Patient-centred Nursing Process in Palliative Care (5 cr)

Objective

The student
-masters patient’s comprehensive and holistic health assessment, identification of the need for care (diagnosis), clinical care of the patient and health promotion interventions.
-demonstrates advanced skills and knowledge of the comprehensive holistic clinical examination of health (including physical, mental, ethnic, cultural dimensions of health) using evidence-based frameworks, tools and techniques based on patient needs and relevance to client health.
-applies advanced level knowledge when creating systematic palliative or end-of-life care plan based on the patient’s and his/her next of kin’s individual needs and situation.
-critically evaluates and utilizes interventions developed for enhancing patient and medication safety and explains the significance of risk management in palliative and in end of life care.

Content

-Holistic clinical examination of health (including physical, mental, ethnic, cultural dimensions of health)
-Nursing process and systematic planning of care
-Patient and medication safety and risk management
-Clinical decision making in evidence based palliative care/nursing

Materials

Käypä hoito suositukset, muut hoitosuositukset
Saha, H., Salonen, T. & Sane, T. (toim.) 2019. Potilaan kliininen tutkiminen. Helsinki: Kustannus oy Duodecim.
Bickley, L.S. 2009. Bate's Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Bickley, L.S. 2009. Bate's pocket guide to physical examination and history taking / Lynn S. Bickley, Peter G Szilagyi. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Dahlin, C., Coyne, P. J. & Ferrell, B. R. 2016. Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dahlin, C., Coyne, P. J. & Ferrell, B. R. 2016. Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing. New York: Oxford University Press
Ferral, BR. & Paice, JA. 2019. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing. New York: Oxford University Press. E-kirja

Evaluation scale

0 - 5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Tehtävien 1 ja 2 hyväksytty suorittaminen (tehtävien arviointikriteerit on ilmoitettu opintojakson verkkoalustalla tehtävien yhteydessä) sekä verkkokeskusteluun osallistuminen.

OSCE näytön hyväksytty suorittaminen.

Potilaan kliinisen tutkimuksen taitopajoihin osallistuminen.