Study Guide

Objective

Nursing interventions

You understand your professional responsibilities and obligations and your actions promote patient safety.
You are able to create a good patient care relationship.
You are able to systematically monitor and evaluate the patient's well-being.
You have the basic knowledge of and the skills to carry out the key diagnostic tests needed in nursing.
You are able to respond to the need for care with nursing interventions and to document the process by entering structured nursing data using the FinCC system.
You are able to implement rehabilitation-promoting treatment and to work ergonomically.
You are able to implement the principles of safe pharmacotherapy.
You master the key principles of pain monitoring and assessment.
You are able to report according to the ISBAR protocol.
You master the basics of resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator.
You are able to encounter and care for a dying patient and support his or her close relations.
You recognize the signs of impending death and know how to prepare the deceased.

Aseptic practices in nursing

You know the principles of infection control and are able to apply your knowledge when practicing infection control.
You know the disadvantages of infections at the individual level.
You know the economic impact of infections on society.

Ergonomics

You know the legislation related to nursing ergonomics and know how to act accordingly.
You are capable of functioning in a customer-oriented manner in an aid situation.
You understand the principles of nursing that promote rehabilitation and know how to implement them in your work.
You are able to take into account environmental safety and risks in relocation and relief situations.
You are able to report and document the patient's assistance situation from the perspective of the patient’s functional status.

Documentation

You are able to document structured data in a manner that is analogous with the nursing process.
You are able to enter nursing data into the FinCC system to classify nursing diagnoses (FiCND), nursing interventions (FiCNI) and nursing outcomes (FiCNO)

Content

Nursing interventions

How do you encounter the patient / client in nursing situations and create a good patient care relationship?
How do you use the ABCDE protocol to assess patient well-being?
How do you use the NEWS criteria in the early detection of vital organ dysfunctions?
How do you document according to the ISBAR protocol?
How do you carry out nursing need assessments, nursing diagnosis, planning and implementation, and the evaluation of outcomes?
What are the theoretical foundations of central primary care and nursing interventions?
What are the theoretical foundations of central diagnostic studies?
What are the key methods for monitoring and assessing pain?
What are the fundamentals of basic resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator?
How do you encounter a dying patient and their close relations?
How do you carry out nursing care for a dying patient and prepare the deceased?

Aseptic practices in nursing

What are the pathogenic mechanisms of infectious diseases, the body's defense system and the means of preventing infectious diseases?
What are the principles of aseptic practices, standard precautions and precautionary measures?
What are the disadvantages and economic implications of infections at the individual and societal level?

Ergonomics

What is the legislation pertaining to nursing ergonomics and how do you comply with it?
How do you assess the patient's functional status and resources in an assistance situation?
How do you choose a safe method of assistance and the necessary assistive devices according to the patient's functional status?
What are the principles of rehabilitation nursing and how do you implement them?
How do you take the surroundings into account when considering safety and risks in relocation and relief situations?
How do you document and record the patient's assistance situation from a functional status perspective?

Documentation

How do you document the planning, implementation and evaluation of the treatment process in a customer-oriented manner?
How do you enter structured nursing data using the FinCC classification system (FiCND, FiCNI, FiCNO) and how do you enter free-form text? ?

Materials

Matherial in Learn.

Books:
Rautava-Nurmi H.,Westergård A., Henttonen T., Ojala M. & Vuorinen, S. 2012. or newer. Hoitotyön taidot ja toiminnot. SanomaPro: Helsinki

Veli-Jukka Anttila, Mari Kanerva, Maria Kuronen. 2018. Hoitoon liittyvien infektioiden torjunta.THL.

Preclinical training:
Practising is based on all the theoretical material on this course.

Teaching methods

Clinical nursing
Theory-studies at school and on-line 6 studypoints
Preclinical training at school 4 studypoints

Preclinical training is part of obligatory clinical training for EU-nurses. Every lesson is obligatory.
All the subjects are found from Learn-study-module.

Ergonomics-card gives you recognition of prior learning.

Employer connections

Clinical nursing 1 includes preclinical training (3 sp nursing, 1 sp ergonomy) at school.

Preclinical training subjects:
Aseptic performance
Ergonomics
Basic care
Wound care
Cathetrization and function of bowels
Nutrition and naso-gastric tube
Breathing
Circulation
Evaluation of a patient
Medical care
Fluid balance and care
Blood sampling
Hospice care

Ergonomy:

Exam schedules

Exam of basics of clinical training.

Evaluation of learning in practical skills: 1 hour/student

International connections

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Student workload

Theory: workload 6 x 27h = 162 h

Preclinical training: workload 3 x 16h = 48 h. 7 practical training-days and evaluation of learning. 1 extra day for extra practising. Opportunity to practise independantly at school.

Ergonomics: workload 1 x 16h

Content scheduling

Self-acting studying and lectures, exam at the end. Self-acting studing. Evaluation 1-5 / fail.

Preclinical training: 8 obligatory practical days at school + evaluation of learning.

Ergonomics.

Further information

Ergonomics: Satu Sällilä, satu.sallila@xamk.fi
Clinical care: Marjo Piispa, marjo.piispa@xamk.fi

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam 70% has to be right, scale 1-5/fail.

Ergonomics: Evaluation of learning: approved/failed

Clinical care: Evaluation of learning: approved/failed