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Gerontological Nursing (4 cr)

Code: SH10030-3006

General information


Enrollment

01.10.2023 - 31.10.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 26.05.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

4 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Anu Kinnunen
  • Juha Pesonen
  • Mari Savolainen
  • Kirsi Tanskanen
  • Helena Ikonen

Teacher in charge

Anu Kinnunen

Scheduling groups

  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • SHNK23
    Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Full-time Studies, Spring, 2023

Small groups

  • Excercise Team 1
  • Excercise Team 2

Objective

- You understand the key values, ethical principles and starting points in gerontological nursing.
- You understand the meaning of home care and services, technology in ageing and the multiprofessional cooperation in gerontological nursing.
- You are able to assess, promote and support health, wellbeing and functional capacity of older people based on individual resources.
- You are able to plan and implement care and services supporting independency and autonomy of older people.
- You are able to identify vital challenges and special issues in gerontological nursing.

Content

- Key principles of nursing for the older people: values, ethical principles, key legislation and recommendations.
- Resources as a basis for promoting healthy and functional aging.
- Prerequisites for health and well-being (inc. nutrition, physical performance, safe medication, sexual health, prevention of falls, prevention of pressure ulcers) and key challenges (inc. loneliness, exclusion, abuse).
- Palliative care of patiet with memory disorder.
- Valuable end of life for the old people.
- Organizing the services for the older people, homeservices, service guidance, rehabilitative nursing, involvement of relatives in the care of the older people.
- Gerontechnology and digitalozation in care and everyday living support for older people.
- Functional assessment, main scanmethods and meters, care and service planning, care and service plan.

Evaluation scale

H-5