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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
STNS22
Public 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.

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