Study Guide

Objective

Competence goals

You know how to treat a client / patient according to the nursing care process, holistically and safely.
You know how to utilize technology and digital tools in nursing.
You know what professional responsibility means in nursing work.
You know the principles of health promotion and you act accordingly in nursing work.
You know the fundamentals of anatomy and physiology of human beings.
You will be able to write an essay by using evidence-based information and referencing.

Content

Patient-safe nursing

- Fundamentals of human anatomy and physiology
- Nursing care process and documenting
- Clinical nursing functions and skills
- Basics of ergonomics
- Patient safety

Health promotion guidance and counselling

- Principles of health promotion
- Guidance and teaching in nursing
- Oral and written communication in nursing
- Finnish National Vaccination Programme (Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare)

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

You act in a responsible and professional manner and follow guidance in the various phases of the nursing process and can name the process phases.
You act in accordance with guidance recognising your professional responsibility for ensuring and promoting patient safety, and can explain your actions.
You explain the principles of health promotion and consider the customer’s resources in your actions.
You act according to guidance in a customer-oriented and health-promoting manner in the various phases of the guidance process and can name the process phases.
You name the basics of the structure, function and regulation of organ systems in the human body as part of the nursing work.
You report essential information and issues both orally and in writing based on sources and observe text type instructions, language recommendations and the institute's instructions.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

You act in a responsible and professional manner and mainly independently in the various phases of the nursing process and can describe your activities in the process.
You act mainly independently recognising your professional responsibility for ensuring and promoting patient safety, and justify your actions.
You utilise the principles of health promotion when acting in a resource-oriented manner to promote customer health.
You act mainly independently and in a customer-oriented manner promoting health in the various phases of the guidance process and justify your actions through the phases.
You explain and provide grounds for the basics of the structure, function and regulation of organ systems in the human body as part of the nursing work.
You present a consistently structured oral and written account based on sources and apply text type instructions, language recommendations and the institute’s instructions.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

You act in a responsible and professional manner in the various phases of the nursing process and can assess your activities in the process.
You act in a responsible and professional manner in ensuring and promoting patient safety and assess your actions.
You analyse the principles of health promotion, taking into account the customer’s resources in health promotion and assess the choice of the principles you employ.
You act in a customer-oriented and health-promoting manner in the various phases of the guidance process and assess your actions.
You link the basics of the structure, function and regulation of organ systems in the human body to the overall the nursing work.
You modify and consolidate ideas presented in the sources to form a fluent verbal and written presentation and take the requirements of the communication situation into account.