Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The student is able to
- apply and assess good practices related to team participation and management in a shift
- assess their own activities and the actions of the work community and team from the perspectives of quality, cost-effectiveness and sustainable development
- actively support goal-oriented work, community well-being and team spirit through their own communication
- motivate and guide members of their work community and give feedback
- describe their and the team’s role in building the organisation's brand and reputation and creating the customer service experience
- identify and meet the interaction-related needs of a seriously ill or palliative care patient and their significant others
- build a care relationship with a seriously ill and palliative care patients and their significant others
- support and guide a patient who is seriously ill or in palliative care and their family and friends with rehabilitation and coping, making use of multiprofessional cooperation if necessary
- recognise the need for palliative and terminal care
- plan, implement and evaluate palliative care and terminal care in accordance with the anticipated care plan for the end of life
- implement and assess the symptoms and pain treatment of a patient in palliative care
- perform well in nursing environment using Finnish language
- work comfortably in nursing environment using Finnish language

Content

Theme: Nursing of seriously ill patients, quality of work community activities

LbD assignment during placement: Reviewing the quality and costs of operations using different indicators. The results are reported at the practice placement.

Teaching methods

Clinical practice 10 ECTS

Suitable practice environments

All healthcare and social welfare units treating terminally ill patients, such as

inpatient wards at health centres
hospital wards (e.g. lung diseases, neurology, internal medicine and endocrinology, cardiac wards, infection wards, respiratory paralysis units, psychiatry, cancer and haematological diseases, including appropriate paediatric wards)
Home care units
Suitable crisis management units
round-the-clock assisted living units, i.e. intensified assisted living units, old people's homes and assisted living facilities
geriatric outpatient clinics, memory clinics
other outpatient clinics related to the treatment of terminally ill patients
Palliative and hospice care units, such as

Regional home hospitals and their support departments
palliative wards, hospice wards and hospices
palliative outpatient clinics
Day hospitals
A placement environment that supports professional competence chosen by the student

Students workload

Clinical practice 10 ECTS 10 x 27 = 270h
LbD- assignment

Further information for students

Previous studies
Modules 1-6 theory studies mainly completed
Medication calculations exam passed

Medication calculations independent working space in Canvas:
https://canvas.laurea.fi/enroll/8TFRR6

Grading scale

Approved/Failed

Evaluation methods and criteria

Professional development in practice :
-Approved/Failed/Re-do