14.2.3 SN22 NURSING IN ACTION 60 CR / 90 ECTS Credits

SN2200 The Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Nursing, 2 CR / 3 ECTS Credits
SN2201 Interaction in Nursing, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits + 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2202 Nursing as a Process, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits + 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2203 Primary Nursing and Community Orientation in Nursing, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits+ 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2204 Nursing Client in Transition, 2 CR / 3 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2205 Orientation to Expertise in Clinical Nursing, 1 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits
SN2206 Diagnosis and Observations in Nursing, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits+ 3 CR / 4.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2207 Help and Support in Nursing, 3 CR / 4.5 ECTS Credits + 7 CR / 10.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2208 Guidance in Nursing, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits + 2 CR / 3 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2209 Documentation in Nursing, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits + 3 CR / 4.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2210 Quality Management in Nursing, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits + 3 CR / 4.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2211 Consulting in Nursing, 2 CR / 3 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2212 Entrepreneurship in Nursing, 2 CR / 3 ECTS Credits

Professional Intensive Studies (20 CR / 30 ECTS Credits)

SN2213 The Philosophical and Scientific Foundation of Nursing Science, 2 CR / 3 ECTS Credits + 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2214 Nursing in Different Cultures, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits + 1 CR / 1 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2215 Professional Decision-making in Nursing, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits + 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS Credits clinical studies
SN2216 Leadership and Development in Nursing, 3 CR / 4.5 ECTS Credits

Institute specific intensive studies 10 CR / 15 ECTS Credits clinical studies

Optional study paths of professional intensive studies:
SN2300 Critical Care Nursing
SN2301 Rehabilitative Nursing Care
SN2302 Family Nursing
SN2303 Perioperative Nursing
SN2304 Nursing Care of the Mentally Ill and the Addicted Client

Objective

The student will internalise the value and
knowledge fundamentals directing nursing as a profession. The student understands that nursing is founded in nursing science. He / she will develop in self-knowledge and professional growth being able to interact with different clients (individual, family, community) and co-operative partners. The student will recognize and is able to respond to the changes in patient’s health with different nursing therapeutics in different nursing environments. He / she is capable of independent decision-making in nursing together with the patient or the client and his / her family. The student will learn to make a nursing care plan together with the patient or the client and his / her family and other professionals. He / she is capable of multi-professional teamwork in planning and leading social and health care services. He / she will develop in qualitative, economical and efficient action and entrepreneurship. The student will adopt information technology as a tool of documentation.

The institute specific objective is that the student will continuously develop his / her cultural skills by interacting with clients with diverse backgrounds and applies his / her cultural knowledge in nursing without prejudice. The student will develop his / her expertise in order to internalize it as part of his / her professional identity.

Objective and content
The student is aware of the philosophical foundation of nursing and the historical development of health care and nursing and their influences on the development of nursing. The student will familiarize him/herself with the central concepts of nursing and with the fundamentals guiding professional growth so that he / she is able to direct and assess his / her professional growth from the point of view of nursing taking advantage of the types of knowledge needed in nursing. The student is able to describe the nursing theory and its central concepts chosen as the basis for the nursing plan. The student will develop his / her own action so that he takes into consideration the client holistically and the scientific knowledge in nursing directing the action.

Objective and content
The student understands the meaning of interaction for the community. The student is capable of co-operating with different people in situations requiring professional skills and abilities. The student will deepen his / her self-knowledge and develop his / her skill to be genuinely present in nursing situations. He / she is able to recognize different groups and their meanings and is aware of group dynamics. He / she takes advantage of team- and group work skills in nursing situations.

Objective and content

The student knows how to look at nursing as a process from a theoretical framework. He / she is able to apply the chosen theoretical framework of nursing in the nursing care plan and in documentation using information technology.

The student is aware of the thinking process and decision making theories so that he / she understands the many forms and meanings of decision making in nursing. The student will develop in independent and communal decision making so that he / she knows how to gather information, how to plan and implement the nursing care based on the gathered data together with the patient, the family and the community. The student can evaluate the process and documentation of patient’s nursing care. He / she understands the legal regulations of patient documents.

