Care of Clients with Chronic Illnesses (10 cr)
Code: R0190-3033
General information
Enrollment
17.03.2020 - 31.03.2020
Timing
01.04.2020 - 16.08.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
10 op
Virtual proportion
3 op
Mode of delivery
70 % Contact teaching, 30 % Distance learning
Unit
Laurea Porvoo, sote
Campus
Laurea common
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
20 - 50
Degree programmes
- Sairaanhoitajakoulutus (SHV2), Laurea Tikkurila (Finnish)
- Sairaanhoitajakoulutus (SHP2), Laurea Porvoo (Finnish)
- Sairaanhoitajakoulutus (SHB2), Laurea Hyvinkää (Finnish)
- Sairaanhoitajakoulutus (SHG2), Laurea Otaniemi (Finnish)
- Sairaanhoitajakoulutus (SHF2), Laurea Lohja (Finnish)
Teachers
- Anne Makkonen
- Anna Sievers
Teacher in charge
Anne Makkonen
Learning outcomes
The Student is able to
- justify the significance ofpreventing non-communicable diseases and their impact on individuals, family and society
- justify the approaches and methods of health promotion in client-oriented nursing
- plan, implement and evaluate nursing of patients with chronic illnesses and give support for self-care
- explain the main diseases and medical grounds for care in the field of internal medicine
- plan, implement and evaluate client centred guidance, and justify different approaches and guidance methods in health promotion and nursing patients with long-term illnesses
- describe the main national and international recommendations for a healthy lifestyle
- justify the good practices and methods used to assess nutritional status
- describe the main drug classifications, drugs and medicines used in long-term and acute care and their mechanisms
- justify safe vaccination practices
Grading scale
Approved/Failed