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Curriculum: Basic Nursing Education 2013/2014

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Module Description
Personal and Professional Development of a Nurse Objective(s)
To support the student’s personal development and the development of her or his knowledge and skills for working as a nurse in the health and social field.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Is able to communicate with patients/clients, their families and other team members and values the holistic approach to human health.
2. Knows a variety of learning methods, targeting and planning her or his own learning and is be able to analyze her or his learning skills and values of lifelong learning.
3. Knows the trends in international cooperation in the profession and values the nature of the international learning experience.
4. Knows the basic principles of functioning of the educational, social and health organizations in Estonia and Europe and has the ability to apply that knowledge both in learning and in professional work.
5. Knows and is able to apply, relying on team work, project work and business principles, appropriate ways to provide evidence-based nursing care services with the goal to support and promote community health.
6. On the provision of nursing care, is able to use her or his psychology, pedagogy, management and entrepreneurship related knowledge.
Foundations of Nursing Objective(s)
Creation of systematic knowledge of nursing and formation of readiness for the provision of nursing care based on systematic and consistent ethical principles.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Knows the basic concepts of nursing, foundations of nursing philosophy and theories of nursing.
2. Values the holistic approach to human values, family and patient/client focus.
3. Knows and appreciates the role of a nurse in health care and society.
4. Is able to implement process based nursing care, based on nursing theory and ethics while involving other professionals.
Clinical Nursing Objective(s)
Formation of clinical nursing knowledge and readiness for provision of high-quality nursing care.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Is able to define the patient/client's needs for nursing care, nursing problems, diagnoses and activities in the clinical nursing field on the basis of an evidence based approach.
2. Is cognizant of the patient/customer research methods implemented on clinical nursing and is able to prepare the patients for these.
3. Values the principles of team work and gives an assessment to the team work.
4. Can apply theory nursing theory in practice by identifying, planning, providing and evaluating nursing care based on the patient/clients needs.
5. Is able to implement patient-centered teaching techniques for the provision of nursing care.
6. Knows the limits of liability related to the nursing profession and critically evaluates her or his performance.
Children´s Nursing Objective(s)
To provide the knowledge of the principles of children's nursing and willingness to provide high quality nursing care for the healthy as well as for the sick child and her or his family.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Is able to assess the child's growth and development and the factors affecting them.
2. Is able to motivate children and their families to take responsibility for preserving and promoting their health, strength supplies and capacity.
3. Values the importance of individual responsibility in the nursing care of the child and her or his family.
4. Is able to consistently carry out nursing care for the child and the family in case of the most common children's diseases on the basis of the evidence base and the various principles of teamwork.
5. Is able to teach a child and her or his family and to critically analyze and evaluate the learning process.
Intensive Nursing Objective(s)
Shaping of knowledge and skills for provision of nursing care for critically ill patients and their loved ones.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Knows the basic concepts and areas of activities related to intensive care, war medicine and disaster medicine, the priorities of provision of intensive care and the methodology of major accident liquidation.
2. Is able to assess the nursing care needs of a critically ill patient/victim based on pathological processes that affect vital functions.
3. Is able to perform intensive nursing procedures and resuscitation with technical aids and to critically assess its impact.
4. Is able to cooperate with patients needing intensive nursing and with their loved ones based on the principles of patient/family centeredness and values the principles of team work.
5. Is able to plan and evaluate nursing activities according to individual patient needs and ethical principles; upon emergence of problems finds professional evidence-based solutions and reflects work and learning experiences.
Health Nursing Objective(s)
Knowing the principles of health nursing as a complete system and development of teamwork skills in promoting the health of people of all ages, preventing disease and maintaining health, valuing the client and family centeredness in society.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Knows the specific features of human development and health according to the stage of the life span.
2. Knows the basic concepts, work areas, work organization and development trends of health nursing as a system, implements family-centered nursing care in primary health care to patients/clients of any age upon prevention and mitigation of health problems.
3. Is able to formulate population health problems, finds evidence-based health promoting solutions to these, is able to reflect critically on the life and work environment and makes proposals for improving the environment.
