Home care and exerciseLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You learn to promote the health and performance of elderly people in home care.

You get trained in multi-professional care and rehabilitation in home care.

You can prepare a nursing and service plan for aging people living at home.

You know client processes in home care.

You know nursing methods and medication care in home care.

You can apply rehabilitative methods.

You can work in multi-professional working groups.

You can evaluate learning experiences.

You can use methods of exercise in various environments of care at home.

You can use methods of exercise to promote wellbeing of the workgroup.

You get practice in exercise counseling.

Content

How to make a nursing and service plan?

What are the characteristics of home care?

What kind of client processes are there in home care?

How to promote health and performance in home care?

What nursing methods can be used in home care?

What is rehabilitative work in home care?

What is multi-professional work in home care?

How are exercise methods implemented in home care?

How can they be developed?

Qualifications

Promotion of performance in aging and exercise 5 ECTS credits
Early services in elderly care and exercise 5 ECTS credits
Basics of pharmacotherapy 5 ECTS credits
Gerontological nursing and nursing skills 5 ECTS credits

Materials

Memory disorders and group counselling skills 5 ECTS credits
Mental heath, substance abuse and disability service work 5 ECTS credits

Evaluation

Assessment criteria level 3: entry-level know-how and skills
Students can
a. use professional vocabulary systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. work together with customers, users and target groups.
e. use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.
f. work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.