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PHHMK24HKI-SH-LH Palliative and spiritual nursing (5 cr)

Code: PHH0005A20S-3022

General information


Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

12.02.2024 - 31.03.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 300

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care

Teachers

  • Virve Valkeavuori
  • Pirkko Natri

Groups

  • A54sh-lh
  • 15.02.2024 09:00 - 14:30, PHH / Info ja luento ZOOM
  • 26.02.2024 08:30 - 11:30, PHH / Luento
  • 27.02.2024 08:30 - 11:30, PHH / Luento
  • 28.02.2024 08:30 - 11:30, PHH / Luento, ZOOM
  • 04.03.2024 08:00 - 09:00, PHH / Itsenäinen työskentely: Seminaaritehtävä
  • 14.03.2024 11:00 - 12:15, PHH / Seminaaritehtävän ohjaus
  • 15.03.2024 12:30 - 15:30, PHH / Luento
  • 28.03.2024 08:30 - 15:30, PHH / Seminaari

Objective

Students
- understand the value basis and principles of palliative and end-of-life care
- understand the different meanings of individual and community spirituality as well as nursing activities that promote coping and spiritual wellbeing
- know how to implement customer-oriented and symptom-based humane nursing to a patient who is terminally ill or dying and support their immediate circle
- know how to identify and encounter the patient’s and their immediate circle’s emotional, existential and spiritual needs in various life situations and utilise pastoral helping methods
- know how to plan multidisciplinary collaboration and network to support the patient’s and their immediate circle’s life management and quality of life
- know how to utilise third-sector services and activities in a customer-oriented manner in palliative nursing and when considering spiritual needs
- know how to apply current social services and healthcare programmes
- know how to assess and develop their readiness to encounter and help a dying patient and their immediate circle
- reflect on their worldview and relationship to spirituality and the effect they have when encountering patients in a holistic manner
- are familiar with national and international research on the topic

Content

- palliative nursing and end-of-life care: central concepts, values and principles
- view of humans, spiritual needs, spiritual wellbeing and malaise
- customer-orientation and treatment of symptoms
- central matters in an end-of-life treatment plan, advance directive
- signs of impending death
- multidisciplinary collaboration, service coordination and third sector
- current measure programmes
- assistance methods within nursing and pastoral care in end-of-life care
- supporting the patient’s immediate circle
- student’s readiness to support the spirituality of an individual and community
- current national and international research data

Further information

The study module includes 1 ECTS of church studies (The professional basis of diaconal work and Christian education)

Evaluation scale

0-5