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
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SHNK23Bachelor 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