Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

The student
- knows the meaning of falling ill with internal medicine diseases and disorders for patients and families
- knows how to plan, implement and evaluate nursing care of a patient with internal medicine diseases and disorders
- is able to plan and implement patient’s self-care guidance in a family-oriented way
- knows the fundamentals of pharmacotherapy, its guidance, implementation and assessment of patients with internal medicine diseases and disorders
- knows the meaning of interdisciplinary collaboration in the holistic care of a medical patient.
- knows the meaning of genomic data in medical nursing
- knows the basics of planning, implementing and evaluating cancer patients’ nursing care while considering significant others
- knows the basics of planning, implementing, and evaluating holistic nursing care of a patient in palliative care while considering significant others

Content (course unit)

-Cardiovascular Nursing
-Diabetes Nursing
-Nephrology nursing
-Neurology nursing
-Pulmonary nursing
-Infection control nursing
-Inflammatory bowel diseases nursing care
-Rheumatoid arthritis nursing care
-Cancer nursing
-Palliative nursing
-Genomic Data in Medical nursing
-Self-care and its significance and coping with self-care, supporting self-care
-Examining and assessing basic vital signs and interventions when condition changes

Prerequisites (course unit)

Participation in the courses Basics of Clinical Nursing and Medical Calculations.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

The student
-recognizes the meaning of falling ill with internal medicine disease and disorder for the patient and his/ her family
-knows the basics of planning, implementing, and assessing nursing care of a medical patients
-knows the main nursing interventions of medical patients at different stages of an illness
-knows the key issues related to self-care guidance
-knows the key issues related to the medication guidance, implementation, and impact assessment of a medical patient
-recognizes the meaning of interdisciplinary collaboration in the holistic care of a medical patient
-can identify the significance of the genomic data in medical nursing
-can identify the basis for the nursing care of the patient who has cancer
-can identify the basis for the palliative care.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

The student
-knows the meaning of falling ill with internal medicine disease and disorder for the patient and his/ her family
-is able carry out nursing care for a medical patient
-is able carry out the main nursing interventions at different stages of illness
-knows the key issues related to self-care guidance planning and implementing
-manages medication guidance, medication management and monitoring of medical patients
-knows the meaning of interdisciplinary collaboration in the holistic care of a medical patient
-knows the meaning of genomic data for medical nursing
-knows the key issues of nursing care planning, implementing, and assessing of cancer nursing while considering significant others
-knows the key issues of holistic planning, implementing and assessing in palliative care while considering significant others

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

The student
- understands the meaning of falling ill with internal medicine disease and disorder for the patient and his/ her family
- is able to plan, implement and assess patient-focused nursing care and understands the causal relationships
-masters the most important nursing interventions at different stages of illness of medical patients and is able to implement according to the situation
-knows the patient-oriented self-care guidance, implementation, and impact assessment for medical patient
-knows the patient-oriented medication guidance, implementation, and impact assessment for medical patient
-understands the meaning of interdisciplinary collaboration in the holistic care of a medical patient
-understands the meaning of genomic data for medical nursing
-manages the essentials of planning, implementing, and assessing nursing care of a cancer patient while considering significant others
-manages the essentials of planning, implementing, and assessing nursing care of a patient in palliative care while considering significant others

Location and time

TAMK, Autumn 2022.
Lectures are planned to be held on campus. In exceptional circumstances, lectures may be held on-line.

Exam schedules

EXAMS - please note that all examinable components (exams and assignments) of the course must be passed in order to pass the course. You will need to have completed and passed all the tasks/assignments on Moodle in order to take the exam. The link to exam registration will open once all the relevant tasks are done.

EXAM COMPONENTS:
Nutrition exam in Moodle: The nutritional course material is in Moodle course page. Study the material about nutrition in diabetes and cancer. Take the exam. The exam is passed when you get a minimum grade of 11/15. Deadline 25.11.2022.

Infectious diseases exam in Moodle: The infectious diseases resource material is in Moodle course page. Study the material and take the exam. The exam is passed when you get a minimum of 24/40. Deadline 25.11.2022.

Drug calculations exam: Practice questions and answers in Moodle course page. There will be a drug calculation incorporated in the exam covering the course theory. Date and place will be communicated later. The drug calculation part will be evaluated separately from the theory.

The initial course exam will run in the exam environment over weeks 48-49. 50% correct = pass.


RE- EXAMS:
1st re-exam: January 2023
2nd re-exam: February 2023

Assessment methods and criteria

Part 1: Nursing Care of Internal Medicine and Palliative Care theory. Grading 1-5.
Part 2: nutrition online course and exam. Grading pass/fail.
Part 3: infectious diseases online course and exam. Grading pass/fail.
Part 4: Drug calculations (included in the exam). Grading pass/fail.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Possible teaching methods include: contact teaching, online teaching, individual, pair and group tasks; lectures, discussions, independent study, tests, small group work, flipped learning.

Learning materials

Ebook:by Anne-Marie Brady, Catherine McCabe, and Margaret McCann 2014. Fundamentals of Medical-Surgical Nursing : A Systems Approach. Part 2. Chapters and sections to study in Moodle.

Brunner & Suddarth's textbook of medical-surgical nursing

Guidelines and other materials in Moodle/allocated by the teacher.

Materials searched and created during small group work

Student workload

Total course: 5cr = 135hours (27hrs/cr)
Contact teaching: 30 hours
Independent study: 105 hrs

Content scheduling

The course consists of the following parts:

Part 1: Nursing Care of Internal Medicine and Palliative Care theory
Part 2: nutrition online course and exam
Part 3: infectious diseases online course and exam
Part 4: Drug calculations (included in the exam)

All parts need to be successfully completed by the given due dates in order to pass the course.

Completion alternatives

N/A

Practical training and working life cooperation

N/A

International connections

N/A

Further information

The course orientation is compulsory if you wish to part-take in the course. Possible group work and related presentations are compulsory for all students.