Public Health Nursing: Student Health (3 cr)
Code: 7K00GD35-3001
General information
Enrolment period
02.12.2023 - 26.01.2024
Timing
01.01.2024 - 28.01.2024
Credits
3 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Social Services and Health Care
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Public Health Nursing
Teachers
- Maija Korpikoski
- Anna Aikasalo
Person in charge
Maija Korpikoski
Groups
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24THV
Objectives (course unit)
The Student
- is able to plan, implement and evaluate the monitoring of the student's health, well-being and study ability in cooperation with the student and, if necessary, his/her relatives
- is able to guide and support the student in health-promoting choices and life management
- is able to guide and support the student in maintaining the ability to study
- is able to respond to the most common medical needs of students
- is able to assess the student's need for special support and follow-up care in cooperation with the student and, if necessary, the multidisciplinary study care group
- is able to maintain and promote, in cooperation with students, their relatives and other actors, the health and well-being of the study environment
Content (course unit)
- student public health nursing
- periodic medical examinations of students
- student health counseling (individual and group level)
- assessment and support of the student's study ability
- the most common health problems of students (youth medicine)
- early detection, treatment and follow-up of students' mental disorders
- early detection, treatment and follow-up of students' substance abuse problems
- promoting a student's sexual and reproductive health
- student health care as part of public health nursing
- multidisciplinary inspection of the health and safety of the study environment
- promoting the well-being of the educational community
- working methods: mini-intervention, foresight dialogues (multidisciplinary work)
Prerequisites (course unit)
The student must have completed the course Basics of Public Health Nursing.
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)
The Student
- is able to monitor the student's health, well-being and ability to study in cooperation with the student and, if necessary, his relatives
- is able to identify the needs of student health promotion and knows the basics of student guidance
- understand the importance of the ability to study for the well-being of the student
- know the most common medical needs of students
- is able to identify the need for special student support
- recognizes the importance of the growth community and environment for student well-being
Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)
The Student
- is able to plan, implement and evaluate the monitoring of the student's health, well-being and study ability in cooperation with the student and, if necessary, his relatives
- can use researched information to support student guidance and be able to justify choices that support health and life management
- is able to guide the student in maintaining the ability to study
- is able to meet the most common medical needs of students
- is able to support the student in the need for special support in cooperation with the student and, if necessary, the multidisciplinary study support group
- is able to promote, in cooperation with students, their relatives and other actors, the health and well-being of the study environment
Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)
The Student
- is able to plan, implement and evaluate the student's individual monitoring of health, well-being and study ability in cooperation with the student and, if necessary, his relatives
- masters individual guidance in choices that promote student health and life management
- is able to support the student in maintaining the ability to study
- is able to respond to the most common medical needs of students individually and refer to follow-up care if necessary
- is able to guide students in special needs and show skills in monitoring special needs and follow-up care
- is able to maintain the health and well-being of the study environment in cooperation with students, their relatives and other actors
Assessment scale
0-5