Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

The student
- masters essential evidence based knowledge and skills of the advanced clinical nursing practice of long- term patients;
- masters essential knowledge about continuity and health promotion for the advanced clinical nursing practice of long- term patients;
- masters promoting of coping of the patient and family.

Content (course unit)

- assessment of care needs, planning of care, implementation, and evaluation in long- term conditions
- exacerbations and acute-on-chronic situations with long term conditions
- demanding situations of long- term patients in varied care facilities
- evidence based nursing care of patients with long term conditions
- self-care guidance for a client with long term condition
- palliative care

Prerequisites (course unit)

Before starting the advanced studies of Medical–Surgical Nursing, the student must have completed 135 credits of studies including Anatomy and Physiology and all the middle phase courses concerning Medical Nursing and Surgical Nursing, including all orientations to clinical trainings of those subjects.

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

The student
- understands, by providing rationales, evidence based knowledge on advanced clinical nursing of long- term patients;
- knows long term conditions’ fluid- and pharmacotherapy and calculates accurately;
- knows the theoretical basis of the different stages of the nursing process for long- term patients’ while taking individuality, family and health promotion into consideration in advanced clinical nursing;
- knows the main principles of varied observation and nursing methods in advanced clinical nursing for long term conditions;
- understands ethical principles in nursing and knows how those are used in ethical decision making with long term patients in advanced clinical nursing;
- recognises the meaning of sustainability, patient safety, and professionalism with long term patients in advanced clinical nursing;
- knows the principles of guidance while taking into consideration the needs of the person with long term condition and the family in advanced clinical nursing.

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

The student
- partially masters evidence based knowledge on demanding clinical nursing of long- term patients;
- mainly masters long term conditions’ fluid- and pharmacotherapy and calculates accurately;
- knows how to utilize knowledge in different stages of the nursing process for long- term patients’ while taking into consideration individuality, family and health promotion in advanced clinical nursing;
- understands varied observation and nursing methods in advanced clinical nursing for long term conditions;
- understands ethical principles in nursing and knows how those are used in ethical decision making with long term patients in advanced clinical nursing;
- understands the meaning of sustainability, patient safety, and professionalism with long term patients in advanced clinical nursing;
- knows the principles of individual guidance while taking into consideration the needs of the person with long term condition and the family in advanced clinical nursing.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

The student
- masters and is able to implement comprehensively evidence based knowledge on advanced clinical nursing of long- term patients;
- masters long term conditions’ fluid- and pharmacotherapy comprehensively and calculates accurately;
- is able to analyse and implement knowledge in different stages of the nursing process for long- term patients individually while taking family and health promotion into consideration in advanced clinical nursing;
- masters varied observation and nursing methods comprehensively in advanced clinical nursing for long term conditions;
- understands ethical principles in nursing and is able to implement them in ethical decision making with long term patients in advanced clinical nursing;
- understands the meaning of sustainability, patient safety, and professionalism with long term patients in advanced clinical nursing;
- masters individual guidance taking the needs of the person with long term condition and the family into consideration in advanced clinical nursing.

Exam schedules

Exam includes nursing care and calculation
Course exam in Exam-area week 13
1st retake exam week 18
2nd retake exam week 21
Re-exams can be taken separately for calculation and theory part.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Mandatory orientation 16.1.2023.
Lectures, team work, small group work, individual study/tasks/assignments

Learning materials

Brady, Anne-Marie, McCabe, Catherine, McCann, Margaret. 2014. Fundamentals of Medical-Surgical Nursing : A Systems Approach. eBook by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (TUNI FINNA)
Part 2: Adult Medical and Surgical Nursing.

Hinkle, J.L & Cheever, K.H (different editions) : Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Peate, Ian. 2016. Medical-Surgical Nursing at a Glance. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (TUNI FINNA)
Part 3 Medical Nursing, Part 4 Surgical Nursing

Yoost, Barbara L., Crawford, Lynne R., Peterson, Veronica. 2015. Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing : Active Learning for Collaborative Practice. Elsevier. (TUNI FINNA)

Recommended literature: Material provided by the teachers during the course.
All material in used/created in small group work, lectures and group assignments.

Student workload

The course is 4 ECTS. 1 ECTS is 27 hours of student work. The total work is 108 hours of student's work, including online studies, blended learning, small group work and independent studies.

Content scheduling

1 Theory
2 Calculation
3 Small group work UEF seminar 15.3.2023 (online)
4 Small group work Internaional week participation and learning log

Completion alternatives

none

Further information

Course is a part of Advanced studies. Prior to course student must have completed 135 credits of nursing studies (including pharmacotherapy, anatomy and physiology, studies in Medical-Surgical nursing).

Mandatory participation in Orientation lecture and small group sessions. All tasks must be completed within the given timeframes. Written assignments must be done according to TAMK/Tuni's written work instructions and template. References must fulfill evidence-based nursing requirements.

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Exam answers creating potential or permanent damage to a patient or endangering patient safety will lead to failed examination.
All calculations 100% correct.