COMPETENCES CATALOGUE

Occupation title: Health Care Assistant
Qualification title: Clinical nursing and care

Occupation code: JEK 4

UNITS OF LEARNING OUTCOMES CATALOGUE

No.	Unit of learning outcomes
Unit
Unit-1	Abiding with the values, principles and regulations concerning the field of social and health care
Unit-2	Drawing up, as a team member, a client-based written plan, promoting the nursing and care of the client or patient
Unit-3	Assessing the client or patient`s resources with him/her and supports him/her in promoting health and well-being
Unit-4	Monitoring, maintaining and promoting a client or patient`s vital functions and tending to clients or patients who suffer from different diseases
Unit-5	Helping and supporting clients or patients to manage their daily activities independently
Unit-6	Preparing, assisting or performing treatments and examinations
Unit-7	Carrying out pharmacotherapy
Unit-8	Guiding the client or patient and his/her family in pharmacotherapy and nutrition
Unit-9	Promoting the client or patient`s psychosocial coping and supporting his/her coping with social problems
Unit-10	Instructing clients and patients in the use of social and health care services.
Unit-11	Choosing the tools, materials and equipment for his/her work, avoiding work-related health hazards and complying with occupational health and safety instructions
Unit-12	Exploiting his/her language skills in customer service
Unit-13	Planning the productization of his/her competence
Unit-14	Developing his/her action on the basis of given feedback and assessing his/her own competence

LEARNING OUTCOMES CATALOGUE for UNITS OF LEARNING OUTCOMES

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-1: Abiding with the values, principles and regulations concerning the field of social and health care

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Justifies his/her actions with the rights and obligationsin the collective labour agreement concerning practical nurses. In his/her work, demonstrates his/her knowledge on how to draw up job application documents and employment contracts.
2	Works cost-efficiently and complies with the quality recommendations of the setting.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-2: Drawing up, as a team member, a client-based written plan, promoting the nursing and care of the client or patient

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Recognises the client or patient`s needs for nursing, care, services and rehabilitation, in a client- and resource-based manner when drawing up a plan.
2	Draws up a plan according to the nursing classification or plan of the relevant operational unit. Implements and assesses the plan according to given instructions and perceives his/her work as a whole.
3	Works in a systematic and goal-oriented manner, and works flexibly in recurrent daily situation.
4	As a team member, answers for the documentation of client or patient records so as to materialise the quality of nursing and care work, as well as the rights of the client or patient and the employee.
5	Communicates in a matter of-fact manner, both orally and in writing.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-3: Assessing the client or patient`s resources with him/her and supports him/her in promoting health and well-being

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Meets the client or patient professionally and promotes the client or patient`s well-being through interaction and acts in a responsible and cooperative manner.
2	In his/her work, considers the needs and justifies his/her actions of clients or patients from different cultures and religions.
3	Works according to the principles of terminal care and supports a dying patient`s family in their grief work.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-4: Monitoring, maintaining and promoting a client or patient`s vital functions and tending to clients or patients who suffer from different diseases

No.	Learning outcomes
1	As a team member, carries out nursing and care of client or patients suffering from the most common medical-surgical diseases, infections, neurological diseases,cancer and skin diseases as well as memory disorders.
2	Recognises the client or patient`s pain and uses different methods to relieve it.
3	Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge about the promotion of health and well-being, body structure and functioning, vital functions, diseases, social technology and social problems.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-5: Helping and supporting clients or patients to manage their daily activities independently

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Helps and supports clients pursuant to a rehabilitative approach.
2	Recognises the client or patient`s need for aid-devices and guides them in getting and using aid-devices.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-6: Preparing, assisting or performing treatments and examinations

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Prepares, assists or performs treatments (e.g. wound care, catheter insertion, tube feeding, intensive oral and foot care, stoma, and small surgical procedures) and examinations (e.g. ECG and blood sample), considering the client or patient`s special characteristics.
2	Prepares the client or patient for examination, treatment or surgery, partly on his/her own, and afterwards tends to the client or patient`s basic care.
3	Complies with the principles of aseptics.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-7: Carrying out pharmacotherapy

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Handles, dispenses and administers pharmaceuticals correctly and safely.
2	Monitors the effects and combined effects of pharmaceuticals and recognizes the most common side and adverse effects and relays this information to his/her multi-disciplinary team.
3	Justifies his/her actions in the different pharmacotherapeutic assignments with his/her knowledge of diseases, groups and types of pharmaceuticals, ways of administering the pharmaceuticals, signs of abuse of medication, as well as regulations on pharmacotherapy.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-8: Guiding the client or patient and his/her family in pharmacotherapy and nutrition

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Guides the client or patient and his/her family in the use, storage and disposal of medicines and in renewing prescriptions.
2	Finds out about a client or patient`s eating habits (incl. the amount of alcohol intake) and looks after the client or patient`s nutrition and guides the client or patient towards wholesome nutrition.
3	Recognises some special nutritional aspects of different clients or patients and assesses client or patient`s nutritional status and acts accordingly.
4	Justifies his/her own actions with his/her knowledge of special diets.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-9: Promoting the client or patient`s psychosocial coping and supporting his/her coping with social problems

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Cooperates with family caregivers and other psychosocial resources and social networks in order to promote well-being.
2	As a team member, supports a client or patient and his/ her family in coping with social problems and intervenes as early as possible.
3	Encounters clients or patients whose behaviour are threatening, and applies the principles of his/her work community in such cases.
4	Recognises a client or patient or his/her family`s mental health or substance abuse problems and supports them in preventing and lessening the evils and relays this information to his/her multi-disciplinary team.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-10: Instructing clients and patients in the use of social and health care services.

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Recognitions a client or patient`s need for social and health care services and guides him/her to use appropriate services.
2	Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge of the social and health care service system and service providers, as well as of relief benefits.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-11: Choosing the tools, materials and equipment for his/her work, avoiding work-related health hazards and complying with occupational health and safety instructions

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Acts according to the principles of sustainable development and the opportunities provided by the setting, and uses the equipment and materials carefully and economically.
2	Works in an ergonomically correct way and prevents work-related accidents and injuries.
3	Looks after his/her own work ability and promotes his/her occupational health and well-being.
4	Complies with the occupational health and safety regulations, as well as with the electric and fire safety regulations of his/ her workplace and prevents work-related health hazards. Maintains, for his/her own part, a good working atmosphere.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-12: Exploiting his/her language skills in customer service

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Manages service situations in Finnish or Swedish as well as in one foreign language and manages tolerably well in the other domestic language.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-13: Planning the productization of his/her competence

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Plans and finds out in his/ her work about the possibilities to productise one`s competence.
2	His/her work, exploits his/ her knowledge on entrepreneurship in his/her own field, the productization of one`s competence and acts according to the principles of internal entrepreneurship.

Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-14: Developing his/her action on the basis of given feedback and assessing his/her own competence

No.	Learning outcomes
1	Accepts and gives feedback in a matter-of-fact manner and develops his/her action on the basis of given feedback and assesses his/her learning and competence. Asks for guidance when needed.
2	Makes independent decisions related to his/her work and solves problems and acquires further information to back up his/her decisions.