Developing expertise in medical wardsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can apply your medical ward competence in providing specialised medical care to internal medicine patients.
You deepen your professional competence in medical wards in the following diseases: blood diseases, liver diseases, anemia, infectious diseases.
You can assess, plan and carry out the medication of patients in medical wards.
You are able to guide patients in medical wards and support their commitment to nursing.
You understand the significance of the family in supporting rehabilitation.
You are able to make independent decisions as part of the total care of a patient in medical wards.
You can work as a member in a multidisciplinary and multiprofessional team.
You can utilize evidence-based information to nursing in medical wards.

Content

How do you apply your medical ward competence tin specialised medical care?
How do you deepen your professional competence in medical wards in the following diseases: blood diseases, liver diseases, anemia, infectious diseases?
How do you assess, plan and carry out the medication of patients in medical wards?
How do you guide patients in medical wards so that they are committed to nursing and able to act safely promoting their own rehabilitation?
How do you take into account a patient’s family in supporting rehabilitation?
How do you make independent decisions as part of nursing in medical wards?
How do you work as a member in a multidisciplinary and multiprofessional team?
How do you utilize evidence-based information in nursing in medical wards?

Accomplishment methods

Students can
• use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
• evaluate information sources critically.
• work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
• choose appropriate methods and techniques in nursing according to the purpose and justify these choices.
• apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.