Home care and exercise (5 cr)
Code: GE00CO59-3003
General information
Enrollment
15.08.2020 - 04.09.2020
Timing
01.08.2020 - 18.12.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Kouvola Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Elderly Care
Teachers
- Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela
- Sari Ranta
Teacher in charge
Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela
Groups
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GEKV19SMElderly care, part-time studies
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?
Evaluation scale
1-5
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