Supervised Clinical Training 11: Medical-Surgical Nursing 2 (10cr)

Objectives (course unit)

The student
- is able to act professionally according to patient safety and ethical principles in nursing in advanced medical- surgical nursing and palliative care circumstances in varied care facilities
- masters essential evidence based knowledge and skills of the advanced clinical nursing
- knows the most common illnesses and is able to recognise disturbances in vital functions of patients
- is able to implement knowledge in different stages of the nursing process for patients individually while taking family and health promotion into consideration in advanced clinical nursing
- is able to implement the principles of sustainability in nursing
- is able to work in multidisciplinary team
- reflects on own actions, sees the development needs and positively effects the work community.

Content (course unit)

Contents: clinical training in Medical- Surgical wards or Medical- Surgical outpatient clinics or specialised care’s Home hospitals

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

Pass
The student
- masters and is able to implement evidence based knowledge on advanced clinical nursing
- knows the most common illnesses and is able to recognise disturbances in vital functions of patients
- masters essentials of fluid- and pharmacotherapy and calculates accurately
- is able to analyse and implement knowledge in different stages of the nursing process for patients individually while taking family and health promotion into consideration in advanced clinical nursing
- masters varied observation and nursing methods in advanced clinical nursing
- understands ethical principles in nursing and is able to implement them in ethical decision making with patients in advanced clinical nursing
- understands the meaning of sustainability, patient safety, and professionalism via putting it into action 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

Fail
The student
- is not responsible for one’s learning, and cannot utilise feedback for professional growth
- repeatedly neglects preparation for procedures and/or implementation of the nursing process
- is not able to implement evidence based knowledge on advanced clinical nursing
- does not know the most common illnesses and is not able to recognise disturbances in vital functions of patients and is not capable of gaining the knowledge after feedback
- does not master essentials of fluid- and pharmacotherapy and calculates inaccurately
- is not able to analyse and implement knowledge in different stages of the nursing process for patients individually in advanced clinical nursing
- does not take family and health promotion into consideration in advanced clinical nursing
- does not master varied observation and nursing methods in advanced clinical nursing
- does not understand ethical principles in nursing and is not able to implement them in ethical decision making with patients in advanced clinical nursing
- does not put principles of sustainability, patient safety, and professionalism into action in advanced clinical nursing
- is not able to provide individual guidance taking the needs of the client and the family into consideration in advanced clinical nursing

Location and time

Mandatory orientation 6.11.2025
Clinical training as planned, weeks 2-7/2026.
Reflection: according to the schedule.
Skills lab day/workshop 1: 6.3.2026 in Taitokeskus
Skills lab day/workshop 2: according to the schedule.

The course implementation plan will be updated during the orientation. The reflection and skills lab day/workshop days will take place according to the timetable in the spring semester 2026.

Exam schedules

None.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail

Teaching methods

Clinical training in various health care settings.

Clinical training for 9 credits (6 weeks in clinical training placement). This means 230 hours in clinical settings.
Furthermore: mandatory participation in orientation and reflection, written assignment and mandatory participation in two skills day. (=1op).

Additionally; filling the medication passport.

Learning materials

All theoretical material, information, knowledge from previous courses, especially medical-surgical nursing course. Orientation material provided by the training placement.
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Student workload

10 credits is 270 hours.

Content scheduling

10 ects credits contain 9 ects credits in actual clinical setting and 1 ects credit skills lab days.

Completion alternatives

Supervised clinical training or studification (instructions can be found in Hoitotyön ohjattujen harjoittelujen Moodle https://moodle.tuni.fi/course/view.php?id=5288 0).

Practical training and working life cooperation

This is the final clinical training, so the student should have completed all, or at least most of the previous clinical trainings (1-10) before this final training 11.
The student needs to contact the training placement's coordinator two weeks prior the start of the training.
If a student would like to do studyfication, this needs to be discussed beforehand with the teacher.

International connections

Possibility to do in an international exchange