Study Guide

Objective

Ethics, Professionalism, and Client-Centeredness:
The student can plan, implement, and evaluate client-centered nursing care together with the elderly and their relatives.
The student can justify their actions in accordance with the ethical values and principles of the nursing profession and the legislation related to professional practice.

Communication and Interprofessionalism, Patient and Client Safety, Information Technology, and Documentation:
The student can plan, implement, and evaluate rehabilitative nursing care in a client-safe manner in interprofessional collaboration.

Social and Healthcare Service System, Leadership and Employee Skills, Quality Assurance, and Entrepreneurship and Development:
The student utilizes the service system and nursing processes in the client's care and service chain.

Clinical Nursing, Guidance and Teaching Skills, Self-Care Support, Health, and Functional Capacity Promotion:
The student can define the nursing needs, plan, implement, and evaluate elderly nursing care based on evidence.

Evidence-Based Practice, Utilization of Research Information, and Decision-Making:
The student can apply evidence-based care recommendations in elderly nursing care.

Content

Supervised practical elderly care units. Public, third and private sectors.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Ethics, professionalism and client centredness:

Pass
- The student will identify the needs of the elderly and implement individualised and resource-based care.
- The student is guided by the values and principles of nursing and can explain their importance in the care of the elderly.
- The student has selected and adapted his/her personal learning objectives to suit the unit and patient group concerned.
- The student reflects on the development of his/her competence in relation to the personal learning objectives and assessment criteria.
- The student's reflective self-assessment is based on evidence-based knowledge.

Fail
- The student disregards the resources of the elderly and is indifferent towards the elderly or people close to them.
- The student breaches confidentiality.
- The student acts in violation of the professional ethical values and principles of nursing and the law governing the practice of the profession.
- The student's personal competence objectives are missing or the self-assessment is superficially described.

Communication and multidisciplinarity, patient and client safety, information technology and record keeping:
Pass
- The student will promote patient and client safety at all stages of the care process.
- The student will be able to implement appropriate documentation and reporting.
- The student recognises the importance of multi-professional cooperation in the rehabilitative care of the elderly.

Fail
- The student compromises patient safety by his/her actions.
- Documentation and reporting is inadequate.
- The student does not recognise the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation in the care of the elderly.

Service system, management and staff competences, quality assurance, entrepreneurship and development in the social and health care sector:
Pass
- The student will identify the service system for older people and be able to describe the care and service chain with examples.
- The student is able to assess, together with the supervisor, the service needs of the elderly.

Fail
- The student does not recognise the importance of the service system in the care of the elderly.

Clinical nursing, guidance and teaching skills and support for self-care, promotion of health and functional capacity:
Pass
- The student will use and justify client-centred care interventions required in clinical nursing.
- The student will implement medication management for the elderly in accordance with the delegated authority and understand his/her own responsibility in its implementation.
- The student recognises the specificities of medication management of the elderly and is able to implement and evaluate medication management of the elderly.
- The student will use appropriate methods of client counselling and will provide client-centred counselling.

Fail
- The selected nursing activities do not meet the client's care needs or are not based on evidence-based knowledge.
- The student is indifferent when providing medication management to the elderly.
- The need for client-centred guidance for the elderly is not identified and implemented.


Evidence-based practice, use of research evidence and decision making:
Pass
- The student applies evidence-based care recommendations as part of decision-making.
- Students can search for evidence-based information in reliable databases.

Fail
- Care recommendations are not used in the management and decision-making of older people.