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Health Promotion and Guidance Skills in Nursing (4cr)

Course unit code: SH10152

General information


Credits
4 cr
Teaching language
Finnish
Responsible person
Henna Kakkonen, Vastuuopettaja
Hanne Timonen, Vastuuopettaja

Objective

You can define concepts related to health promotion, health promotion and preventive work, and risk and protective factors.
You know the guidance methods for health promotion and their application based on researched information.
You can take into account who you are speaking to and in what situation. You can communicate in an understandable and convincing way in various interaction situations in study and working life.

Content

Concepts of well-being, health and functional capacity and related risk and protective factors
Guide clients in health promotion in accordance with recommendations
Promotative and preventive work and their use at different levels of social and health care
Method for taking up one's worries and Motivational Discussion method and their application
Interaction skills
Planning and implementing verbal presentation
Analyzing one's own communication and providing peer feedback

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