Study Guide

Objective

You plan, implement and evaluate public health nursing work that maintains and rehabilitates the health and ability to work of the working age, workplace and community.
You can describe the principles of good occupational health care practice.
You assess the effects of work, work communities and environments on health.
You plan, implement and evaluate the necessary proposals for action to promote the health of your clients (individual, family, group, workplace, work or other community).
You work in multidisciplinary collaborations in multidisciplinary networks.

You know how to plan, implement and evaluate the work of nurses that strengthens the health and functional capacity of the elderly.
You can assess the risk factors that increase the need for services related to the health, living conditions and life situation of an elderly person.
You can direct to available services.
Is able to co-operate with the elderly person and their relatives / relatives and guide in decision-making related to the promotion of the health of the elderly person and the security of a dignified life.
Can implement health and medical care at home.

Content

Key legislation and guidelines governing occupational health care and occupational safety, occupational health care reimbursement practices.
Occupational health care service system and its connections with various stakeholders.
Principles of good occupational health care practice.
Working age health examinations, information, counseling and guidance.
Maintaining, promoting and monitoring health, work and functional capacity.
Planning, implementation and monitoring of occupational health co-operation based on workplace surveys.
Assessment and monitoring of work and functional capacity, early support and rehabilitative activities.
Assessment of health conditions; identification of resource factors, health exposures of work environments and communities, risk and stress factors.
Major occupational diseases and occupational diseases.
Occupational health and safety.
Promoting the health of working life, workplaces, work environments and communities and monitoring well-being at work in cooperation with different actors.
Occupational health care / outpatient clinic.
Marketing and sales of occupational health services.
Maintaining, promoting and monitoring the ability of the unemployed to work and function.

You get acquainted into the legislation, recommendations and various national guidelines regarding the care of the elderly and their relatives.
You know the special features of an elderly person's health counseling, health examinations and rehabilitative work approach and related counseling.
You know how to implement health promotion that supports resources and functional capacity, as well as inclusive health in a variety of operating environments.
You will use a variety of wellness technologies and digitalization to promote and interact with the health of older people.
You know the partners and methods of cooperating in customer-oriented healthcare work for the elderly. You will be able to design innovative health promotion interventions for the elderly.

Materials

The course material is included in the course

Teaching methods

The implementation of the course takes place as face-to-face teaching.
Various teaching methods are used in teaching.

Exam schedules

The exam for the course will take place at a separately announced time at the end of the course. The exam can be repeated two (2) times in accordance with the degree regulations.

Completion alternatives

No optional performance options.

Student workload

5 credits correspond to 135 hours of the student's work

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Successful completion of the course requires participation in contact teaching, completion of independent and group assignments, and passing the exam.

The course includes a numerically assessed exam, which is worth 80% of the total grade for the course. The course assignments are assessed and their weight is 20% of the total grade.

Course assignments must be returned by the end of the course or by the end of the following semester at the latest. Otherwise, the student must complete the entire course again.