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Basics of first aid (1 cr)

Code: VV00EE23-3031

General information


Enrollment

14.12.2020 - 14.01.2021

Timing

01.01.2021 - 02.05.2021

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Department of Social Services and Health Care, Savonlinna

Campus

Savonlinna Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

10 - 15

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Teemu Lehmusoksa

Teacher in charge

Pirjo Heimo

Groups

  • VV2020-2021
  • SHSA21KP
    Nursing, fulltime studies

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