4. Values the work ethic of a nurse and takes it into account when providing nursing care to the patient/clients and families and is able to perform team work in various fields of work in primary health care.
5. Is able to analyze the performance of the nursing care provided to the patient and/or the family and uses modern information technology tools at work.
Mental Health Nursing Objective(s)
Shaping the student's knowledge, skills and values for the provision of nursing care for people with mental health problems in the community and in health care institutions.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Is familiar with the psychosocial factors having impact on the mental health of a person and is able to find evidence-based solutions for reducing risk factors.
2. Knows the most common mental and behavioral problems.
3. Knows a variety of assessment methods of mental health and the specific nature of the nursing process of psychiatric nursing care and applies her or his knowledge on teaching the patient and her or his family following ethical principles.
4. Knows the psychopharmacology and biological treatment methods used in cases of the most common mental and behavioral disorders and is able to monitor the health status of the patient/client receiving treatment.
5. Is familiar with the legal acts governing the treatment and nursing care of people with mental disorders.
6. Knows different types of psychotherapy and therapeutic techniques of communication and the nurse's role and responsibilities in implementing the therapeutic processes in practice.
7. Knows the principles of the implementation of team work in psychiatric nursing care and cooperates with representatives of other professions.
Pharmacology Objective(s)
To provide an overview of the basic concepts of pharmacology, different forms of treatments and the ways of administration of drugs and to develop an understanding of mathematical calculation of dosing of drugs, of commonly used treatment groups, of medication use and of medication treatment related nursing care and to develop readiness for writing a prescription.
Learning outcomes
1. Knows the effects of medicinal products on the body and the determinants influencing the effects.
2. Knows the different formulations of medicines and ways of administration of medicines and describes the effects of a drug depending on the form of medicine and the way of administration of the medicine.
3. Is able to calculate drug doses.
4. Knows the most widely used groups of medicines, their pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, indications, contraindications, side effects and toxicity and their general therapeutic principles.
5. Knows the group specifics of those drug groups and is able to use them in nursing care.
6. Is able to use pharmacology-related reference books and manuals and online resources.
7. Is able to write prescriptions based on the nursing profession.
Optional subjects
Practical Training
Teaching of human anatomy and vital functions Objective(s)
Shaping of knowledge of the development, building and vital functions of a healthy and sick human body.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Knows the development, construction and operation of the human body and physiological and pathological processes regulating thereof and related key terms in Estonian and Latin.
2. Is able to explain the physiological processes in the body, based on the physical and biochemical processes occurring in the body.
3. Is able to explain the pathological processes caused by the vital functions of micro-organisms ongoing in the body.
Research and development methodology Objective(s)
1. To teach students to use evidence-based knowledge in the development of their profession, following the ethical principles.
2. Designing the knowledge of the principles and objectives of nursing research
3. Designing the knowledge of the theoretical and practical skills of preparing a research paper
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Knows the principles of scientific thinking, the basics of the research process and nursing scientific (including applied) research.
2. Is able to find topical information from research databases and analyzes professional research papers.
3. Is able to express correctly the Estonian language, both orally and in writing.
4. Knows the principles of drafting of a scientific text, compiles abstracts of an Estonian language text and translates English language professional literature.
5. Can duly execute written papers and the necessary documents.
6. Is able to recognize and articulate the problems arising from nursing practice and to find evidence-based solutions.
7. Knows the ethical views presented in research and is able to analyze the role of the researcher in the light of ethics.
Final Thesis Objective(s)
To shape the ability to conduct a research or development work on an actual topic of nursing based on research and development principles.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, the student:
1. Is able to formulate research and development issues and set tasks for solving the selected problem;
2. Is able to work with nursing literature and make reviews to the extent of the problems addressed;
3. Knows a variety of research methods and is able to choose the best method for her or his research;
4. Is able to collect and analyze data;
5. Is able to present the results of their work in the form of a report, to defend the proposed theses and to provide further explanations of the research compiled.
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