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Surgical and perioperative nursing (5 cr)

Code: HT00DT89-3013

General information


Enrollment

06.04.2022 - 22.04.2022

Timing

07.11.2022 - 16.12.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

4 op

Mode of delivery

20 % Contact teaching, 80 % Distance learning

Campus

Kotka Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

15 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Katri Rissanen
  • Mari Penttilä

Teacher in charge

Katri Rissanen

Groups

  • EHKT21SM
    Paramedic, part-time studies

Objective

You know how to apply your knowledge on key surgical illnesses when nursing perioperative patients at different stages.
You master the key nursing methods of a surgical and perioperative patient.
You master the aseptic practices in your own work and in patient care.

You master the operating models preventing complications and promoting rehabilitation in nursing perioperative patients.
You can work utilizing operating models that promote patient and work safety.
You can apply your knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology to surgical and perioperative nursing.
You can carry out the medication of a surgical and perioperative patient safely utilizing applied pharmacology.
You know the principles of safe transfusion.
You can carry out evidence-based pain management.
You know how to apply guidance and teaching methods to surgical and perioperative nursing.
You are able to apply evidence-based information to surgical and perioperative nursing.
You are able to document the surgical and perioperative nursing process and summary in a nationally uniform way

Content

What are the most common illnesses and disabilities that require surgical care?
What are the aims and methods of pre-, intra-, and postoperative nursing?

How is the observation and treatment of a patient carried out at the different stages of pre-, intra-, and postoperative nursing?
How do you utilize the methods of systematic assessment of a patient in postoperative nursing? NEWS, ABCDE?
What are the key treatments and nursing methods used at different stages in nursing surgical patients?
What are the key treatments and nursing methods used in nursing perioperative patients?
How is patient safety ensured at different nursing stages?
What are the key medicine groups in surgical nursing?
How is safe medication planned, carried out and assessed at the stage of pre-, intra-, and postoperative nursing?
How is medicinal and non-medicinal pain management assessed, planned and carried out?
How do you apply evidence-based information to surgical and perioperative nursing?
How is transfusion carried out safely?
How do you guide a patient and make him/her committed to self-care?

Materials

Learn includes the minimum material.

You can use these materials to support your learnin process.
-UEF-lääketieteen luennot
-Oppiportti/oppikirjat/Kirurgia, Kipu, Anestesiologian ja tehohoitotyön perusteet, Gastroenterologia ja hepatologia, Peruselintoimintojen häiriöt ja niiden hoito
-Oppiportti/Verkkokoulutukset (some are requisite ): Alipaineimulaitteet, Imu-laitteet, Kirurginen polttolaite, Kannettavat lääkeannostelijat, Potilaslämmittimet, Nesteen- ja verenlämmittimet
-Terveysportti: Sairaanhoitajan käsikirja, Anestesiahoitotyön käsikirja
-Käypähoitosuositukset (Best practice quidelines)

Teaching methods

-You are allowed to study independetly.
-Notice that the learn exams must be done before the clinical practice week at school.

Employer connections

Preclinical training 1 is integratet.
These exercises are mandatory!
Training week is integratet with theoretical studies.
Competence assessment will be done after these exercises.

Exam schedules

All practice exams (learn) must be done before training week. If you haven`t done those exams you are not allowed to participate.
Exam-essay

If there is surgeon's lecture, it will e mandatory. If you are unable to participate you will have to write an essey.
Dialogue exam: Evaluation: 0-5, after training week
Competence assessment: fail-pass, after the training week
retest: essey

International connections

-

Student workload

27h x 5
A more detailed breakdown can be found in learn

Content scheduling

-

Further information

Prerequisites are reduced. If they are not met, you will not be eligible for the course!
APPROVED COURCES OF STUDY
Data management 5 ect
Anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology 5ect
Basics of clinical nursing 5ect
Patient safety and pharmacotherapy 5ect
Preclinical training, basics in nursing 4ect
Clinical training, basics in nursing
APPROVED COURSES COMPLETED OR IN PROGRESS
Basics of health promotion
Supervising and supporting self-care management in social and health care environment
Nursing in medical wards
Gerontological nursing
Preclinical training 1 (parts Nursing in medical wards and Gerontological nursing)
Clinical training 1 (parts Nursing in medical wards and Gerontological nursing)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Learn's practice exams passed.

5 = almost complete answer, justification and understanding of context appear in the answer, good additions to colleagues' answers
4 = a little to be completed in the answer, the answer has tried to tie things together and find cause-effect relationships, additions to the colleague's answers
3 = answer core issues, little reasoning, no factual errors, little complementary answers
2 = illogical answer with few correct things, little justification, no life-threatening factual errors, few additions
1 = individual real issues for which no justification, answer one-sided, few additions, if any
0 = just some right things or participating in a conversation with little or no information
Recap: Exam - Essay Exam