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Basics of first aid (1 cr)

Code: VV00EE23-3017

General information


Enrollment

03.01.2022 - 16.01.2022

Timing

01.03.2022 - 01.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Yhteisten opintojen koulutusyksikkö

Campus

Mikkeli Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

15 - 15

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Leila Sikanen

Teacher in charge

Sirpa Gardemeister

Groups

  • VV2021-2022
    Optional studies 2021-2022

Objective

Upon completion of the course, the participant masters the basics of giving first aid in the topics included in the course contents:

Action taken to assist in an accident or attack of illness
Basics of emergency first aid
• First aid for a unconscious person
• Basic resuscitation
• Foreign object in the airway
• Stopping large bleeding
• First aid for a person shoking (disorder of circulation

Wounds first aid
The most common attacks of illness

Burns and injuries caused by electricity

Joint injuries and fractures

Poisonings

Group-specific special topics

Evaluation scale

Approved/Failed