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Care of Clients with Chronic Illnesses (10 cr)

Code: R0190-STV1811A

General information


Enrollment

14.05.2018 - 31.05.2018

Timing

20.08.2018 - 21.12.2018

Number of ECTS credits allocated

10 op

Virtual proportion

5 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Unit

Laurea Tikkurila, sote

Campus

Laurea Tikkurila

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Terveydenhoitajakoulutus (STV2), Laurea Tikkurila (Finnish)

Teachers

  • Niina Glerean
  • Anne Hiller-Ikonen
  • Riikka Ketonen
  • Lotta Tiikkainen
  • Riitta Salo

Groups

  • STV218KA

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