Time: Students can start their studies approximately within a week after enrolling on this course, except July. The estimated time for completing this course is three months. Next start 10.8.2021.
Place: Xamk Learn – digital learning environment
Extent: 5 ECTS cr
Number of study places: 40
Target group: All that are interested in this subject
Lecturer: South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences lecturer
Credited in degree: Degree Programme in Nursing
Enrolment by: 31.10.2021. This is a nonstop start and students can start their studies approximately within a week after enrolment.
Price: Free of charge
Please notice, that Xamk degree students cannot enrol on OUAS courses.
Learning outcomes:
On this online course you learn how wounds heal. You also apply the acquired knowledge in monitoring healing wounds.
Contents and methods:
The course consists of the structure and functions of the skin, the physiology of wound healing and the factors affecting it.
Completing the course requires two written evidence-based reports. The first one concerns the theory of wound healing and the factors affecting it. The second report is your assessment of wound healing based on the information studied for the first report.
Assessment: passed/failed
This course is based on the curricula of Xamk's degree programmes and the Finnish credits are fully compatible with the ECTS.
Additional information on enrolment:
Open University of Applied Sciences office, email openstudies@xamk.fi.
Terms of cancellation:
Cancellation has to be made 14 days before the course starts. Cancellation by email to openstudies@xamk.fi.
You'll receive an invitation by email to this course approx. one week before the course starts.