Basics of medication and nutrition for social sectorLaajuus (5 cr)
Code: 4_SSLAARA
Credits
5 op
Teaching language
- Finnish
Responsible person
- Arja-Sisko Kainulainen
Learning objectives
The student is able to
- identify the significance of nutritional health, threats and psychosocial links - Describe nutritional recommendations and special diets
- analyse the importance of nutrition and a healthy lifestyle to wellbeing
- advise and support clients on nutrition issues
- understand the acts, degrees and other instructions regulating pharmacological treatment and the basis of pharmacological treatment of the most common diseases
- know different pharmaceutical forms, administration routes of medication, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
- implement safe administration of pharmacological treatment
Content
Pharmacological treatment 3 ects and Nutrition 2 ects
- Nutritional recommendations and public health
- Healthy nutrition, special diets, food poisoning, hygienic work practices, personal hygiene and sanitation, own supervision of hygiene and related legislation
- Special nutritional issues in the field of social work
- Acts, degrees and other instructions regulating pharmacological treatment, pharmacological treatment in outpatient and institutional care, pharmacological treatment of people of different ages, pharmaceutical forms and labelling, administration routes, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, appropriate use of medicaments, safety and responsibility in pharmacological treatment, adverse reactions of medicaments, drug calculations