Study Guide

Objective

Ethics and professionality in nursing
• you are able to represent your client’s best interests and present yourself as a nursing professional in various teams
• you are able to produce, share and utilize expert competence in multidisciplinary teams, networks and partnerships

Clinical nursing
• you are able to perform the main nursing procedures and diagnostic tests as part of the overall patient care
• you are able to determine the patient’s need for urgent or emergency care
• you are able to support patients in need of acute care and their families
• you are able to administer and evaluate safe pharmacological treatment on patients in need of acute and intensive care
• you are able to support the functional ability and participation of a disabled person
• you are able to perform humane symptomatic treatment on critically ill patients

Evidence-based practice and decision making
• you are able to determine the content of necessary treatment and plan the treatment process based on standard decision-making procedures in acute and intensive care
• you are able to actively utilize research knowledge (recommendations, reports based on research evidence) in your decision making

Patient education competence
• you manage patient education as a method in acute and intensive nursing

The operational environment in social and health care
• you master the use of the most important care and monitoring equipment needed in acute and intensive nursing
• you are familiar with the use of patient record systems

Content

Ethics and professionality in nursing
• collegiality
• partnership work skills
• team work skills
• networking and co-operation networks

Clinical nursing
• procedures and diagnostic tests in acute and intensive nursing
• pharmacological treatment in acute and intencive care: pharmaceutical service, dosage calculations, IV-treatment, pharmacology and pharmacy
• assessment of the patient’s need for care
• operations in acute and emergency situations
• advanced life support
• injuries, multi-trauma patients
• encountering dying patients and their families
• nursing interventions in acute and intensive care

Evidence-based practice and decision making
• evaluation of the nursing process
• documentation in nursing

Patient education competence
• patient/client education

Operational environment in social and health care
• use of care and monitoring equipment
• use of patient record systems

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

You have proven your competence in the following modules and studies:

Module: Basics of professional nursing 30 ECTS
Module: Promotion of health and functional ability 15 ECTS
Study: Nursing in medical wards 5 ECTS
Study: Surgical and perioperative nursing 5 ECTS