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Home care and execise (5 cr)

Code: GE00CO59-3002

General information


Enrollment

15.08.2019 - 30.08.2019

Timing

02.09.2019 - 31.12.2019

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

  • Sari Ranta
  • Merja Laitoniemi

Groups

  • GEKV18SM
    Elderly 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?

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