BACHELOR · Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing TopUp
Arcada University of Applied Sciences · Helsinki, Finland
What competencies does the graduate have? A nurse is a nursing expert, whose duty in society is to implement and develop nursing, which promotes and maintains health, prevents and heals diseases, and rehabilitates. A nurse is able to utilise nursing research skills when planning, implementing, evaluating and developing nursing. In addition, nursing skills require a multidisciplinary knowledge base, such as an up-to-date theoretical knowledge of medical science and pharmacology, as well as of social and behavioural sciences. A nurse works with individuals, families and communities in different life situations. A nurse provides nursing care to people of different ages and their close relatives when they face illness, disability and death at different ages. A nurse also cares for dying patients in hospice care and supports their loved ones. Education of nurses is based on the Professional Qualifications Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council, which defines the core skills of a nurse responsible for general care (180 ECTS). The professional expertise of a nurse is defined nationally and it consists of the following areas: Professionalism and ethics; Customer orientation; Communication and multiprofessionalism; Health promotion; Management and skills in being an employee; Information technology and recording; Guidance and teaching expertise and support for self-care; Clinical nursing; Evidence-based activities, utilisation of research data, and decision-making; Entrepreneurship and development; Quality assurance; Social and health care service system; and Patient and customer safety.
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