Study Guide

Objective

Client-orientation
• you know the importance of cultural backgrounds in nursing and you are prepared to encounter clients from various cultures

Ethics and professionality in nursing
• you understand the nature of nursing as a profession and the professional identity of a nurse
• you are able to assess and develop your own work and take responsibility for your actions
• you are able to evaluate your own skills and development in interaction with others
• you are able to share and use professional competence and partnership work skills in multidisciplinary teams and networks

Clinical nursing
• you are able to support and promote the well-being of families
• you are familiar with the normal proceedings of pregnancy, labour and post-natal period, and you are able to monitor them
• you are able to support families in parenting and newborn care

Evidence-based practice and decision making
• you are able to apply research knowledge (recommendations, reports based on research evidence) in nursing decision making
• you are able to evaluate the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation) and assess nursing interventions according to the decision making process
• you are able to utilize research knowledge (recommendations, reports based on research evidence) in nursing decision making

Promotion of health and functional ability
• you are able to plan, execute and evaluate interventions promoting health and functional ability on individual, group and communal levels utilizing multi-disciplinary and multi-professional networks

Patient education competence
• you are able to plan, implement and evaluate patient education in a client- and group-oriented manner together with other professionals
• you manage patient education as part of nursing work in different contexts

Content

Client- orientation
• professional interaction, dialogue, client work skills, communication skills
• influence of cultural background in interaction and encountering the client

Ethics and professionality in nursing
• professional growth and development
• collegiality
• adaptation to nursing as a profession and one’s own personality in nursing work

Clinical nursing
• growth and development of children and the young
• most common diseases in childhood and adolescence
• forms and methods of family work
• pregnancy, labour and birth, post-natal period
• neo-natal care
• support in parenting

Evidence-based practice and decision making
• evaluation of the nursing process
• documentation in nursing
• data search
• utilization of research knowledge
• evidence-based practice and decision making

Patient education competence
• patient education process: needs assessment, planning, implementation and documentation

Promotion of health and functional ability
• identification of the need for a change, definition of aims and agreements on the means to meet objectives
• principles of monitoring and evaluating health results and their effects
• effective methods for promoting health and functional ability including rehabilitation

Qualifications

You have proven your competence in the following studies:
Maternity and family nursing 5 ECTS
Community and homecare nursing 5 ECTS

Materials

Module: Evidence-based nursing 25 ECTS