Gerontological nursing and nursing skills (5 cr)
Code: GE00CO51-3003
General information
- Enrollment
- 15.08.2020 - 04.09.2020
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.08.2020 - 14.05.2021
- 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 Promotion of Functional Ability
- Campus
- Kouvola Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 20 - 40
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Care for Older Adults
- Teachers
- Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela
- Merja Laitoniemi
- Satu Sällilä
- Teacher in charge
- Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela
- Groups
-
GEKV19SMElderly care, part-time studies
- Course
- GE00CO51
Objective
You can plan, implement and evaluate individual care of aged people with them and their near ones
You know nursing theories and can analyze and evaluate their suitability to overall care of elderly people
You know basics in nursing
You use nursing methods in a respectful way, implementing individual care
You can assess the functional ability of the client and use rehabilitation methods
Content
What does the nursing science basis mean in gerontological nursing?
What are health sciences and their connections to gerontological nursing?
What is nursing science and what does it focus on?
How can nursing theories be used in health promotion of elderly people and in gerontological nursing?
What are the principles in nursing care?
What are the basic nursing methods in gerontological nursing work?
What is ergonomics and why is it important?
How to implement ergomical patient transfer?
What is rehabilitation work and how to implement it?
Evaluation
Assessment criteria level 3: entry-level know-how and skills
Students can
a. use professional vocabulary systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. work together with customers, users and target groups.
e. use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.
f. work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.
Course material
Osoitetaan opintojakson osien alkaessa
Study forms and methods
Työviikkopohjainen oppimisväylä:
Toteutetaan työjärjestyksen mukaisesti. Sisältää luennot sekä harjoitukset. Gerontologinen hoitotyö koostuu orientoivasta ja keskustelevasta aloitusluennosta sekä work shopista (pakollinen läsnäolo) ja on ajoitettu keväälle 2021. Hoitotaidot koostuu luennoista sekä harjoituksista (läsnäolo pakollinen) sekä ergonomian harjoituksista (pakollinen läsnäolo), ja on ajoitettu syksylle 2020.
Työhön integroitu ja nopeuttava oppimisväylä:
Opiskelija valitsee opintojakson aikaisemmassa vaiheessa opintoja tai hänellä on koulutusta ja työkokemusta hoitotyön perustaidoista sekä suoritettuna terveys- tai hoitotieteen opintoja yliopistossa, suoritettuna voimassa oleva Potilassiirtojen Ergonomia-kortti
Student workload
1 op= 27 tuntia opiskelijan työtä
Further information
Gerontologinen hoitotyö, opettaja Merja Laitoniemi
Hoitotaidot, opettaja Riitta Tenkanen-Salmela
Ergonomia, opettaja Satu Sällilä
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment methods and criteria
Opintojakson osien arvioitavat kohteet, menetelmät ja perusteet esitetään opintojakson osien alkaessa. Aktiivinen osallistuminen lähiopetukseen sekä annettujen tehtävien suorittaminen hyväksytysti.Palaute annetaan ryhmäpalautteena.
Qualifications
Basis in elderly care 20 ECTS credits
Basis of physiology 5 ECTS credits
Health exercise and bases of exercise gerontology 5 ECTS credits