Client-oriented Gerontological Nursing (3 cr)
Code: STH6044-STB20L2
General information
Timing
01.01.2020 - 31.05.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
1 - 1
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing
Groups
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STHNK18Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Full-time Studies, Spring, 2018
Objective
After studying this course student
- understands health promotion and functional capacity and its importance among older people
- understands the values and ethical principles in Gerontological Nursing
- understands the basics of research and technology in ageing, the link between health and functional capacity and nursing of the physically challenged
- understands the importance of multi cultural and multi disciplinary nursing in ageing
Content
Multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and caring of the physically challenged among older people as well as aging changes. Medication for the elderly, pain and geriatric evaluation and rehabilitation. Health and functional capacities, illnesses of the aged, memory disorders, fragility and decrepity syndrome. Gerontological research, population ageing, population pyramid, home nursing, loneliness, memory life-process and brain ageing, nutrition, chronic wound care and special issues in gerontological nursing and terminal care. Values and attitudes towards ageing and the environment. Pre-home visits. Ageing of the population and its social and economic consequences. Biological ageing theories, physical activity and ageing, illness diseases of elderly people, prevention, cure, and rehabilitation of these diseases.
Materials
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Completion alternatives
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Student workload
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Further information
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Evaluation scale
H-5
Qualifications
All compulsory courses in semester 1, 2 and 3 should have been completed.