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DIH01MK23OUL Deaconess expertise in nursing (4 cr)

Code: DIH0104A20S-3001

General information


Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

09.01.2023 - 10.03.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

4 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 300

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing

Teachers

  • Mirva Heikkilä-Tyni
  • Kirsi Laukkonen

Groups

  • I48shd

Objective

Students
• apply methods of pastoral care and spiritual guidance in a versatile way
• know how to identify and help customers and families in need of special support and at risk of marginalisation
• are familiar with and know how to use helping methods of diaconal nursing in a customer- and community-oriented manner
• know how to act as a specialist of diaconal nursing in multidisciplinary working groups, work communities and networks
• can evaluate their own actions as a social advocate and a promoter of citizens’ health and wellbeing

Content

• being disadvantaged, life situations causing the need for special support
• multidisciplinary collaboration
• the student’s personal spirituality and calling
• health maintenance and promotion as well as social advocacy
• professional ethics, diaconal nursing expertise, theology of helping
• diaconal nursing helping methods in hospital and institutional environments
• pastoral care and tools of spiritual guidance