Study Guide

Objective

You know the different stages of the patient education process and the most important patient guidance methods. You can identify health risk factors and target early support to those who need it. You can identify existing and new health threats and know how to include them in the promotion of customers’ and patients’ health.
You know the key concepts, principles, theories and providers of health promotion.
You can use various methods of promoting health and functional capacity for different target groups. You know the principles of customer-oriented structured recording.
You can observe the respiratory and circulatory functions of adults, know the normal functioning or these systems and can identify changes in them.
You know how to use the most common methods of assisting nursing in respiratory and circulatory problems.

Content

-Target-oriented patient education
-Patient-oriented and comprehensive use of education methods
-Customer and patient engagement and its improvement
-Public health and health promotion (the impact of nutrition, physical activity and sleep on overall health)
Healthcare information technology
-Structured recording
-Clinical nursing procedures: respiratory and circulatory control and monitoring methods (ABC: ECG, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, temperature and NEWS scoring) and nursing assistance methods

Location and time

I semester

Materials

Patient Education & Health Promotion material:

Gragg L, Davies M & Macdowall W. 2013. Health promotion theory. Open University Press 2013. 2nd ed. Also availabe as an E-book with Luc Finna HAKA-login.

Edelman C L & Mandle C L. 2010. Health Promotion Throughout Life Span. Mosby Elsevier.

Terveyden edistäminen. 2022. Duodecim Oppiportti. Also availabe as an E-book with Luc Finna HAKA-login in Duodecim Oppiportti.

Other material appointed by the teachers

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Nursing material:

Kozier, B.& Erb B. et al. 2008. Fundamentals of Nursing. Concepts, Process and Practice. Pearson Education, Inc, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 

Skhole-material, 

Material of Dudecim Terveysportti and Oppiportti 

Moodle-material 

Red Cross Finland, 2014. First Aid instructions. Available at: https://www.redcross.fi/learn-first-aid/first-aid-instructions.  

Resuscitation council (UK). The ABCDE-approach. The Royal College of Physicians.  

National Early Warning Score (NEWS). Ethical guidelines of nursing: https://sairaanhoitajat.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Ethical-Guidelines-of-Nursing.pdf.  

Standardising the assessment of acute illness severity in the NHS. London: RCP:2017:1-77. WHO. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) http://www.who.int/classifications/icf/en/. 

Rautavaara-Nurmi, H., Westergård, A., Henttonen, T., Ojala, M: & Vuorinen, S. 2015. Hoitotyön taidot ja toiminnot. SanomaPro.  

Jones& Bartlett LEARNING. British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwiwes. 2020. Practice standard for BCCNM nurses. avaiblable: https://www.bccnm.ca/Documents/standards_practice/nurses/All_PS_Documentation.pdf. BNF Medicines Complete for Children (The British National Formulary BNF-Pediatric). 

Standardising the assessment of acute illness severity in the NHS. London: RCP: 2017:1-77. WHO. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) http://www.who.int/classifications/icf/en/. 

Teaching methods

Lectures and lessons in contact teaching, school & web based.
Independent individual & small group tasks.
Seminars & webinars (100% attendance).
Workshops & simulations (100% attendance).
Hands skills practice, Training Camp, practical training.
Other methods to support learning and achieving course goals.

Exam schedules

Exam in Patient Education & Health Promotion 12.12.2024 in Moodle
Exam of Nursing Interventions 13.12.2024 (also includes from Patient Education and Health Promotion -course nursing intervention parts (documentation, breathing and blood circulation) 
Re-exam of nursing interventions on spring 2025, if needed

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Satisfactory (1–2)
You can identify and describe the patient guidance process and the related legislation.
You can name and define the most important patient guidance methods.
You can identify and explain the concept of public health and name key health risk factors and threats.
You can explain the key concepts, principles, theories and providers of health promotion.
You can define the different stages of a customer-oriented and health-promoting guidance process and implement them under supervision.
You know and define various resource-driven methods of promoting health and functional capacity for different target groups and can implement them under supervision.
You identify the principles of structured recording.
You know and can assess patients’ basic vital functions in accordance with the ABC protocol, and you can support them under supervision.

Fail: You have not achieved level 1.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3–4)
You work mainly independently, responsibly and in compliance with legislation in the patient guidance process. You can choose and evaluate suitable patient guidance methods in a customer-oriented manner.
You can identify and explain the concept of public health and evaluate key health risk factors and threats.
You understand the key concepts, principles, theories and providers of health promotion.
You work mainly independently at different stages of the health-promoting guidance process and justify your actions at different stages of the process.
You mainly independently implement various resource-driven methods of promoting health and functional capacity for different target groups and can justify your actions.
You understand the principles of structured recording.
You can identify and assess patients’ basic vital functions according to the ABC protocol, and you can support them mainly independently.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5)
You can interpret patient guidance legislation and assess its implementation in patient guidance.
You can independently plan and provide patient guidance following the patient guidance process and combine different patient guidance methods and evaluate their suitability.
You understand the concept of public health and can evaluate and combine key health risk factors and threats.
You understand the key concepts, principles, theories and providers of health promotion and can combine them with nursing.
You operate independently and n a customer-oriented manner at different stages of the health-promoting guidance process and can evaluate and justify your actions at different stages of the process.
You implement various resource-driven methods of promoting health and functional capacity for different target groups independently and in a customer-oriented manner and can justify your actions.
You know the principles of structured recording.
You can independently assess and support patients’ basic vital functions according to the ABC protocol.

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Fail: You have not achieved level 1.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

You can identify and describe the patient guidance process and the related legislation.
You can name and define the most important patient guidance methods.
You can identify and explain the concept of public health and name key health risk factors and threats.
You can explain the key concepts, principles, theories and providers of health promotion.
You can define the different stages of a customer-oriented and health-promoting guidance process and implement them under supervision.
You know and define various resource-driven methods of promoting health and functional capacity for different target groups and can implement them under supervision.
You identify the principles of structured recording.
You know and can assess patients’ basic vital functions in accordance with the ABC protocol, and you can support them under supervision.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

You work mainly independently, responsibly and in compliance with legislation in the patient guidance process. You can choose and evaluate suitable patient guidance methods in a customer-oriented manner.
You can identify and explain the concept of public health and evaluate key health risk factors and threats.
You understand the key concepts, principles, theories and providers of health promotion.
You work mainly independently at different stages of the health-promoting guidance process and justify your actions at different stages of the process.
You mainly independently implement various resource-driven methods of promoting health and functional capacity for different target groups and can justify your actions.
You understand the principles of structured recording.
You can identify and assess patients’ basic vital functions according to the ABC protocol, and you can support them mainly independently.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

You can interpret patient guidance legislation and assess its implementation in patient guidance.
You can independently plan and provide patient guidance following the patient guidance process and combine different patient guidance methods and evaluate their suitability.
You understand the concept of public health and can evaluate and combine key health risk factors and threats.
You understand the key concepts, principles, theories and providers of health promotion and can combine them with nursing.
You operate independently and n a customer-oriented manner at different stages of the health-promoting guidance process and can evaluate and justify your actions at different stages of the process.
You implement various resource-driven methods of promoting health and functional capacity for different target groups independently and in a customer-oriented manner and can justify your actions.
You know the principles of structured recording.
You can independently assess and support patients’ basic vital functions according to the ABC protocol.