Life Crises as Part of Nursing (2cr)

Code: C-02472-BA00DG89-3001

General information

Enrolment period: 28.04.2025 - 07.09.2025; Registration for the implementation has begun.

Timing: 08.09.2025 - 31.12.2025; The implementation has not yet started.

Credits: 2 cr

Institution: Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, SeAMK Seinäjoki, Kampustalo

Teaching languages: English

Seats: 0 - 80

Course: C-02472-BA00DG89

Objectives (course unit)

The student understands the stages of the crisis and is able to support patients and family members in crisis situations. The student knows the collaborative actors in crisis situations. The student understands how to maintain physical and mental safety and how to maintain and promote his/her own mental well-being in nursing. The student is able to reflect and develop skills that are needed in crisis work as well as in work related health.

Content (course unit)

Patient's view: Stages of the crisis and nursing interventions for patients who have faced a life crisis situation. Violence in close relationships (not just in families or in intimate partnership). Documentation and legislation. Ethics in close relationship violence situations. Abuse of children or aged person and nursing interventions and collaborative actors. Child protection services, statement of concern about aged person care. Crisis situations in various nursing environments. Coping in nursing work: Main concepts: physical and mental work health and work safety. Promoting psychological resources. The use of work supervision, debriefing and defusing, PTSD, emotional burn out, surrogate traumatization, individual's and group's resilience and its meaning in work related coping. Individuals own and working community's responsibility in promoting work related health and effective methods to maintain work related health.

Prerequisites (course unit)

Registered Nurse's Core Competencies Modules I-III Registered Nurse's Competencies in Medication and Fluid Care Clinical training in the basics of clinical nursing Clinical training in gerontological nursing

Location and time

PARTLY INDEPENDENT ONLINE STUDY : The info lesson will be held online on Teams on 3rd September at 9.00 a.m. The info lecture will not be recorded. Copy and join lecture via link below: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzFiYjFhMzMtMDg5Ny00ODNiLWEwNTYtMzQ2MzNkYzBkMzhk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%228e83a730-1a46-40ed-8797-1d2d98cac2d1%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%223afab029-19c6-4309-b42f-3b5c665cb8a5%22%7d

Exam schedules

Assessment methods and criteria

Completion of the course requires the approved completion of the assignments in Moodle by the end of the course (31.12.2025). The assessment will be available on Peppi within one month of the end of the course.

Assessment scale

Passed/failed

Teaching methods

PARTLY INDEPENDENT ONLINE STUDY: At the beginning of the course there is a time-scheduled info lecture after which the course is conducted online in the Moodle learning environment. The study is carried out independently at your own pace during the implementation period. The student familiarizes themselves with the theoretical material, completes online assignments according to the given instructions. The study requires independent work and scheduling.

Learning materials

Material in Moodle. Studying requires special equipment: laptop or computer and headphones.

Student workload

The workload of the study is designed so that one credit corresponds to an average of 27 hours of student work to achieve the learning objectives. The actual time required varies individually, e.g., due to prior knowledge.