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Orientation to the Profession (3 cr)

Code: 7K00FK72-3015

General information


Enrolment period

01.01.2022 - 06.03.2022

Timing

10.01.2022 - 31.05.2022

Credits

3 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Nursing

Campus

TAMK Main Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Nursing

Teachers

  • Minna Talvitie
  • Stiina Storvik-Sydänmaa
  • Päivi Lukin
  • Marita Mäki

Person in charge

Stiina Storvik-Sydänmaa

Groups

  • 22SH1C

Objectives (course unit)

The student
- knows how to plan and implement one's own personal study plan
- is able to constantly renew own skills and to learn new things
- can recognise the level of one’s own professional competence
- understands the importance of critical thinking in the development of professional expertise and in nursing
- is able to write the text according to the guidelines of TUAS's written communication
- knows the main tasks and responsibilities of the social and health professions the principles of regulatory oversight
- knows the library services, is able to locate materials needed for their studies and search for information

Content (course unit)

- written communication
- development of expertise
- key legislation and professional practice

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

Pass
The student
- is able to make a structurally intact, illustrative, case style and understandable problem-based text, in which the argumentation is convincing and diverse
- participates in the discussion of personal curriculum
- participates in the tutorial lessons and actively plans her/his own studies
- is familiar with the operational practices of the central professions in social and health care and the principles of their regulatory oversight.

Fail
The student
- is not able to write the text according to the guidelines of TUAS's written communication
- does not plan and implement his/her own personal study plan and does not study actively
- is not familiar with the essential tasks and responsibilities of the social and health care professions
- does not know the legislation regulating the social and health care professions.
- is not familiar with the supervision by authorities in the social and health professions.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail