Maternity and women´s nursing (4cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Objective

The purpose of the course:
You learn basic knowledge in women´s health and maternity care. By studying this course you will get competence to empower client and their family by promoting and counselling sexual and reproductive health.

Competences of the course:
Health promotion competence
Guidance and interaction skills and supporting self-care
Clinical competence

Learning outcomes:
After studying this course you know the basics in gynecological illnesses, treatments and nursing methods in women´s health. You have basic knowledge in maternity care during physiological pregnancy, labor and postpartum time.
You understand and are able to justify the meaning of empowering approach in planning, implementing and evaluating the care of women and their families.
You are able to apply sexual and reproductive health examination and nursing care and apply empowering methods in care of women and their family.

Content

You learn basic knowledge in women´s health and maternity care. In this Study Course, you will familiarize yourself with the following themes

The basics of Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion at Different Life Stages in Women and the Family
Multi-professional co-operation in nursing processes in women´s health and maternity care
Empowering approach in co-operation with women and their families
The basics of gynecological illnesses and the basics of their monitoring and nursing interventions
The main evidence-based nursing interventions and examinations in women´s health and assenting in examinations
Physiological pregnancy, labor and postpartum time
The main evidence-based nursing interventions and examinations in maternity nursing
Care of unplanned out-of-hospital childbirth
Neonatal basic care
Basics of breastfeeding guidance

Materials

Botha Elina ja Ryttyläinen-Korhonen Katri. 2023. Naisen hoitotyö. Sanoma Pro.
Naistentaudit ja synnytykset. 2019. Toim. J.Tapanainen, & O.Heikinheimo & K. Mäkikallio Helsinki: Duodecim. E-kirja, Oppiportti.(soveltuvin osin).
Seksuaali- ja lisääntymisterveyteen liittyvät keskeiset Hoitotyön suositukset ja Käypä hoito –suositukset

Teaching methods

In this course, you study the basics of women's and maternity care and also gynecology. You participate as an active learner in contact teaching. Contact teaching uses different teaching methods and they require you to prepare for lectures as described in the Moodle learning environment. During the study period, you complete the two online tests of contraception and breastfeeding guidance. You demonstrate your learning of gynecology with a multiple-choice exam and your learning of women's and maternity care with a group exam.

Exam schedules

Gynecology theory exam
Network tests
Group exam on women and maternity care

International connections

4 ects, 108 h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Sufficient 1

You are able to list the most important gynecological illnesses, their monitoring and treatment.and You know the course of physiological pregnancy, labor and postpartum time.
You are able to name main examinations and nursing interventions in women´s health and maternity nursing.
You are able to list the principles of promoting sexual and reproductive health in women and the family.
You can describe parts of empowering process thinking in planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based nursing for woman and family.
You demonstrate the ability to perform examination and nursing care methods of sexual and reproductive health in a simulation situation.
You demonstrate the ability to use key empowering methods in family nursing in a simulation situation.

Satisfactory 2

You are able to describe the most important gynecological illnesses, their monitoring and treatment. You are able to describe the course of physiological pregnancy, labor and postpartum time.
You are able to describe main examinations and nursing interventions in women´s health and maternity nursing.
You are able to describe the principles of promoting sexual and reproductive health in women and the family.
You can describe empowering process thinking in planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based nursing for woman and family.
You demonstrate the ability to perform examination and nursing care methods of sexual and reproductive health in a simulation situation.
You demonstrate the ability to use key empowering methods in family nursing in a simulation situation.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good 3

You are able to describe the most important gynecological illnesses, their monitoring and treatment. You are able to describe course of physiological pregnancy, labor and postpartum time.
You are able to describe main examinations and nursing interventions in women´s health and maternity nursing.
You are able to describe the principles of promoting sexual and reproductive health in women and the family.
You are able to demonstrate the empowering process thinking in planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based nursing for woman and family.
You demonstrate the ability to perform examination and nursing care methods of sexual and reproductive health in a simulation situation.
You demonstrate the ability to use key empowering methods in family nursing in a simulation situation.

Very Good 4
You are able to describe the most important gynecological illnesses and partly justify their monitoring and treatment. You are able to demonstrate the course of physiological pregnancy, labor and postpartum time.
You are able to describe and partly justify the main examinations and nursing interventions in women´s health and maternity nursing.
You are able to justify the principles of promoting sexual and reproductive health in women and the family.
You are able to justify in some parts of empowering process thinking in planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based nursing for woman and family.
You demonstrate the ability to perform examination and nursing care methods of sexual and reproductive health in a simulation situation.
You demonstrate the ability to use key empowering methods in family nursing in a simulation situation.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5

You are able to describe the most important gynecological illnesses and justify their monitoring and treatment. You are able to demonstrate the course of physiological pregnancy, labor and postpartum time.
You are able to describe and justify the main examinations and nursing interventions in women´s health and maternity nursing.
You are able to justify the principles of promoting sexual and reproductive health in women and the family.
You are able to justify the empowering process thinking in planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based nursing for woman and family.
You demonstrate the ability to perform examination and nursing care methods of sexual and reproductive health in a simulation situation.
You demonstrate the ability to use key empowering methods in family nursing in a simulation situation.

Qualifications

You master the methods of health promotion, medical nursing, mental health management.

You master the contents of anatomy and physiology as well as of pharmacology and medicine related to the above mentioned nursing studies.

You know the basics of evidence-based decision making.

Further information

During the course, assessment is carried out on the principle of continuous feedback. Self-assessment and peer review also play a key role. Assessment is based on the course objectives and assessment criteria.