Acute care nursingLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You will be able to identify acute illness requiring treatment and acute medical conditions in nursing. You know how to take care of acute medical care, activities and assist the acute care treatment of the most common procedures. You are familiar with the acutely ill patient's condition, symptoms and treatment of the impact assessment.

Content

How do you assess acutely ill patient's condition? How to act in caring for trauma cases, poisoning patients infected, sudden coronary artery disease, of different ages suffering from respiratory failure, sudden gastroenterological or neurological disease infected patients. What do you do relaunching the different ages of patients? How do you pay attention to ethical issues in acute care?

Qualifications

Medical nursing Surgical and perioperative nursing Mental health and substance abuse nursing Family nursing

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Assessment guidelines graduate-level (level 3) a. You can use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations. b. You can evaluate information sources critically. e. You can choose appropriate models and methods according to the purpose and justify these choices. f. You can promote teams’ goal-oriented operation. g. You can apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.