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 2023.
Lectures are planned to be held on campus. Lectures may be held on-line as planned by the teacher.

Any changes in lecture schedule will be communicated through Moodle page or Email announcements.

Exam schedules

EXAMS AND TASKS

Please note that all tasks must be passed in order to enroll for the exam.
Pretasks must be completed before contact class sessions.
Students must complete all the assignments and Moodle exams by given deadline.

Please ensure you have booked your exam time before the first day of the exam period to ensure you have a time slot during the given exam period.

Per TAMK regulations, a missed exam is marked as a fail.

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.

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.

General theory exams 1 and 2: In Exam environment. 50% correct = pass.

Drug calculations exam: Paper exams will be administered by teachers in class. Independent practice questions are in Moodle. Remember to review calculations from previous courses as well. The drug calculation part will be evaluated separately from the theory. All steps and answers must be shown and must be correct to pass

The exam dates will be announced during course INFO

RE- EXAMS:
Those who fail initial exams and those who wish to improve their grades may enroll for resit exams
Resit exam dates will be communicated with Exam results.

Any changes in exam dates will be communicated through Moodle page or Email announcements.

Assessment methods and criteria

Part 1: Theory assignments and exam 1 Grade 1-5
Part 2: Theory assignments and exam 2 Grade 1-5
Part 3: Nutrition in diabetes and cancer Moodle course and exam. Grade Pass/Fail.
Part 4: Infectious diseases Moodle course and exam Grade Pass/Fail
Part 5 Small group work Grade Pass/Fail
Part 6: Nursing calculations . Grade Pass/Fail.

All assignments and Moodle tests MUST BE completed by the given deadline. Late submissions will NOT be accepted. Students who fail to complete the assignments within the given timeframe can not register for the exam and will fail the course.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Possible teaching methods include: contact teaching, online teaching as organized by teacher, individual, pair and group tasks; lectures, discussions, independent study, tests, presentations, 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 Course INFO in Moodle.

Brunner & Suddarth's textbook of medical-surgical nursing

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

Students to search for other credible books and materials for assignments and independent reading.

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 assignments and Exam 1
Part 2: Nursing Care of Internal Medicine and Palliative Care theory assignments and Exam 2
Part 3: Nutrition Moodle course and exam
Part 4: Infectious diseases Moodle course and exam
Part 5: Small group worshops
Part 6: Nursing calculations

All parts and related tasks must to be successfully completed in order to pass the course.

Completion alternatives

None

Further information

The course orientation is compulsory. Students who wish to participate in the course must attend orientation. Students who do not attend course INFO will be removed from the course.

Small groupwork and related presentations are compulsory. Students must complete pretasks before small group sessions

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

Per Curriculum