7.2.1 EF20 PROFESSIONAL BASIC STUDIES 110 cr
 
7.2.1.1 EF200 NURSING CLIENT AND ENVIRONMENT 10 cr
Objectives The students strengthen and clarify their values, attitudes and moral responsibilities in relation to person, nature and environment.

They are able to encounter the individual in nursing as a biological, conscious and spiritual being as well as in relation to his or her own outlook on life.

They are able to analyse the environment as a phenomenon, perceive its significance in nursing, and are willing to act in order to develop and preserve an environment which promotes health.
 
EF2010 Person as a holistic being 1 cr
Contents Orientation to the holistic outlook on life
 
EF2014 Person as a biological being 4 cr
 
EF2040 Person as a conscious being 2 cr
Contents Psychosocial development
Health psychology
Clinical psychology
 
EF2003 Person as a situational being 1 cr
Contents Person in relation to himself/herself and his/her reality
Person in a group and in a community
 
EF2004 Person as a spiritual being 1 cr
Contents Spiritual and religious dimensions of a human being
Pastoral care
 
EF2081 Environment in nursing 1 cr
Contents Dimensions of environment
Good nursing environment
Clinical studies
 
7.2.1.2 EF210 HEALTH AS A VALUE AND A PROCESS 27 cr
Objectives The students are able to analyse health as a phenomenon, a value and a subjective experience.

They are capable of identifying and defining the health status of an individual, a family or a community as well as various dysfunctionally engendered changes in individuals and their environment.

They are able to identify economic and political factors related to health in different cultures and environments and will work to improve them.

They are able to support individuals, families and the community in finding resources for health promotion in various phases of life.
 
EF2110 Health as a value and a aubjective experience 1 cr
Contents Health as a value
Definitions of health
Health of an individual and a community
 
EF2120 Health as a status 3 cr


Contents Health as a value, health as a phenomenon and health as a status in different developmental phases of an individual or a family
Clinical studies
 
EF2130 Health as a process 10 cr
Contents Basics of public health science, nutrition and dietetics, pathology, gerontology and geriatrics
Clinical pharmacology, internal medicine, surgery and anaesthesiology
Medical knowledge based on psychiatry, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology
Separate issues in medicine according to the chosen intensive study path
 
EF2150 Health promotion 13 cr
Contents Environmental health care
Protection of environment and health
Health education
Rehabilitation
Health guidance and health promotion of individuals and groups
 
7.2.1.3 EF 220 NURSING IN ACTION 43 cr
Objectives The students internalise the fundamental values and scientific foundations of nursing.

They appreciate and are able to recognise the values that underlie the choices made by nursing clients.

They develop their self-knowledge and professional growth so as to be capable of genuine interaction with different people in varied cultures as well as multiprofessional co-operation.
They are able to recognise and prioritise the need for help of an individual, a family and the community during various life changes.

They are able to make independent decisions in nursing together with the patients or the clients and their significant others as well as to draw up a nursing care plan, implement and assess it and document the care with others involved in it.

They are able to participate together with other professional groups in the planning and management of health care services.

They are able to act effectively and economically and to improve nursing quality. They are also familiar with the meaning of entrepreneurship in health care and social welfare services.

They are able to utilise information technology in their work.
 
EF2210 Introduction to the philosophical and theoretical foundations of nursing 2 cr
Contents History of nursing
Values fundamental in nursing
Central concepts of nursing
Nursing as a profession
 
EF2250 Interaction in nursing 2 cr
Contents Interaction as a concept and a phenomenon in nursing
Professional interaction and analysis of professional growth
Clinical studies
 
EF2240 Nursing process 2 cr
Contents Nursing process as an approach and as a method
The Roy Adaptation Theory as a framework
Professional decision making
Nursing care plan
Documentation and teleinformatics in nursing
Clinical studies
 
EF2271 Primary nursing in action 1 cr
Contents Primary nursing as a philosophy
Accountability of the nurse and the implementation of primary nursing
Clinical studies
 
EF2291 Community nursing in action 1 cr
Contents Central concepts of community nursing care
Social and health services
Population responsibility and community care
 
EF2230 Nursing therapeutics 29 cr
Contents Definition of nursing therapeutics
Nursing therapeutics in:
- acute nursing
- perioperative nursing
- medical-surgical nursing
- home nursing
- paediatric nursing
- gynaecological nursing
- psychiatric nursing
- geriatric nursing
Clinical studies
 
EF2310 Transitions in nursing 4 cr
Contents Developmental transitions: infancy, childhood, adolescence,
adulthood, parenthood, old age
Situational transitions: death and dying
Organisational transitions: patient to convalescent
Clinical studies
 
EF2350 Entrepreneurship in nursing 2 cr
Contents The meaning of entrepreneurship
From a business idea to an enterprise
 
7.2.1.4 EF250 PROFESSIONAL INTENSIVE STUDIES 20 cr
The professional intensive studies (20 cr) in nursing orientation consist of the philosophical and theoretical foundations of nursing, ethical issues and decision making, special issues of nursing expertise as well as multiculturalism. Also the areas of technology, multiprofessional work and networking, self-management, quality management, change, research and development as well as issues concerning the future of nursing are included in the professional intensive studies.

