Empowering Patient Education
Empowering Patient Education Course (25 ECTs)
Empowering Patient Education -project has arranged since 2008 education designed for Finnish and international master and PhD -students in nursing and health sciences as well as for health care professionals working in nursing practice. The education includes Empowering Patient Education Course (25 ECTS). The international course Empowering Patient Education is arranged in spring 2011 and it contains five modules that are held in three parts.
Students and teachers in 2011. There were students from Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland
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Skillful Patient Educator Course (6 ECTS)
The course is arranged with the Hospital District of Southwest Finland, Satakunta Hospital District and with Turku Municipal Health Care and Social Services. The education is designed for health care professionals working in health care practice. The course aims at developing empowering patient education in health care practice. The teaching methods include lectures, supervision meetings and completion of written patient education material. Empowering Patient Education -project of the Department of Nursing Science is responsible for teaching. The students develop written empowering patient education material for their own unit.
Patient Education Symposium (0,5 ECTS)
Symposium is arranged twice a year with the Hospital District of Southwest Finland and Satakunta Hospital District. The current practices and new innovations are presented as well as outcomes of patient education are evaluated in symposium. The education is designed for health care professionals, leaders, master and PhD-students, teachers and researchers in nursing and health sciences.
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