Study Guide

Objective

The student is able to apply learned skills while using podiatric instruments and devices safely and purposefully. The student manages the principles and practices of service operations and is able to function in a work community. The student is able to utilize the learned evaluation skills and treatment methods, understands the podiatric process and initiates clinical reasoning in practice. The student is able to perform dialogic and ethical interaction in client interactions and work community.

The student is knowledgeable of the clinical reasoning processes and clinical reasoning models in order to initiate a podiatry plan, treatment, and rehabilitation as expected in the practice of reasoning process.

The student knows how to act according to the ethical principles of health care.

The student is able to initiate self-assessment, peer assessment, and client documentation according to the instructions. The student is able to chart the client’s self-care habits and prioritize the client’s primary instructional needs.

The student is able to explain the legislation and organization on the prevention of microbes in Finland. The student is knowledgeable of the mechanism and causes of the most common infectious diseases especially in the area of skin, mucous tissues and foot/lower extremity, existing in the student’s work. The student is able to describe the function of immune responses toward microbes especially on the cell level in the blood and lymph. The student is knowledgeable of the infection routes of disease causing microbes and is able to describe the disease presentation and symptoms of the most common infectious diseases as well as knows the principles of protection from the microbe contamination in the profession.

The student is able to evaluate the environmental impacts of health care and podiatry. The student is able to describe what overconsumption, life cycle approach, carbon neutrality, carbon footprint and handprint mean in health care.

Content

-Podiatric evaluation of a client
-Implementation of the client’s podiatric treatment and rehabilitation
-Podiatric process
-Self-assessment and peer assessment
-Instruction of self-care
-Medical record documentation of clients
-Clinical reasoning process
-Development of clinical reasoning utilizing case examples
-Legislation and organization on prevention of microbes in Finland
-Clinical microbiology, infectious pathogens
-Impact of microbes in disease mechanisms
-Infectious diseases, pathogens, normal flora
-Function of immune response toward microbes in the blood and lymph
-Normal flora disorders and their repair
-Endogenic and exogenic contamination routes of disease causing microbes, hand hygiene
-Laboratory results and interpretation of infections
-Protection from microbes during client work
-Infection in different ages
- Ethical work with customers
- Carbon footprint of health care
- Sustainable development in podiatry

Prerequisites

Anatomia ja fysiologia (5op)
Anatomia ja fysiologia 2 (5op)
Toimintakyvyn arvioinnin perusteet (5op)
Biomekaniikka ja toimintakyvyn arviointi (5op)
Alaraajojen iho- ja kynsimuutokset (5op)
Ammattilaisena sosiaali- ja terveysalalla (5op)

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
· Student can search for professional knowledge regarding a single issue
· Student is familiar with the professional knowledge base of the field
· Student distinguishes informal information from research knowledge

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIONS
· Student can act in individual professional situations according to instruction
· Student aims to act in a client-oriented way
· Student proves to have adequate skills to act in
professional situations

ETHICS, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
· Student is familiar with the ethical principles of the field
· Student can work as a member of a work group
· Student is able to evaluate personal strengths and development needs

Assessment criteria, good (3)

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
· Student can search for knowledge from various
sources and is familiar with the professional knowledge base of the field

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIONS
· Student can work well in typical professional tasks and situations
· Student can work in a client-oriented way

ETHICS, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
· Student can act in accordance with the ethical principles of the field
· Student can work in work groups and projects
· Student develops oneself

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
· Student can search for knowledge from different sources and justifies their use
· Student utilizes the professional knowledge base

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIONS
· Student can apply professional skills in professional situations and acts responsibly
· Student can act in a client-oriented way
· Student is capable of solving professional tasks and problems

ETHICS, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
· Student justifies professional activities based on the ethical principles of the field
· Student can work in work groups and projects and shares competence
· Student develops oneself

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
· Student uses professional knowledge base of the field one-sidedly and is not familiar
enough with the sources of the field

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIONS
· Student does not have adequate professional knowledge or skills
· Student does not act according to educational objectives or instruction

ETHICS, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
· Student does not consider professional safety or ethical principles sufficiently
· Student does not show adequate readiness to participate in group and development work