PHHMK24OUL Palliative and spiritual nursing (5 cr)
Code: PHH0005A20S-3025
General information
Enrollment
11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023
Timing
15.01.2024 - 07.04.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning
Campus
Oulu
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 333
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Nina Niemelä
- Niina Patronen
Scheduling groups
- pienryhmä 1 (Size: 4. Open UAS: 0.)
- pienryhmä 2 (Size: 4. Open UAS: 0.)
- pienryhmä 3 (Size: 4. Open UAS: 0.)
- pienryhmä 4 (Size: 4. Open UAS: 0.)
- pienryhmä 5 (Size: 4. Open UAS: 0.)
- pienryhmä 6 (Size: 4. Open UAS: 0.)
- pienryhmä 7 (Size: 4. Open UAS: 0.)
- pienryhmä 8 (Size: 4. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
I53sh
Small groups
- pienryhmä 1
- pienryhmä 2
- pienryhmä 3
- pienryhmä 4
- pienryhmä 5
- pienryhmä 6
- pienryhmä 7
- pienryhmä 8
- 17.01.2024 08:30 - 14:00, PHH / Info ja aloitusluento
- 19.01.2024 08:30 - 11:45, PHH / Luento
- 05.02.2024 08:30 - 11:45, PHH / Luento
- 05.02.2024 12:30 - 15:45, PHH / Luento
- 05.02.2024 16:00 - 16:45, PHH / Seminaaritehtävän ohjaus
- 07.02.2024 08:30 - 11:45, PHH / Luento
- 23.02.2024 08:30 - 11:45, PHH / Seminaari
- 23.02.2024 12:30 - 15:45, 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