Study Guide

Objectives

In this course, you will develop your skills in assessing client-centered and holistic care, as well as in interdisciplinary collaboration using technology solutions.

After completing the course, the student
• Is able to assess the need for and functional capacity of home-based care in a customer-oriented and comprehensive manner, using evidence-based assessment methods, digital and technology.
• Is able to plan, implement and evaluate nursing work creatively and in a customer-oriented manner, utilizing the client's information and evidence-based information in emergency services provided at home, in a home hospital and in home care client guidance.
• Is able to ethically guide and support the client and loved ones and to plan and secure the continuity of care by utilizing digital resources.
• Is able to work in a multi-professional collaboration as a responsible nursing expert.
• Is able to realistically evaluate and reflect on one's own professional competence and activities in the work community.

Content

• The most common acute and long-term illnesses in the population at different stages of life, their symptoms, treatment and evaluation of treatment in home services
• Supporting self-care, health promotion, functional assessment and nursing work supporting rehabilitation
• Changing work environments and service processes in primary health care, digital health services, nursing at home and remotely
• Nursing decision-making, documentation of care planning in various care processes
• Remote technologies, sensors, wearable technology and robotics in home care
• Nurse as a self-nurse, responsible nurse, or team nurse

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student
• Is able to assess the patient's need for care and functional capacity, plan and implement and evaluate nursing work at home using technologies.
• Is able to guide and support the patient and relatives in a customer-oriented way with versatile methods.
• Recognizes the effects of illness on the client and loved ones and is able to search for information to support them.
• Able to identify the patient's perspective and bring it to the fore in multidisciplinary teams.
• Able to evaluate one's own activities under supervision.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The student
• Is able to apply what he / she has learned in addressing the diseases included in the course, identifying the need for treatment, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment.
• Is able to take into account the effects of illness on the family and to plan care at home in a family-oriented manner and applying technologies in a customer-oriented manner.
• Is able to utilize evidence-based information in nursing.
• Reflects on its own activities and identifies its development challenges, and is able to evaluate peers and give constructive feedback.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student
• Is able to analyze, reflect and integrate what he / she has learned into a professional context when caring for a patient at home.
• Is able to evaluate his / her activities in caring for the patient and family independently.
• Is able to utilize and apply evidence-based information and diverse technological services in nursing.
• Reflects on the effects of evaluations of one's own actions and solutions in relation to others.