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Practical training: Professional basics of nursing 2 (6 cr)

Code: SH00DI44-3026

General information


Enrollment

16.12.2019 - 10.01.2020

Timing

02.03.2020 - 27.03.2020

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Kouvola Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

25 - 35

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Health Care

Teachers

  • Pauliina Lehto

Teacher in charge

Pauliina Lehto

Groups

  • THKV19SP
    Health care, full-time studies

Objective

Client orientation
• you are able to recognise the clients’ experiential knowledge and attend to their personal needs in basic nursing situations

Ethics and professionality in nursing
• you are able to apply the values and ethical principles of nursing in your work
• you are able to work according to the legislation and ethical guidelines related to nursing and you are able to evaluate how well the legislation and guidelines in general are followed in the field of nursing
• you are able to act without violating human rights
• you are able to assess and develop your own work and take responsibility for your actions

Clinical nursing
• you know the basics of the human body structure, functions and regulating systems and the underlying factors
• you are able to respond to a specific need of care with proper nursing methods and document them applying structurally coherent classification
• you are able to apply the Finnish Nutrition Recommendations in the prevention and care of Finnish national diseases

Evidence-based practice and decision making
• you are able to utilize nursing-related research results in your decision making
• you know how to carry out data search using the most common health science database

Quality and safety of social and health services
• you know the legislative safety requirements concerning health care and legislation on patient safety
• you understand your professional responsibility and are able to ensure and promote patient safety
• you know your professional responsibility for ensuring and promoting safe operating environment

Content

Client orientation
• special features of client status in health care
• individual, family, and community as a client
• influence of client experience on treatment
• strengths approach

Ethics and professionality in nursing
• identification of ethical problems
• nursing as a profession and the use of one’s own personality in nursing

Clinical nursing
• nursing interventions (e.g. FinCC)
• national standardized electronic nursing documentation
• aseptic technique
• pharmacological treatment, dosage calculation
• nutrition therapy as part of the patient’s overall treatment
Evidence-based practice and decision making
• Problem solving process
• Evaluation of the nursing process
• Documentation practices in nursing
• Utilization of research knowledge

Quality and safety of social and health services
• ergonomics
• prevention, recognition and management of hazardous situations
• patient safety: equipment, treatment and medication safety
• extended obligation of confidentiality and data protection, patients’ right to access their own medical records
• security risks
• information systems and their use in patient information recording
• documentation and reporting

Qualifications

Anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology (5 ECTS)
Quality and safety of social and health care services (5 ECTS)
Basics of clinical nursing (5 ECTS)