Practical training: Public health nursing 1Laajuus (12 cr)

Objective

You are able to design, implement and evaluate public health nursing in different phases of life and to use theoretical knowledge in it.
You are able to apply essential health promotion and working methods in public health nursing for individuals, families and communities.
You are able to use multi-professional health care forms and utilize multi-professional networks.

Content

How can you promote the health and capability of a family expecting to have a baby?
How can you promote the health and capability of a child and his family?
How can you promote the health and capability of a schoolchild, a teenager and their family?
How can you promote the health and capability of a student?
How can you promote the health and capability of a person of working age?
What are the key methods of the individual-, family- and community-based health promotion?
How do you plan, implement and evaluate health promotion in a multi-professional team?

Evaluation

Students can
c) work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the demands and challenges of the professional field.

d) evaluate their operations in customer, user and target group situations.

e) choose appropriate models and methods of public health nursing according to the purpose and justify these choices.

g) apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.

Qualifications

Previously approved studies of public health nursing.

Materials

Theoretical studies of public health nursing.
Public health