Internship: Medical Nursing PracticeLaajuus (10 cr)
Code: IN00BL70
Credits
10 op
Teaching language
- English
Responsible person
- Tiina Mäkeläinen
- Ernest Aluoch
Learning objectives
After completing the course, the student
- understands the importance of the nurse’s ethical guidelines and nursing values in his or her work
- understands the importance of evidence based practice
- explains the emergence of internal and oncological diseases, their symptoms, diagnostics and treatments, and care
- can assesses the client's nursing needs in different nursing situations and environments
- deepens his or her expertise in planning, implementing and assessing the treatment of internal medicine and cancer patients and document the process
- knows the importance of service guidance in a situation of a patients with long-term illnesses and their closed ones
- carry out nursing interventions
- can apply nutrition and physical activity treatment
- is familiar with the basics of the essential medical treatment of internal medicine and cancer patient.
- can provide resource-oriented mentoring for the patient’s self-care and lifestyle changes
- understands and pays attention to the importance of closed ones and friends at different stages of the patient’s disease
- can perform the required drug calculations accurately
Content
- evidence based decision-making process in nursing care and nutrition therapy of internal
medicine and cancer patients
- essential medical care and drug calculations
- psychosocial support for the client and the closed ones at different stages of the disease
- ethics and health promotion, the client’s active role in self-care
- the most common internal diseases and diagnostics
- documentation
- Infection prevention and control
- encountering a terminally ill or dying patient (basics of palliative care)
Further information
Possible travel and/or housing expenses.
Qualifications
Nursing Assessment and Interventions theory and Clinical skills courses completed.
Internship: Nursing Assessment and Interventions Practice completed.
Basics of Pharmacological Treatment completed, and one set of drug calculations completed.
Medical Nursing theory in progress.
Enrollment
01.12.2024 - 15.01.2025
Timing
27.01.2025 - 30.05.2025
Credits
10 op
RD proportion (cr)
7 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Teaching languages
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
- Okko Tervo
- Minna-Mari Ikonen
- Roosa Vehkoja
- Ernest Aluoch
- Tiina Mäkeläinen
Scheduling groups
- G1/2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- G2/2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- G1/3 (Size: 10. Open UAS: 0.)
- G2/3 (Size: 10. Open UAS: 0.)
- G3/3 (Size: 10. Open UAS: 0.)
Student groups
-
IN24SPNursing
Education groups
- G1/2
- G2/2
- G1/3
- G2/3
- G3/3
Teaching methods
Internship in different nursing environments in hospitals, health centers. Participation in simulations(100%), seminars(100%) and workshops(100%). Assignments.
Student workload
Medical Nursing -Internship course, 10 ects. (270 hours of student work)
Internship, five weeks 185h
Internship ( placement, practice and purkku) info sessions = 10h
Seminars 1 x 4h = 4h
Simulations= 8h
Skill labs= 8h
PSP Discussion= 1 h
Tutor teacher lesson = 4h
Independent studies, 50 h
Practical training and working life cooperation
Assessment (270 hours of student work)
Internship five weeks (185h) equivalent of (37 hours/ week).
Qualifications
Nursing Assessment and Interventions theory and Clinical skills courses completed.
Internship: Nursing Assessment and Interventions Practice completed.
Basics of Pharmacological Treatment completed, and one set of drug calculations completed.
Medical Nursing theory in progress.
Materials
Janice L. Hinkle, Kerry H. Cheever. 2013. Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing. 13th ed. Lippincot’s. Available on-line book.
-Current Care Guidelines (Käypä hoito) http://www.kaypahoito.fi/web/english/home
-Material in Moodle
Further information
Nursing Assessment and Interventions theory and Clinical skills courses completed.
Internship: Nursing Assessment and Interventions Practice completed. Basics of Pharmacological Treatment completed, and one set of drug calculations completed.
Medical Nursing theory in progress.