PHHMK24POR Palliative and spiritual nursing (5 cr)
Code: PHH0005A20S-3029
General information
Enrollment
11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023
Timing
08.01.2024 - 12.05.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning
Campus
Pori
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 333
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Mirva Heikkilä-Tyni
- Ella Eronen-Levonen
Groups
-
F53sh
- 10.01.2024 08:30 - 14:00, PHH / Aloitus ja luento 1
- 19.01.2024 08:00 - 08:30, PHH Oppiportin verkkokurssin palautus 19.1
- 23.01.2024 08:30 - 11:45, PHH / Luento 2
- 24.01.2024 12:30 - 15:45, PHH / Luento 3
- 26.01.2024 08:00 - 08:30, PHH verkkokeskustelu päättyy 26.1.
- 29.01.2024 08:00 - 08:30, PHH kirjallisen seminaarityön suunnitelman palautus 29.1.
- 02.02.2024 12:30 - 13:15, PHH / Seminaaritehtävän ohjaus
- 13.02.2024 08:30 - 11:45, PHH / Luento 5
- 14.02.2024 12:30 - 15:45, PHH / Itsenäinen työskentely
- 05.03.2024 12:00 - 15:15, PHH / "Kokemuskouluttaja"
- 30.04.2024 08:00 - 08:30, PHH kirjallisen seminaarityön lopullinen palautus 30.4.
- 07.05.2024 08:30 - 15:45, PHH / Seminaari
- 12.05.2024 08:00 - 08:30, PHH kirjallisen yksilötehtävän palautus 12.5.
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