7.1 Degree Programme in Health Care and Social Welfare

a Espoo Institute, Health Care and Social Services Dean Katariina Raij Lehtimäentie 1 C 02770 Espoo Tel. 09-859 151, fax. 09-85915202 DEGREE PROGRAMME IN HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL WELFARE Professional development The nursing, physiotherapy and social work students are seen as active and goal-directed learners, looking for information about the outside world and themselves, observing the nursing, physiotherapy and social work environment selectively, and interpreting it. The students build up and analyse their ideas of the world of nursing, physiotherapy or social work guided by their expectations, experiences and the feed-back provided. They learn nursing care, physiotherapy or social work through their personal learning strategies, constructing and reworking their cognitive schemes. The students integrate different kinds of knowledge sought and encountered in varying learning environments of nursing, physiotherapy or social work developing their problem-solving skills and capacities to make decisions based on ethical values in their future work in hospitals or in health care. The studies require responsibility and full application. Successful studies demand commitment to regular work in accordance with the learning plan. The students plan, select, make decisions, and evaluate their learning in relation to the curriculum. Social interaction plays a central role in learning, co-operative learning being emphasised. The learning methods include lectures, seminars, team work, projects, portfolios and participation in providing nursing care, social support or physiotherapy services. The practical studies are conducted in social and health care organisations, voluntary work, and associated projects in Finland and abroad. The educators support and facilitate the student’s professional growth. Nursing is a central field of knowledge in the health care educational programme. It is based on knowledge of human beings, health, interaction between a person and the environment, and nursing activities. Human beings are seen as members of their families and societies in their own culture. Health is seen as a resource for the individual, family and community, available in spite of ill-health or handicap. Nursing helps the individual, family and community, both by promoting health, preventing ill-health and correcting, rehabilitating and supporting. Learning is supported by multidisciplinary knowledge. Physiotherapy is based on the knowledge of movement and function and it is carried out in interaction between a physiotherapist and an individual or a group of clients with a multiprofessional co-operation. Physiotherapists also provide services to clients, e.g. business and school systems, who can benefit from a physiotherapy consultation and professional advice. Guidance, instruction, therapeutic exercise, manual and physical therapy modalities are the means with what the client is supported and taught to reach the most optimal movement and functional capacity. These capacities are the strength resources for the client’s health and well-being. A client is an individual who plans and is in charge of his own life and is partly responsible of planning, taking part and evaluating his physiotherapy process. Physiotherapy practice is carried out in a broad range of inpatient, community-based settings as well as private practice settings. Social welfare education is based on the sociopedagogical approach to work with clients, which can be defined as a professional understanding of the effects of social structures and social interactions on the development and well-being of the individual. The subject of sociopedagogical work is the welfare of the individual, the family and the community with an understanding of the multicultural nature of society. An individual’s life situation is affected on one level by the social and societal environment, and on another by factors influencing identify development and individuality, which result from life experience. Correspondingly an individual’s awareness of his/her potential and limitations is determined by real life conditions as well as by a personal history of society as a whole. sociopedagogical work emphasizes the use of communication and creative methods in its effort to support and strengthen the client’s individuality and potential for self-determination. The students build up a scientific basis for nursing care, physiotherapy or social welfare work with its concepts at an early stage. Later in their studies, the students strengthen their theoretical command of nursing care, physiotherapy or social work and their ability to evaluate and develop their skills and abilities.

7.1.1   EF 1 BASIC STUDIES 20 cr

7.1.1.1   EF11 BASIS OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY COMPETENCE IN A CHANGING SOCIETY 10 cr

7.1.1.2   EF13 JOINT STUDIES IN SOCIAL WELFARE, HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION 10 cr

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