Preventive NursingLaajuus (8 op)

Osaamistavoitteet

The students get familiar with the national and international programmes and recommendations governing health promotion, their focal areas, health promotion settings, strategies and levels. They can identify the implementers and service providers of health promotion. The students recognize the factors for inequalities in population health and measures for reducing health inequalities. They understand the significance of preventive work and lifestyle counseling for the prevention of common diseases. They can plan, implement and evaluate health education for individuals or groups base on empowerment. They understand, in particular, the significance of nutrition and health-promoting physical activity, as well as related counseling, for health promotion. They understand the significance of preventive work for the wellbeing of the population and can identify different implementers and service providers of health promotion both in the public and the private sector. They are able to view health and wellbeing based on empowerment and to support the health of individuals and groups. They recognize and analyze the health promotion needs of individual and groups and plan, implement and evaluate a health education project or initiative related to the health promotion needs.

Sisältö

•the concepts of health and health promotion
•National and international strategies, programmes and recommendations governing health promotion
•the value basis and frame of reference of health promotion
•the determinants of health and health inequalities
•the planning, implementation and evaluation of health education
•stage model of health behaviour change and empowering counseling at individual and collective level
•Health counseling
•Nutrition and physical activity in health promotion context.
•Health promotion project in cooperation with various working life partners.

Esitietovaatimukset

Degree students:
Basic nursing theory and practice
Other/exchange students:
similar studies accepted by course teacher

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1)

Pass (S): The student is familiar with the national knowledge base of health promotion and is able to draw on it to independently complete various learning assignments. He/she recognizes factors for inequalities in population health and measures for reducing health inequalities. He/she shows initiative in acquiring evidence-based information on health promotion and assesses it critically. He/she is able to use and present information in communication and interactive situations of his/her team clearly and in a structured, instructive and constructive manner. The student is able to solve problems in health promotion, and he/she is able to draw on them in new situations. The student demonstrate how his/her skills that are improving during the course are linked to the competence requirements of nursing, and he/she is able to perceive how he/she should develop his/her health promotion skills from the perspective of nursing practice development in the future. The student assumes responsibility for essential health promotion assignments and projects of his/her team and shows initiative.
Fail (0) : The student does not have the basic knowledge of health promotion. He/she is not competent in independent information acquisition, as well as learning and developing his/her learning techniques. The student finds coping with more demanding preventive nursing practice assignments a challenge. The student does not act responsibility for health promotion assignments and projects assigned to him/her . The student fails to complete health promotion project.