Nursing in medical wardsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can apply information on key internal diseases in nursing.
You master the key treatments together with nursing methods and medication in caring for patients with internal diseases.
You are able to take care palliative care and support for non-malignant diseases (especially COPD, heart failure, ALS).
You are able to implement the pharmacotherapy of an internally ill patient and a palliative patient using pharmacology that is safely applied.
You can carry out the medication of internal disease patients in a safe manner utilizing applied pharmacology.
You can apply information on key cancer diseases in nursing.
You master the key nursing methods in nursing cancer patients.
You are able to use guiding and teaching as a nurse’s work method in nursing internal diseases.
You can apply evidence-based information in nursing patients with internal diseases.
You can apply evidence-based information in nursing cancer patients.
You can apply the principles of radiation safety.

Content

What are the most common special fields in internal diseases?
What are the treatments and methods used in nursing patients with internal diseases?
How is medication carried out in the most common internal diseases and palliative care?
How do you guide a patient and engage him/her to self-care?
How do you apply evidence-based information in nursing patients with internal diseases?
How do you implement palliative care and support for non-malignant diseases (especially COPD, heart failure, ALS)?
What are the most common cancer diseases?
What are the treatments and methods used in nursing cancer patients?
How do you apply evidence-based information in nursing cancer patients?
How do you apply the principles of radiation safety?

Accomplishment methods

Students can:
• use the professional concepts of internal and cancer diseases consistently.
• search for information in key information sources of the field.
• perceive tasks as a whole.
• utilize the key treatments and methods and medication in nursing patients with internal diseases.
• justify one’s actions with evidence-based information.