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Inpatient care in elderly care and exercise (5 cr)

Code: GE00CO65-3002

General information


Enrollment

14.12.2020 - 14.01.2021

Timing

01.01.2021 - 28.05.2021

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Kouvola Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Elderly Care

Teachers

  • Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela

Groups

  • GEKV18SM
    Elderly care, part-time studies

Objective

You know how a round-the-clock based treatment unit is organized and what their client processes are.

You know elderly based planning, implementing and evaluating nursing.

You can use rehabilitative methods.

You know basic nursing methods and medication care.

You know essential diseases of elderly people, and their processes and treatment.

You know how to work in an aseptic and ethical way.

You can work in multi-professional working groups.

You can work with the families and close ones of an elderly person.

You know the connection between aging, disease and exercise.

You know which are suitable methods of exercise.

You can use exercise as part of care.

Content

What is round-the-clock nursing, what processes does it include and where is it implemented?

How to plan, implement and evaluate nursing?

How to implement rehabilitative work?

How to implement safe medication care?

How to work in an aseptic way?

What diseases are typical to elderly people and how are they treated?

How to cooperate with the close ones of an elderly person?

How to work in a multi-professional work group?



What kind of exercise services are provided by the unit?

How are they implemented?

How are methods of exercise adapted with individuals and within the unit?

How can the personnel's level of exercise knowledge be enhanced?

How does exercise promote personnel's functional capacity?

Evaluation scale

Approved/Failed

Qualifications

Basis in elderly care 20 ECTS credits
Work method basis in elderly care 15 ECTS credits
Promotion of wellbeing and health in aging 15 ECTS credits
Memory disorders and group counselling skills 5 ECTS credits
Mental heath, substance abuse and disability service work 5 ECTS credits
Promotion of performance in aging and exercise 5 ECTS credits
Early services in elderly care and exercise 5 ECTS credits
Home care and exercise 5 ECTS credits
Promotion of carer identity and exercise 5 ECTS credits
Gerontological social service work and exercise 5 ECTS credits
Wellbeing in memory disorders and exercise 5 ECTS credits