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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

  • I52shd

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