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Policlinical and Acute NursingLaajuus (15 cr)

Course unit code: S25C502

General information


Credits
15 cr

Objective

You understand the areas of responsibilities of nursing in acute and emergency care You can coordinate your expertice for the benefit of patient Your tenchnical and technological skills grow You expand your medical knowledge in your area of responsibility

Content

What are the priciples, access to care and the treatment process in acute and emergency nursing? How the division of responsibility and co-operation work in emergency nursing? What acts lead emergency nursing? What is the nursing care in emergency department like? How to evaluate the need and urgency of care? How to recognize emergency patient, to start care and safeguard the basic vital signs? How to evaluate and observe abruptly sick, critically sick and multi-trauma patient with nursing methods? How to apply medical care of emergency patient? How to council abruptly sick patient and his family from different cultures? How to document nursing care in acute and emergency nursing? How to prepare for emergency conditions? What is ethic in acute and emergency care?  

Qualifications

Basics of nursing Promotion of wellbeing and health Nursing in different health care settings Family and community nursing

Assessment criteria, good (3)

c. work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field d. evaluate operations in customer, user and target group  situations e. choose appropriate models, methods, software anf tachniques to the purpose and justify these choises. f,  promote team`s goal-oriented operation g. apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations

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