Basics of clinical nursing (5 cr)

Objective

Client orientation
• you value the patient’s/family or community member’s expertise concerning their own life
• you are able to utilize the clients’ experiential knowledge in the care of their health and treatment of illness

Clinical nursing
• you are able to use various methods in the psychosocial support of a patient
• you are able to respond to the need of care by using proper nursing methods and document them applying structurally coherent classification
• you are able to evaluate the patient’s need of care based on appropriate clinical and physiological assessment, prioritize the needs, and document them in compliance with structurally coherent classification
• you understand the principles of and are able to explain the significance of infection control
• you are able to administer and evaluate safe pharmacological treatment
• you are able to assess the need for emergency care

Content

Client orientation
• concepts of client and patient
• special features of client status in health care
• individual, family, and community as client
• significance of the client’ own interpretation of their experience
• influence of the client’s history, habits and overall life situation on the care
• the client’s personal, situational, and health related factors

Clinical nursing
• social support of a patient
• psycho-social methods
• nursing interventions (e.g. FinCC) and national standardized electronic nursing documentation
• national and international recommendations and guidelines in the treatment of various disease groups
• infection prevention
• aseptic technique
• microbiology
• pharmagological treatment
• pharmacology and pharmacy
• basic life support

Evaluation

Assessment criteria level 3, competence during the completion phase.

You know how to:
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way
b. evaluate information sources critically
e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices

Course material

Pharmagological treatment; Study material reported to the Moodle learning platform

Study forms and methods

Scheduled track:
Pharmagological treatment theory studies -course of the module includes lectures, homeworks, exercises and online exam
Pharmagological treatment medication studies -course of the module includes lectures, homeworks, exercises and online exam

Independent track:
Pharmagological treatment theory and medication studies; Possibility of exams at work/placement online under the control of a superior/supervisor

RDI and work-related cooperation

Ei sisälly tähän opintojaksoon.

Timing of exams and assignments

Pharmagological treatment studies; Possibility of resits on general exam days or at work/placement online under the control of a superior/supervisor

International cooperation

Not available

Student workload

Theory studies, Pharmagological treatment, Pharmacology and Pharmacy 1 cr

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pharmagological treatment -course of the module result has been rejected if the result in theory exam is: less than 50% of the answers are correct or all the drug calculation tasks are not correct

Further information

Ole läsnä opintojakson ensimmäisellä kontaktitunnilla.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Oppimistehtävät ja tentti ilmoitetusta materiaalista.

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Opiskelija ei ole saavuttanut opintojakson tavoitteita, tai jättää suorituksen kesken.
Lääkehoidon osalta arviointi hyväksytty/hylätty. Lääkehoidon opintojakso on hylätty, mikäli teoriatentin tulos on, että alle 50 % vastauksistasi on oikein tai kaikki lääkelaskut eivät ole oikein.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

Osaat käyttää johdonmukaisesti kliinisen hoitotyön käsitteitä.
Osaat etsiä tietoa kliiniseen hoitotyöhön alan keskeisistä tiedonlähteistä.
Osaat käyttää keskeisiä kliinisessä hoitotyössä käytettäviä malleja, menetelmiä, ohjelmistoja.

Qualifications

No prerequisites
All courses in the module are recommended to be attended during the same period of time.