DIHMK25OUL Deaconess expertise in nursing (4 cr)
Code: DIH0104A20S-3006
General information
Enrollment
23.09.2024 - 13.10.2024
Timing
13.01.2025 - 09.03.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4 op
Virtual portion
2.5 op
Mode of delivery
38 % Contact teaching, 62 % Distance learning
Campus
Oulu
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 50
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
- Nina Niemelä
- Kirsi Laukkonen
Groups
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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