The studies are built on a thematic integration of contents with clinical studies. The minimum length of clinical studies in professional intensive studies is 10 credits. In addition to the intensive studies there are some optional study paths. The professional intensive studies will be completed during the sixth and seventh terms with 10 cr each term.

Objectives The students develop their professional competence and themselves as well as critical approach to nursing and its development.

They do their own research work and show the mastery of its content in the maturity test.

They have an extensive knowledge of nursing so that they will be able to work independently as well as in multiprofessional teams in the different environments of nursing and health care
 
EF2320 Nursing in different cultures 3 cr
Contents Encountering different cultures in nursing
Clinical studies
 
EF2330 Philosophical and scientific foundations of nursing science 2 cr
Contents Different approaches in nursing science
 
EF2340 Management and leadership in nursing 5 cr
Contents The strategic and operative planning and management in health care
Quality management in nursing
Leadership in a change
Basics of health economics
Economical evaluation
Clinical studies
 
7.2.1.5 EF2500 Optional study paths of professional intensive studies 10 cr
 
EF2501 Critical care nursing
Objectives The students are able to plan, implement and evaluate the nursing of people of different ages and cultures in acute changes of health in different environments.

They immediately notices changes in the condition of the patient, is able to assess priorities and takes responsibility for professional nursing interventions.

They are able to help the patient and his/her significant others in crisis.

They are able to deal with his/her own reactions to crisis situations.

They aware of how health care is guaranteed in disaster situations nationally and internationally.

Contents The nursing environment of the critically ill
The assessment of critically ill
The nursing interventions of the critically ill
Quality assessment and improvement in critical care nursing
Health care in disaster situations
Co-operation with different rescue-organisations and working life
 
EF2503 Rahabilitative nursing care
Objectives The students are able to perceive the significance rehabilitative nursing care has in society.

They internalise philosophical foundations and cultural influences in rehabilitative nursing care.

They are able to identify and assess the client’s own recources in different transitions.

They are able to provide support for the client and his/her family during their individual rehabilitation process in different environments.

They internalise the significance of rehabilitative nursing care also in palliative care.

They are able to develop his/her professional competence in rehabilitation.

They are able to act as a nursing expert in multiprofessional communities.

Contents Philosophical and ethical foundations, cultural factors
Key concepts
Rehabilitation services and support in society
Multidisciplinary co-operation
Nurse’s expertise in rehabilitation
Nursing therapeutics in rehabilitation
Home care
Palliative care nursing
 
EF2504 Mental health nursing
Objectives The students deepens his/her knowledge in the branch of mental health nursing in individual, group and community care.

They become conscious as a specialist in development of own professional and co-operation skills in the branch of mental health or substance abuse.

Contents Special knowledge of human being in biological, conscious and situational level deepening concept of mental health
Historical, ethical and cultural starting points in mental health nursing
Supportive nursing care which aims are psychic integrity and coping in every day life
Nursing interventions and approaches in individual, group and community care
Supervision as supportive and developing method of self-knowledge and professional skills
Case management in rehabilitative nursing

 
EF2505 Family nursing
Objectives The students advance his/her understanding about the family from different theoretical angles.

They advance their comprehension of the factors affecting the health of the family.

They studies and analyses his/her experiences about the family as a phenomenon and client in nursing.

They develop their skills and abilities in observing family dynamics and culture.

They deepen their competence in nursing when interacting with the family in different nursing environments.

They identify the resources of the family and supports the family.


Contents Concept definitions (family, family nursing)
The domain of family nursing, purpose of family nursing, the roles and the functions in the family
Different approaches and theories of the family, family cultures
Family as a system, interaction in the family, family dynamics
The health of the family and the factors influencing the health
The resources of the family and health promotion
Transitions and crisis in the family
Nursing interventions in family nursing
Family nursing research (evidence-based nursing)
 
EF2506 Perioperative nursing
Objectives The students internalises the philosophical and scientific basis of perioperative nursing while taking care and supporting transitions of individuals belonging to different age groups and having different cultural backgrounds. Nursing therapeutics and performances of the student are based on scientific evidence of nursing science and related disciplines.

They are able to plan, implement and evaluate patient centred perioperative nursing care during the phases of perioperative process together with the patient, his/her family and multiprofessional team.

They are able to support the individual resources of his/her patient and are able to secure the patient’ s right to make decisions concerning his/her own nursing care.

They aware about environmental factors in perioperative care and is able to secure the safety of the patient. The student is able to deliver goal -oriented nursing care, he/she masters the care and knowledge in nursing and is able to make decisions with responsibility.

They conduct research- and development projects in co-operation with working life.

Contents Planned together with the students


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