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Reproductive Health (4 cr)

Code: USS22KÅ02-3002

General information


Enrollment

15.06.2024 - 31.07.2024

Timing

19.08.2024 - 15.11.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

4 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Faculty of Health and Welfare

Teaching languages

  • Svenska

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing
  • Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing

Teachers

  • Pia Liljeroth

Teacher in charge

Pia Liljeroth

Groups

  • UHV22D-Å
    Hälsovårdare (YH), h22, dagstudier, Åbo
  • USS22D-Å
    Sjukskötare (YH), h22, dagstudier, Åbo

Objective

The student:
- can, in an inter-professional team plan, execute, evaluate, document and report person-centered/client-centered, sustainable care in collaboration with the patient and relatives and demonstrate a reflective and ethical approach in care
- has expertise in care in various service system
- can describe what sustainable sexual and reproductive health means in promoting individual and family health
- can describe the most common sexually transmitted diseases and their treatment
- can describe the course of normal pregnancy, the central and sustainable follow-up methods and the content of health care guidance
- can describe the course of a normal delivery and care methods
- knows the basics of following up and caring for the newly-delivered woman and the newborn during normal puerperium
- has knowledge of the breastfeeding recommendations and can act as support during breastfeeding

Content

The service system and various service environments

The care process, decision making, ethics

Aseptics, sustainable development

Participation of patients and relatives in care

Sexual and reproductive health and its promotion (central gynecological and andrological problems in relation to reproduction, prevention, infertility)

The most common sexually transmitted diseases

Follow-up, health care guidance and care during normal pregnancy

Follow-up and care during normal childbirth

Emergency delivery

Follow-up and care of the woman and the healthy newborn baby in the maternity ward

National breastfeeding recommendations and common breastfeeding problems

Evaluation scale

H-5

Qualifications

Courses Medical Management I and Medical Management II and Pharmacology, Surgical and Perioperative Care, Nursing in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care, Clinical Nursing