information seeking 1 (5cr)

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Objective

Students understand principles of health promotion and know how to act according to the values of health promotion. They understand the economic perspective of health promotion. Students are able to apply existing knowledge of the population's health challenges
on individual and community level. Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate individual, group and community-level health promotion methods. They are able to prevent risk factors, which might impair the individual's, family's or community's health and ability to function. Students know how to use the client's experiential knowledge in the use of resource-oriented health-promotion methods at individual, family, group and community levels. Students can describe the strategies of important national and international health and social policy programmes from the perspective of health promotion.

Students know how to search, locate, evaluate and use scholarly information in studies and working life. Students know how to use databases of health sciences. Students know how to use library and information services effectively.

Content

Levels of health promotion (individual, family, community, society) and forms of action (promotion, prevention). Ethics and principles of health promotion. The role of client's life history, lifestyle and situation in care. Family development stages and family health routines. The client's personal, situation-specific and external health factors. Environment and health. Resource and solution-based approach to health promotion. Legislation for the promotion of health and wellbeing, national guidelines and policy programmes; international and national recommendations and strategies.

Library and information services. Information seeking process. Databases of health sciences.

Materials

Global Health Risks. Mortality and Burden of disease attributable to select major risks. GENEVA: WHO, 2009. www.who.int/healthinfo/ global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_full.pdf
WHO, THL, STM internet sites
www.hotus.fi
Information searching, articles in nursing sciences

Teaching methods

Lessons, exercises. seminars, independent studies

Student workload

26 h/ credit point (10 h contact lessons and exercises, 16 h independent studies).

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Client- and Population -Based Health Promotion
and in study entity Evidence-Based Nursing

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Client- and Population -Based Health Promotion
and in study entity Evidence-Based Nursing

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Client- and Population -Based Health Promotion
and in study entity Evidence-Based Nursing

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Failed
Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Client- and Population -Based Health Promotion
and in study entity Evidence-Based Nursing

Qualifications

No previous studies required

Further information

Written report is connected to Health promotion in nursing -course. Same task with information searching.