Nursing of Patients with Special Needs (5 ECTS)

Objective

Students
- are familiar with the special aspects of care and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities
- know how to support the functional capacity and participation of disabled persons
- can implement nursing of special needs groups and support the patient and his/her significant others
- are competent in the basics of palliative care, care guidelines and support methods
- know how to plan, implement and evaluate symptomatic nursing care of special needs groups
- can act based on the ethical guidelines of nursing and evaluate their implementation in the nursing care of special needs groups

Content

- special aspects of nursing and rehabilitation of disabled patients
- developmental disability
- sensory impairment
- palliative nursing
- evaluation of family coping and multiprofessional measures
- identifying and dealing with ethical challenges
- end-of-life care plan
- chronic pain and palliative care
- multicultural death

Location and time

Syksy 2025, 13.10.-14.11.2025

Materials

Materials in Moodle and provided by lectures.

All assignments and materials are under Copyright Act (404/61) and a teacher has the copyright. Assignments and materials are not allowed to be distributed or used in any other way. Distributing materials are only allowed if the teacher grants the permit.

Teaching methods

Interactive lecture
Compulsory expert lectures
Cooperative learning and guided assignment, Small group work
Independent studies and online cources
Clinical Laboratory teaching and simulation
Exam

Employer connections

Lectures by independent non-profit organisations and Rinnekodit Oy.

Exam schedules

Exam
1. Retake
2. Retake 2
Drug-alculations exam in EXAM-room
Drug calculation exam
1. retake
2. retake

International connections

the student can complete with an English-speaking group.

Completion alternatives

N/A

Student workload

1 cr = 27 h

Contact teaching 135 h (theory lessons and clinical practice lessons)
Independent studies.

Content scheduling

More information on Moodle.

Further information

Attendance at the orientation class is compulsory.

Clinical laboratory /Simulation teaching are of compulsory attendance and students are required to wear appropriate protective uniforms. Instructions given in asepsis lectures are to be obeyed during practises

The contents, assignments and evaluation in the course support the student achieveing competence required in core competencies (YleSH180op).

NOTE! Course related drug calculations and clinical labs/simulation has to be passed.

AHOT: Pedagogical solution, student will enroll on the course and participate in Orientation. Documents has to be presented to the course teacher after Orientation. Exam is compulsory.

Students need to have completed

Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing Competence.
Completed Clinical Practices in Environments of Medical Nursing and Surgical nursing.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"

Assessment methods and criteria

The course evaluation:
Online cources:Pass/Fail
Group assignments: Pass/Fail
Exam scale 0-5

Drug examinations: Scale Pass/ Fail

Qualifications

Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing Competence.
Completed Clinical Practices in Environments of Medical Nursing and Surgical nursing.