Promoting the Health of the Working-Age Population and Work Communities (3 cr)
Code: ST10005-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.10.2024 - 31.10.2024
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 28.04.2025 - 30.05.2025
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 3 cr
- Local portion
- 3 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Terveydenhoitajakoulutus (ST)
- Campus
- Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 20 - 40
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing
- Teachers
- Hanne Timonen
- Sini Puustinen
- Teacher in charge
- Hanne Timonen
- Groups
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STNS22Public Health Nurse, Full-time Studies, Fall, 2022
- Course
- ST10005
Evaluation scale
H-5
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.
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.
Location and time
Opintojakso toteutuu ilmoitetun ajanjakson puitteissa
Materials
Opintojakso sisältää materiaalit (Moodle)
Teaching methods
The course includes contact teaching, participation in which is a prerequisite for completing the course. The course includes individual, pair and group assignments.
Exam schedules
There is an exam at the end of the course with two (2) retake opportunities.
Completion alternatives
No optional performance options.
Student workload
Opintojakson laajuus on 3 opintopistettä, joka vastaa 81 tuntia opiskelijan työpanosta.
Opintojakso sisältää lähiopetusta, tehtäviä ja tentin.