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Family and Community Nursing Care (6 cr)

Code: KTS1357-3003

General information


Enrollment

01.07.2022 - 04.09.2022

Timing

15.08.2022 - 25.09.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Faculty of Health Care and Social Services (LAB)

Campus

Lappeenranta Campus

Teaching languages

  • English

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Teija Maukonen
  • Heidi Väisänen

Scheduling groups

  • Tentti (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Info (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Seminaari (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Luennot (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Simulaatio R 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Simulaatio R 2 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Harjoitus (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • HLPREX22S
  • HLPRNURSE20S

Small groups

  • Tentti
  • Info
  • Seminaari
  • Luennot
  • Simulaatio R 1
  • Simulaatio R 2
  • Harjoitus

Learning outcomes

After this course, student

Knows the risk factors for people with diseases and uses a variety of health promotion and guidance techniques to motivate clients to promote health and combat infectious diseases, and is familiar with the national vaccination program and traveler health counseling.

Implementation and methods of teaching

Lectures
Practices
Simulations
Exam

Timing and attendance

Lectures 75%
Practices and simulations 100%

Learning material and recommended literature

Materials informed in Moodle

Exam retakes

Individual exam in written including the course
General re-examination dates

Learning environment

LAB University of Applied Sciences Lappeenranta campus
Moodle

Student time use and work load

6 ects
163 h students' work

Contents

After passing this course the student is able to:
• assist in childbirth outside the maternity hospital
• identify the child's age-related stages of development including puberty
• use children and adolescent nursing methods and procedures in accordance with the specific needs of the family
• carry out children and adolescent pharmaco- and fluid therapy safely and apply pain treatment methods effectively
• prepare children and their family for the most common treatments and examinations
• assess child’s condition, report the findings and carry out evidence-based nursing in collaboration with the family and other professionals
• recognize the need for child protection t.eg in cases of child abuse
• promote sexual health individually, including contraception
• carry out nursing in basic health care services including promotion and treatment of public diseases and long-term diseases
• assess the need for treatment of clients
• motivate clients in promoting health and preventing infectious diseases
• carry out national vaccination program and traveller’s health counseling

Additional information for students: previous knowledge etc.

Basic studies
Professional studies:
- Nursing Care for Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- First Aid 2 and Disaster Training
- Surgical and Preoperative Nursing
- Emergency Nursing Care

Assessment scale

1-5

Assessment criteria: level 1 (assessment scale 1–5)

The student
- describes only partially the principles and concepts of family and community nursing
- rarely presents justified action models of family and community nursing
- doesn't show professional thinking

Assessment criteria: level 3 (assessment scale 1–5)

The student
- is able to describe main principles and concepts of family and community nursing
- presents some action models of family and community nursing
- is able to apply previous theoretical basis to some extent

Assessment criteria: level 5 (assessment scale 1–5)

The student
- is able to clearly describe principles and concepts of family and community nursing
- presents justified action models of family and community nursing
- is able to apply critically and systematically previous theoretical knowledge of nursing