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Client-oriented Gerontological Nursing (3 cr)

Code: STH6044-STA19M8

General information


Timing
01.08.2019 - 31.12.2019
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
10 - 30
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing
Teachers
Hanish Bhurtun
Jonna Puustinen
Course
STH6044

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After studying this course student
- understands health promotion and functional capacity and its importance among older people
- understands the values and ethical principles in Gerontological Nursing
- understands the basics of research and technology in ageing, the link between health and functional capacity and nursing of the physically challenged
- understands the importance of multi cultural and multi disciplinary nursing in ageing

Content

Multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and caring of the physically challenged among older people as well as aging changes. Medication for the elderly, pain and geriatric evaluation and rehabilitation. Health and functional capacities, illnesses of the aged, memory disorders, fragility and decrepity syndrome. Gerontological research, population ageing, population pyramid, home nursing, loneliness, memory life-process and brain ageing, nutrition, chronic wound care and special issues in gerontological nursing and terminal care. Values and attitudes towards ageing and the environment. Pre-home visits. Ageing of the population and its social and economic consequences. Biological ageing theories, physical activity and ageing, illness diseases of elderly people, prevention, cure, and rehabilitation of these diseases.

Materials

http://www.who.int/ageing/publications/whd2012_global_brief/en/Gerontological Nursing: Competencies For Care3rd Edition.Publisher:Jones & Bartlett Learning; 3 edition (March 15, 2013)Lecture materials

Student workload

Lectures & Problem Based Learning (PBL) - 18 hours of contact classesGroup work - 26hIndependent study- 40hSimulation day - 8h

Qualifications

All compulsory courses in semester 1, 2 and 3 should have been completed.

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