Health promotion in chronic illness with children, adolescents and families (5cr)

Objective

Students
• can apply evidence-based knowledge on family care, child/adolescent’s long-term health care and health promotion
• can identify resources and risk factors for the health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and families at both national and international level
• can assess the quality and effectiveness of resource-centred and multiprofessional family support and nursing
• can work in multiprofessional cooperation and refer families to different services
• can evaluate services in accordance with ethics and the principles of sustainable development

Content

• evidence-based care and health promotion for children and adolescents
• family resources and risk factors
• internal and external family structures and dynamics
• resources that support the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents and related risk factors
• multiprofessional networks, child protection, family support and nursing, 3rd sector, experts by experience
• ethics and sustainable development

Qualifications

Suitable for nurses, public health nurses, and midwives to deepen and update their skills, or for health sector university of applied sciences students who have already completed the relevant professional basic studies in their degree. The requirement for transitioning to advanced studies is approximately 120 credits or another specific reason agreed upon with a study counselor. Open university students should have equivalent knowledge (a corresponding course from another university of applied sciences or sufficient work experience as a nurse).

Further information

RPL 8/2025:
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is possible only if the student has a previous nursing degree or equivalent higher education studies leading to a nursing degree.