Opetussuunnitelmat

Objective

Purpose of the course
After this course you are able to apply critical thinking skills and make independent and evidence based decisions as a nursing professional under supervision in multicultural team. You are able to evaluate the client`s and family´s need for care, perform nursing process and interventions and provide evidence-based care. You apply sustainable development know-how and innovation and project methods as part of professional practice.

Competences
Clinical competence
Evidence based nursing and decision making competence
Patient safety and quality assurance competence
Internationalisation and communications competence
Entrepreneurship, innovation and working community competence

Learning outcomes
You are able to apply critical thinking skills under supervision.
You are able to make evidence based decisions under supervision responsibly in multiprofessional team.
You are able to evaluate the patient’s need for care and perform relevant nursing interventions following nursing process using variety of communication channels.
You ensure patient safety in clinical care and are able to assess quality of care.
Student deepens the skills in encountering the patient and their families as active participant in their cultural context.
You have basic skills in guiding students and team leadership.

Content

Evaluating the need and urgency for care and making necessary conclusions.
Follow-up care, treatment and guidance.
Evidence based practice in care following nursing process.
Patient safety and assessing the quality of care.
Guidance of health services, group and individual counseling. Ethical decision-making.
Multiprofessional team work and consultation of other professionals.
Student masters medical calculations.
Sustainable know how 1 ects

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

You have wide knowledge of the development of your area of expertise, as well as a critical understanding and application of theories and policies in the field. You are able to create personal knowledge based on the international and latest knowledge base of the course. You can evaluate it critically and show creative thinking. You are able to use information and communication technology in a creative way to acquire, modify, produce and transmit information in your field.
You aim to develop your own field with your own skills and can present them in presentations that are relevant to working life. You can evaluate own skills and acquired skills in a comprehensive, critical and developmental way. You are able to make independent evidence-based decisions at different stages of the care path with the support of your supervisor. You are able to think in entrepreneurial manner and have internalized problem-solving skills appropriate to ethical situations. You have the ability to evaluate the knowledge base of your area of expertise and your own activities and to develop them critically and creatively. You master the essential clinical interventions of your area of expertise by utilizing and applying technology in nursing with support of your supervisor.
You are able to work skillfully, client-oriented and taking into account diverse cultural differences in multidisciplinary and possibly multicultural working groups.

Qualifications

You master the basics, key concepts, and methods of social and health customer relationships and the business environment. You master the goals, basics, and methods of nursing and client-centered nursing. You can use evidence-based knowledge in nursing decision making. You master the methods of assessing the patient's clinical examination and need for care. You have completed your pharmacology and medical studies as well as your basic studies and related training before the start of the course. You have at least 140 ECTS credits before you start this course (one 4 week internship may be missing).

Further information

The language skills of each student affect to the selection of the area of expertise.