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Gerontological nursing (5 cr)

Code: HT00DT90-3028

General information


Enrollment
06.04.2022 - 22.04.2022
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
29.08.2022 - 07.10.2022
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 cr
Local portion
5 cr
Mode of delivery
Contact learning
Unit
Department of Social Services and Health Care
Campus
Mikkeli Campus
Teaching languages
Finnish
Seats
20 - 50
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
Riitta Riikonen
Haija Kankkunen
Teea Lång
Groups
SHMI21SP
Nursing, full-time studies
Course
HT00DT90
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Objective

Gerontological nursing
You can apply information on changes resulting from aging in your nursing work.
You know how to promote the health, ability to function and resources of an aging person utilizing nursing methods and medication.
You can carry out safe medication for an elderly person and understand the special features of the elderly.
You can apply information on memory disorders, treating people with memory disorders and the associated services.
You can apply evidence-based information in gerontological nursing.

Palliative nursing
You know how to recognise the need for palliative or terminal care of a patient.
You know the palliative care service system.
You know how to make a treatment plan for the final stages together with the patient and his/her family, the doctor and other multiprofessional team members.
You can carry out nursing based on symptoms and humane palliative and terminal care.
You can apply evidence-based information in nursing palliative patients.

Content

Gerontological nursing
What are elderly care and geriatrics?
What are the changes related to aging and their effects on care?
How do you plan, carry out and assess safe medication?
How do you assess a person's ability to function and resources?
What are evidence-based health promotion and rehabilitation?
How do you take into consideration the risk factors anticipating the weakening of the ability to function and the prevention of accidents?
How do you carry out the assessment of a patient’s service needs?
How do you ensure the wellbeing of family carers and people taking care of their close ones?
Whar does gerotechnology bring to elderly care?
What are memory diseases and what is understood by medication of people with memory diseases?
How do you take into consideration the assessment of a person's nutritional status (malnutrition) and its significance in treating patients?
How do you apply evidence-based information in gerontological nursing?

Palliative nursing
What are palliative care and terminal care: key concepts, values and principles, juridical starting points?
What is palliative service system?
What does nursing in palliative and terminal care include?
How do you apply evidence-based information in nursing palliative patients?
How do you implement palliative and terminal care for a memory patient?
How do you encounter and support a memory person and their loved ones in palliative care – the living will, a valuable end of life?

Evaluation

Students can:
• use professional concepts of gerontology and palliative nursing consistently.
• search for information in key sources of information
• perceive tasks as a whole.
• justify their actions with evidence-based information.

Course material

Gerontologinen hoitotyö ja geriatria:
Kelo, Sini, Launiemi, Helena, Takaluoma, Matleena & Tiittanen, Hannele. (toim.) 2015. Ikääntynyt ihminen ja hoitotyö. Sanoma Pro Oy.
Heikkinen, Eino, Jyrkämä Jyrki & Rantanen, Taina (toim.).2020. Gerontologia. Duodecim.
Tilvis, Reijo, Pitkälä, Kaisu., Strandberg, Timo, Sulkava, Raimo & Viitanen, Matti (toim.). 2016. Geriatria. Duodecim.

Näiden lisäksi Learnissa oleva materiaali sekä mahd. tunneilla jaettava materiaali.

Study forms and methods

Työviikkopohjainen oppimisväylä:
Gerontologinen hoitotyö ja geriatria: Osallistut työjärjestyksen mukaiseen lähiopetukseen, joka sisältää esimerkiksi ryhmätehtäviä, harjoituksia, luentoja, opintokäyntejä. Itsenäisenä työskentelynä teet erikseen annettavia oppimistehtäviä sekä perehdyt osoitettavaan materiaaliin. Opiskelusi rytmittyvät työjärjestyksen mukaisten ja itsenäisten oppimistehtävien mukaan.
Opintojaksoinfossa saat tarkempaa tietoa mm. opintojakson suoritustavasta.


Työhön integroitu oppimisväylä:
Tällä opintojaksolla ei ole erikseen tarjolla opintoja nopeuttavaa oppimisväylää

RDI and work-related cooperation

Tähän teoriaopintojaksoon ei sisälly harjoittelua. Mahdollisesti työelämän asiantuntijan vierailut tunnilla ja / tai opintokäynnit työkentälle.

Timing of exams and assignments

Tentit ja muut määräajat ilmoitetaan opintojakson alussa pidettävässä INFOssa.

Mahdollinen uusintatentti suoritetaan yleisesti sovittuna uusintatenttipäivänä. Nämä uusintatenttipäivät ilmoitetaan opintojakson alussa.

International cooperation

-

Student workload

5 op = 135 h

Further information

Suosittelemme INFO -tunnille osallistumista!
Kontaktitunneilla on 80 % läsnäolovelvoite.

HUOM!!
Edeltävyysehtona opintojaksolle osallistumiselle on että olet suorittanut Kliinisen hoitotyön perusteet (5 op). Jos sinulla on tästä kysyttävää, laita ennen ilmoittautumista viestiä opintojakson opettajille.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Opintojakso sisältää numeerisesti arvioitavia tehtäviä ja tentin.
Geriatrian tentti arvioidaan asteikolla hyväksytty -hylätty.

Qualifications

The student has participated in Professional basics in nursing (25 ECTS credits) and Nursing in medical wards (5 ECTS credits)

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