Acute Nursing of ChildrenLaajuus (15 cr)

Objective

Students
- deepen their evidence-based competence in accordance with the key competence areas of nursing: clinical, decision-making, patient education, interaction, ethical, health promotion, and development and leadership competence
- can evaluate their evidence-based development and assume responsibility for the quality of nursing in their own actions
- are prepared for future-oriented and patient/client-oriented development of nursing
- deepen competence in planning, implementing, evaluating and developing nursing of children, young persons and families in different operating environments
- deepen competence in supporting and providing patient education to children, young persons and their families in different phases of the clinical pathway

Content

- evidence-based nursing and its development
- nurses’ expertise and multiprofessional teamwork and networks
- health technology and competence in future nursing
- advanced studies on nursing of children, young persons and families (both somatization and mental health)
- patient education on the patient’s resources and empowerment as well as supporting and providing education to his/her family
- specific questions related to the study unit

Qualifications

The student may choose the nursing expertise studies when he has completed the theoretical studies included in the professional nursing studies and clinical practices included in these, unless otherwise agreed in the student's ISP.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"