Operative nursing (5 cr)
Code: VV00EJ21-3002
General information
Enrollment
23.08.2021 - 29.08.2021
Timing
13.09.2021 - 31.12.2021
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3 - 5
Virtual portion
5 op
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Unit
Yhteisten opintojen koulutusyksikkö
Campus
Mikkeli Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 50
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
- Päivi Sajaniemi
Teacher in charge
Päivi Sajaniemi
Groups
-
VV2021-2022Optional studies 2021-2022
Objective
3 credit points:
- Understanding the importance of theory and evidence-based information in surgical patients’ interoperative care
- Knowing the appropriate procedures required to ensure patient safety in surgical patients’ interoperative care
- Understanding the instrumental and monitoring nurse tasks, as well as understanding how to operate as a member of the surgical team in an operating theater.
5 credit points:
- Ability to utilise theories and evidence-based information in surgical patients’ interoperative care
- Mastery of patient safety practices required during surgical patients’ interoperative care
- Ability to operate as the instrumental and monitoring nurse in operating theatre
- Ability to describe surgical stages of general surgery, gastroenterologic, gynecologic or orthopedic surgery from the instrumental nurse’s perspective
Completion of 5-credit point course permits surgical work during the internship.
Content
- Care environment and safety
- Aseptic processes and sterile environment
- Optimal surgery position
- Basics of tissue handling and instrumenting
- Sutures
- Tourniquet
Evaluation scale
Approved/Failed