Objective and content
The student can create a collaborative relationship with his / her client and is able to describe the development of the relationship. The student is able to make an individual nursing care plan with the client. He / she is able to make independent decisions together with his / her client and the family. The student understands and is able to define the community as a nursing client and is able to recognize the resources and the health needs of the community. The student can plan, implement and evaluate community nursing taking into consideration the community’s ethical, cultural, social and financial factors. The student will develop in empowering work methods. The student is willing to promote the health of the community as a member of a multi-professional team.

Objective and content
The student understands transition as a basic phenomenon in development of an individual and family, in health and in lifespan. The student reflects and searches for knowledge of transitions to be able to help and support the individual and family in transition in different nursing environments.

Objective and content
The student will familiarize him/herself with the expertise in nursing so that he / she is aware of the primary task and responsibility of a nurse. He / she forms a whole picture of the nursing therapeutics of the client / patient which are diagnosing and observation, helping and supporting, guiding, documenting and consulting, leading and developing nursing.

Objective and content
The student is familiar with the methods of gathering information. He / she is able to make observations on the patient’s situation and interview the patient and his / her family. He /she can observe and measure the patient’s physiological functions. The student is able to record the information without mistakes into the patient documents. He / she can make conclusions and anticipate changes in the health status. He /she can use the gathered information safely and reliably together with the patient and other people participating in the care. The student is able to assess the patient’s resources and anticipate the kind of help and support the patient needs.

Objective and content
The student will consider helping and supporting as concepts and therapeutics of nursing. The student will learn to help and support the patient and his/her family in daily activities by being present, comforting, touching and relieving pain. The student will help and support with the aim of accomplishing the commitment, participation, rehabilitation and integrity of the patient. The student will represent the patient by supporting the patient’s right to decide for him/herself. The student can assess his / her own actions in using nursing therapeutics of helping and supporting from the patient’s point of view concerning health, safety and ethical and financial issues. The student applies his/her skills in home environment, in primary health care, specialized health care and social services environment internalising the continuity of the care.

Objective and content
The student internalizes guidance as interaction where the student listens and encourages the patient to express his / her thoughts and feelings and helps the patient to use resources and to CReate prerequisites for experiencing health. The student is able to consider the ethical questions related to guidance. The student is familiar with the life in different cultures and nationalities and its influence on health. He / she is able to guide individuals, families and communities in health questions using the other official language and one foreign language.

Objective and content
The student is aware of the instructions and regulations for compiling and keeping patient documents and of the meaning of the documents from both the patient’s and the health care staff’s legal right point of view. The student understands and is able to justify the meaning of documentation for guaranteeing patient oriented care, patient safety, continuity of care, quality of care and multi-professional teamwork. The student is able to accurately record the patient’s care process in the documents so that the documentation is justified and it evaluates and describes the essence of the care. The student will develop in taking advantage of information technology as a tool for documentation in nursing. He / she takes into consideration confidentiality questions both from the point of view of the patient and the nursing staff.

Objective and content
The student understands quality management as an opportunity for study and development of health care services and nursing action together with the client / patient. The student is able to provide quality nursing and maintain and develop his / her own professional skills. The student is able to take professional responsibility of nursing and is able to critically evaluate the quality of his / her own action and that of the work of community. He / she can describe the nursing process and understands that it is a necessity for systematic evaluation and measurement of nursing. Through quality management, the student gets practice in correcting his / her own and the work community’s nursing action.

Objective and content
The student recognizes and understands the meaning of consulting in maintaining and developing the quality of nursing and his / her own professional skills. The student will develop in building and using different consulting networks both in his vicinity and internationally.

