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Pain and Pain Management (5 cr)

Code: SP10005-3007

General information


Enrollment

20.11.2023 - 28.01.2024

Timing

01.02.2024 - 17.05.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Unit

Open UAS

Campus

Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

10 - 80

Degree programmes

  • Open University of Applied Sciences Studies
  • Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Noora Silvennoinen

Teacher in charge

Noora Silvennoinen

Scheduling groups

  • Avoimen opiskelijat (Size: 15. Open UAS: 15.)
  • Tutkinto-opiskelijat (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • TOP23_24
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2023-2024
  • KAKK24
    Karelia, Open UAS, All, Spring, 2024

Small groups

  • Open UAS students
  • Degree students

Objective

Learning Outcomes;
At the end of the module, you are able to:
- encounter a pain patient in healthcare and recognize the importance of interaction
- to guide different means to manage pain beside the usual care
- describe the basics on pain physiology and how pain is experienced.

Content

- Significance of interaction and encounter in pain management
- Drug free pain management beside medicine care and usual care
- The definition of pain ja how pain is experienced
- Biopsychosocial framework
- how pain becomes chronic and chronic pain management.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected