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Nursing of Children and Young People (5 cr)

Code: SX00DZ90-3050

General information


Enrollment

01.04.2024

Timing

21.04.2025 - 23.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

School of Health Care

Campus

Myllypurontie 1

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 35

Degree programmes

  • Public Health Nursing
  • Degree Programme in Emergency Care
  • Nursing (in Finnish)
  • Midwifery

Groups

  • TERVEYSAP24S
    TERVEYS_AVOIMEN VÄYLÄ_S2024

Objective

Students
- understand the ethical, pedagogical and methodological standpoint of patient education
- can plan, implement and evaluate patient education in a family-oriented way in cooperation with other experts
- understand the significance of illness and various care environments to a child, a young person and his/her family and are able to support and promote the health and wellbeing of families with children
- can plan, implement and evaluate the nursing of children and young persons bearing in mind the principles of nursing and ethical questions related to their care

Content

- ethical, pedagogical and methodological standpoint of patient education
- principles of nursing and ethics in nursing of children and young persons
- development and growth of children and young persons
- supporting the child, young person and families as well as the patient education process in nursing care
- principal methods for nursing of children and young persons
- the family-oriented nursing process of children and young persons with acute or long-term illnesses
- key questions related to nursing of children and young persons and the most common illnesses of children and young persons

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"

Prerequisites

Medical Nursing Competence.
Surgical nursing Competence.