Objective and content
The student familiarizes him/herself with entrepreneurship and its meaning in the nursing field. He / she will internalize the philosophical and ethical premises of entrepreneurship. The student internalizes the qualifications of a registered nurse / public health nurse working as an entrepreneur. He / she understands that the most important capital of the enterprise is the entrepreneur him/herself and to succeed as an entrepreneur an innovative and CReative attitude , positive attitude towards entrepreneurship, good grasp of reality and insights on good business ideas to establish one’s own company are required. By internalizing the different forms of entrepreneurship, the students lays a foundation for growing into entrepreneurship as a part of his / her professional growth and internalized service orientation.

Objective and content
The student will familiarize him/herself with the philosophical approaches of science and understands their meaning for nursing and scientific nursing research. The student deepens his/her knowledge on nursing theories so that he / she is able to analyse the application possibilities of different nursing theories.

Objective and content
The student deepens his / her knowledge of the health concepts of different cultures and of theories of cultural nursing. He / she accepts the Finnish society as multicultural and aims to promote tolerance in society with his / her actions. The student is familiar with the EU social and health politics and with the laws, statutes, regulations and instructions regulating the clinical nursing care. The student wants to participate in the international development of nursing .

Objective and content
The student deepens his / her decision-making skills in interaction with the patient/ client, his/ her family and the community. The student is able to assess and consider his / her own professional decision making. The student is capable of equal decision making as a nursing expert and as the patient’s representative together with other people participating in the care.

Objective and content
The student understands the philosophical and ethical fundamentals of leadership in nursing as the basis of good leadership. He / she understands the connection of management process with the client’s / patient’s good care. The student is aware of the social political factors affecting health care planning and practice and participates in societal influencing. He / she will familiarize him/herself with the action plan of the work unit and will participate in its realization and evaluation. The student understands the meaning of human resource accounting as an instrument of nursing productivity and as a method of quality management. He / she is able to use knowledge of health economics and develops to be aware of the costs in his / her daily action. The student recognizes the elements of good leadership and management of one self and understands its meaning to the staff’s well-being. The student familiarizes him/herself with strategic planning, realization and follow-up using information and communication technology.

Objective and content
The student internalizes the philosophical, theoretical and methodological premises of health changes of individuals of different ages and different cultural backgrounds. Expertise requires knowledge of nursing and related disciplines, knowledge on people, health, the interaction between people and environment and functions of nursing.

Learning is based on the student’s individual learning plan, portfolio work and clinical studies. The studies include seminars and projects for the development of nursing. The assessment of learning is systematically and continuously taking advantage of self-evaluation and peer-evaluation.

Objective and content
The student is able to plan, implement and evaluate the nursing of people of different ages and of different cultural backgrounds in sudden health changes in different action environments. The student immediately recognizes the changes in the patient’s condition, evaluates their degree of urgency and takes responsibility for implementing the treatment according to the situation. The student is able to support the patient and his / her family in CRisis. The student is aware of the health care organization in disaster situations.

Objective and content
The student understands the societal meaning of rehabilitative nursing and internalizes the philosophical and cultural premises promoting rehabilitation. The student is able to evaluate the clients resources and is also able to support him / her and his /her family individually in different life transitions and environments. The student develops into being an expert in rehabilitative nursing in order to be able to function in multi-professional teams.

Objective and content
The student examines the theoretical premises of the family concept and deepens his / her knowledge on factors affecting family’s health. The student applies therapeutics of family nursing in different environments and considers the knowledge based on experience, ethics and research which is needed in family nursing.

Objective and content
The student is able to plan, implement and evaluate nursing in the different stages of peri-operative process together with the patient, his/her family and other staff participating in the treatment. He / she is able to support the patient’s resources and to secure the patient’s right to decide on his / her own treatment. He / she acts strategically, controls work and subject units and is able to make responsible decisions regarding treatment so that he / she can ensure the patient’s safety. He / she researches and plans perioperative nursing in conjunction with work life.

Objective and content
The student deepens his knowledge on mental health and addiction work in individual, group and community care. The student is able to promote his / her client’s mental healing and survival. The student is constantly motivated to consider his / her own work in relation to him/herself, to his / her clients, to the work unit and the society. The student develops to become a conscientious expert in developing his / her own work unit and profession in the field of mental health care and addiction work.