Practical training in Clinical Nursing 1 (13cr)

Content scheduling

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Objective

Students know how to use nursing interventions to respond to their patients' nursing needs and how to implement structured documentation using uniform classification. Students know how to apply the principles of preventing infections and explain why this is important in clinical nursing. Students know how to assess resources of patients and families from different cultural backgrounds and support them in planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. They know how to act in common first aid and life support situations. Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing interventions. Students take a rehabilitation and resource-centred approach to their work with patients and family members of all ages. Students assess needs for care using appropriate clinical and physiological tools or instruments, prioritise their findings and enter them onto the structured documentation system. Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate patients' drug care. Students implement Finnish nutritional guidelines. They understand the principles of safety management and sustainable development and are aware of their own responsibility in promoting these principles at the workplace. Students evaluate their professional competence critically from the perspectives of strengths and development needs.

Content

Practical training in settings which allow students to practise basic client-centred clinical nursing. Writing and presenting an assignment. eDrug Care Certificate. Competence test.

Location and time

Clinical Nursing environments

Materials

Teacher will give the material
Basics of Clinical Nursing Moodle
Articles
Material of Medication management
Material of Medication and fluid care
Material of Medical and Surgical Nursing

Teaching methods

Practical training in Clinical Nursing among adult patients.

Employer connections

Practical training happens in Clinical Nursing Environment under supervision of Registered Nurse and Clinical Nursing Teacher
The student will set his/her aims and makes self-assessment along the practical training. The teacher will follow how the student completes his/ her aims.

Exam schedules

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International connections

Some parts of the practical trainings is possible to complete in student exchange program Abroad

Completion alternatives

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Student workload

26,6h work / 1 credit

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Assessment criterias written in the sudy entity of Practical Training in Clinical Nursing during the early phase of the studies

Qualifications

Finnish working life 1 and 2