Oncological NursingLaajuus (5 ECTS)

Objective

Students can plan, implement, evaluate and develop the holistic nursing of cancer patients of all ages?.

Students can support and guide the patient and their family members through the different stages of the care path.

Students are capable of independent and multiprofessional decision-making as part of the holistic care of cancer patients.

Students show responsibility through their own actions on the quality of their nursing.

Content

• Client-oriented support of cancer patients and their family members, patient education and promotion of self-care
• Evidence-based action and decision-making in the nursing of cancer patients (i.e. examinations, instructions for treatment, nursing recommendations)
• ?Multiprofessional networking in the nursing of cancer patients
• Contemporary challenges in oncological nursing
• Specific questions

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

ArEvaluating competences evaluation criteria competent/intermediate level is used.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Student
- can search for knowledge resourcefully utilizing sources of the field and uses the knowledge base of the field
- is familiar with the knowledge base and core components of the profession
- has adequate professional skills to work in the profession
- can work in a client-oriented way
- solves professional tasks and problems
- works safely and in accordance with the ethical principles of the field
- displays competence benefitting groups or projects
- is able to evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses and development needs