Study Guide

Objective

You are able to apply evidence-based data in surgical and perioperative nursing.
You understand the specificities of surgical and perioperative patient care paths and treatment.
You are able to apply your knowledge of the main diseases that require surgical treatment at different stages of the treatment process.
You know the main interventions of surgical and perioperative nursing.
You are able to apply methods that promote patient and occupational safety.
You know how to prevent complications and promote rehabilitation.
You have command of aseptic activity in your own practices and your team’s work as well as in patient care.
You are able to apply pharmacotherapy to treat surgical and perioperative patients using applied pharmacology.
You know how to implement pain management for a surgical, perioperative and palliative patient.
You apply guidance and teaching methods in surgical nursing.
You are able to document nursing data in accordance with the national nursing record system.

Content

How do you apply evidence-based data in the care of a surgical and perioperative patient?
How does the patient's treatment path progress after a decision to operate has been made?
What are the most common surgically treatable diseases and injuries?
What are the goals and functions of nursing interventions in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases of nursing?
How is the patient's operability ascertained?
How is the patient prepared for surgery?
What are the different tasks of a nurse in an operating room?
How is intraoperative nursing implemented?
How is postoperative nursing implemented?
How are postoperative complications caused, and how are they prevented and treated?
How is patient and occupational safety ensured during different phases of the surgical process?
How do you systematically assess the patient's condition during the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative stages of treatment?
How is asepsis taken into account and implemented during the various stages of surgical treatment?
How is the pharmacotherapy of a surgical and perioperative patient planned, implemented and evaluated?
How is pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management for a surgical and palliative patient planned, implemented, and evaluated?
How do you guide the patient and engage him or her in self-care?
How do you systematically report and document according to national guidelines?
What do you document using the ISBAR model? How do you use the ISBAR model to report and consult?

Opiskelumateriaali

Learn includes the minimum material.

You can use these materials to support your learnin process.
-UEF-lääketieteen luennot
-Oppiportti/oppikirjat/Kirurgia, Kipu, Anestesiologian ja tehohoitotyön perusteet, Gastroenterologia ja hepatologia, Peruselintoimintojen häiriöt ja niiden hoito
-Oppiportti/Verkkokoulutukset: Alipaineimulaitteet, Imu-laitteet, Kirurginen polttolaite, Kannettavat lääkeannostelijat, Potilaslämmittimet, Nesteen- ja verenlämmittimet
-Terveysportti: Sairaanhoitajan käsikirja, Anestesiahoitotyön käsikirja
-Käypähoitosuositukset (Best practice quidelines)

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

-Students who meet the prerequisites are added to the learn platform and they are instructed via Peppi from the start of the course.
-You are allowed to study independently.
-We recommend studying the subjects according to the study schedule.
-Notice that the learn exams must be done before the clinical practice week at school.
-Theory lessons (teams or live) are not mandatory
-Clinical skills practices and evaluation are mandatory
-The format of the exam is dialogue exam

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

1) An alumni working in the operating room during the study period is available via the Padlet message wall and chat.
2) A familiarization visit to working life (operating room) is carried out (if the corona restrictions are ongoing, the implementation is virtual-live)
3) Case and skill exercises brought from working life strongly support the understanding and application of theory in practice.
4) Clinical practice 1 continues with the guidance of alumni and other professionals after completing this theory.

Tentit ja muut määräajat

1) All practice exams (learn) must be done before training week. If you haven`t done those exams you are not allowed to participate.
2) If there is surgeon's lecture, it will be mandatory. If you are unable to participate you will have to write an essey.
3) Theory evaluation is Dialogue -test (0-5), after training week
4) Competence assessment: fail-pass, after the training week
Retest: Theory, exam essee, Clinical skills, individual clinical skills evaluation

Kansainvälinen yhteistyö

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Opiskelijan työmäärä

27h x 5 theory
27h x 2 Clinical skills
A more detailed timetable can be found in learn

Toteutuksen osien kuvaus

Theory 5 credits
-includes independent study and theory teaching in theory workshops (themes of the workshops: pre- and postoperative nursing, pain, complications, anaesthesia, perioperative nursing, surgical specialties, review, dialogue exam

Exercises/Clinical skills 2 credits
-H1 clinical manual skills and operating room process -case
-H2 pain treatment + simulations, clinical skills + case work
-H3 Surgical patient treatment path -case
-H4 Complication simulations, medical resuscitation
- Competence assessment

Further information

-Students who meet the prerequisites are added to the learn platform and they are instructed via Peppi from the start of the course.
-Classroom teaching and training is mandatory

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Learn training exams must be done before the training week.
GENERAL EVALUATION CRITERIA
5 = almost complete answer, justification and understanding of context appear in the answer, good additions to colleagues' answers
4 = a little to be completed in the answer, the answer has tried to tie things together and find cause-effect relationships, additions to the colleague's answers
3 = answer core issues, little reasoning, no factual errors, little complementary answers
2 = illogical answer with few correct things, little justification, no life-threatening factual errors, few additions
1 = individual real issues for which no justification, answer one-sided, few additions, if any
0 = just some right things or participating in a conversation with little or no information
Retest: Retest in the exam as an essay exam. The 1st renewal can be done immediately, the 2nd renewal no earlier than 1 month after the previous assessment.