EPE Education
Empowering patient education group arranges educational courses:
International education:
Empowering Patient Education Course (25 ECTS)
Empowering Patient Education -project arrange education designed for international and Finnish 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 yearly since 2008 and it contains five modules.
Empowering Patient Education Project leaders, Professor Helena Leino-Kilpi and Professor Sanna Salanterä were awarded the Producer Price of Learning Material by Faculty of Medicine in 2012 for Empowering Patient Education Course.
Aims
The course aims at describing the theoretical and methodological basis for empowering patient education from the perspectives of patient, personnel, health care organization and society, deepening understanding of analyzing and implementing and doing research of the empowering patient education, and making judgements about empowering patient education in clinical settings and research.
Course contains
Interactive online periods
- Orientaton and conceptual basis of empowering patient education (5 ects)
- Diagnostics in empowering patient education (5 ects)
- Patient education as an empowering patient education intervention (5 ects)
- Evaluation of empowering patient education (5 ects)
- Special issues in empowering patient education research (5 ects)
Contact period in Turku
Contact period includes lectures, seminars, written assignment or social events.
EPE course 2019 started in September.
Student comments
Some comments from previous EPE-course participants who have been from various countries:
Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA.
Theoretical issues
“I thought the course would be only on the concept of empowerment. I have been very positively surprised.”
“This knowledge significantly expanded my understanding of EPE. During this course I got some good ideas to my own research.”
“I think I need more information about methods/strategies used in empowering patient education.”
“The lecture about outcomes of empowering patient education is so important that it should be longer.”
Learning issues
“Course challenged my academic thinking and expanded my command of knowledge.”
“The learning happened during the lectures and discussions. Deep learning happened every day when we were present here.”
“It opened my head for new ideas, new perspectives in patient care. Thnak you for offering the course!”
“Corresponded exactly with my gods. This is the kind of learning that is claiming in my country.”
“My institute of nursing science and my hospital do not have structured programs in patient education, but the Department of Nursing Science of University of Turku has a very strong expertise in it.”
“Learning takes of writing a review. I learned a lot!! Really effective. Very good – very supported.”
“I developed a lot of ideas but they are circle around in a confusion manner in my brain and I still hope to get my patient education program designed.”
Practical issues
“All was executed according to the plan. As a foreign student I got information and plans about lodging and the University.””An excellent course, highly organised with excellent resources provided”
“Excellent to have everything on Moodle (literature, presentations)”
“Education environment Moodle was used and it was very useful forum for communicating with other students and stuff.”
“It was easy to contact the lecturers and the Professors of the Department of Nursing Science. They responded quickly if I had some problems.”
International collaboration issues
“We got to know each other very well. I liked very much that there were also international students. It was nice to go together for dinner and so on.”
“There has planned specific moments to the course that we could interact with other students.”
“Very much good-will between students from different countries – helpfulness and friendliness”
“The group came very close.”
National education:
Skilled Patient Educator Course (6 ECTS)
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. The students develop written empowering patient education material for their own unit. The education is designed for health care professionals working in health care practice. Empowering Patient Education -programme of the Department of Nursing Science is responsible for teaching. The course is arranged with the Hospital District of Southwest Finland, Satakunta Hospital District and with Turku Health Care Services.
For the students taken the Skilled Patient Educator Course, Learning Café evens and other social events have been arranged.
Patient Education Symposium (0,5 ECTS)
The current practices and new innovations of patient education 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. Symposium is arranged regularly with the Hospital District of Southwest Finland and Satakunta Hospital District.
Expertice in teaching
Helena Leino-Kilpi, Professor, PhD, RN, FEANS
Patient education
Empowering patient education
Researching patient education
Ethics of patient education
Sanna Salanterä, Professor, PhD, RN, FEANS
Patient education
Empowering patient education
Evidence based patient education
Written patient education
Effective patient education methods
Patient education of children
Researching patient education
Kirsi Valkeapää (ex Johansson), Title of docent, PhD, RN
Patient education
Orthopaedic nursing
Surgical nursing
Research methods/methodological issues especially surveys
Questionnaire studies
Quasiexperimental and experimental study design
Heli Virtanen, PhD, RN
Empowering patient education
Empowering discourse between a patient and a nurse
Learning needs of surgical patient
Requirement of a good written educational material
Evaluation of written patient education material
Learning of patient education in nursing education
Virtual patient simulation in learning of patient education
Computer-assisted simulation in nursing education
Metasummary
Anne Ryhänen, PhD, RT
Patient education
Empowering patient education
Empowering patient education cancer patient
Patient education written educational material
Patient education of radiological imaging patient
Internet based patient education among cancer patients
Heli Vaartio-Rajalin, PhD, RN
Patient advocacy
Empowering patient education in pain care
Empowering patient education in cancer care
Concept analysis
Drawings in patient education
Mervi Siekkinen, PhD, RT
Patient education
Radiotherapy
E-education of breast cancer patients
Empowering patient education
Health promotion
Knowledge test development
Jukka Kesänen, PhD, RN
Patient education
Empowering patient education
Orthopaedic Nursing
Day-surgical nursing and Critical care nursing
Arja Pekonen, MNSc, RN, PhD-candidate
Patient education
Orthopaedic nursing
Follow-up study designs
Educational methods
Internet-based patient education methods
Empowering Internet-based patient education program
Empowering Internet-based patient education programme was created aiming to cognitively empower ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients. Ambulatory patients possibilities to become cognitively empowered can be increased with the help of cognitively empowering Internet-based education. It can be recommended as an alternative to the face-to-face education method for ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients.
- Empowering Internet-based patient education program is published in extranet of the Hospital District of Southwest Finland
- Publications based on this method
- Contacts: Katja Heikkinen, Principal Investigator, RN, PhD
Internet-based breast cancer patient’s pathway program (BCPP)
Internet-based breast cancer patient’s pathway program (BCPP) was developed to evaluate the effect of the BCPP to the breast cancer patient’s empowerment by using the patient pathway as a patient education tool. The Internet seems to be an effective patient education tool for increasing knowledge, and BCPP can be used as a patient education method supporting other education methods
- Internet-based breast cancer patient’s pathway is published in extranet of the Hospital District of Southwest Finland (in Finnish).
- Publications based on this method
- Contacts: Anne Ryhänen, Principal Investigator, RT PhD
Concept mapping method
Concept mapping method in patient education
The concept mapping method has been originally developed into teaching use for teaching and learning method, and for assessment of learning (Noval 1984). We have used the concept map method in patient and nurse education.
In patient education, the concept map method was studied in preadmission education of orthopaedic patients prior to hospital admission in education discussion. The concept map method seems to be useful in identification of the orthopaedic patient’s previous and current understanding about care-related issues and concentrate to issues on which the patient has no previous knowledge but which are relevant to his/her situation.
- Publications based on this method: Empowering orthopaedic patients through education. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Series Medica-Odontologica D 728. University of Turku.
- Contacts: Kirsi Valkeapää (ex Johansson), Principal Investigator, Adjunct Professor, RN, PhD
Concept mapping method in nurse education
In nurse education, the concept map method was studied as an assessment method of learning of empowering discourse. The method was used so that a student draw a concept map on their knowledge before and after learning session. The studies are under a reporting process and reports are available later.
- Contacts: Heli Virtanen, Principal Investigator, RN, Phd
Knowledge test – Feedback
- Contacts: Mervi Siekkinen, PhD