Study Guide

Objective

You can apply information on anatomy and physiology, patophysiology, pharmacology and medical treatment in the planning, implementation and assessment of the patient's safe medical treatment.
You can assess the need for care of a patient needing urgent care.
You can estimate the need of immediate care systematically and can act in acute care situations and emergencies.
In cooperation with a multidisciplinary expert team, you can integrate nutrition therapy and guidance as part of comprehensive care in the treatment of a critically ill patient.
You can apply your knowledge about injuries when threating an injured person.
You can apply evidence based knowledge in acute and intensive care nursing.
You can begin the immediate rescue operations independently and can carry out measures in crises and catastrophe situations.

Content

How do you assess the care need of a patient who needs urgent care? (The assessment of the need for urgent care, ABCDE, News, assessment of the need for care of an emergency patient)
How do you act when taking care of patients needing urgent and/or intensive care, and in emergencies?
How do you estimate the need for nutrients of a critically or acutely ill patient, and how do you follow the fluid consumption/fluid balance?
How do you design, implement and assess the patient's medical treatment in acute and intensive nursing (Applied pharmacology)
How do you support the functional ability of an injured person in acute and intensive nursing? How do you take into account the ethical questions in acute and intensive nursing?
How do you operate in an accident situation?
How do you operate in a crisis and catastrophe situation and in radiation, nuclear, chemical or biological accidents?
How do you apply evidence based knowledge in acute and intensive nursing?

Opiskelumateriaali

Material on Learn and other learning material teacher indicates.

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

You can perform the course by active studies in contact teaching and online working. The other way is to integrate the studies to work. In this case you need to show your expertise of your earlier working experience 1 month before the course starts.

Studying includes contact teaching and independent online work. The course includes study assigments, practice exams and final exam.

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

Possible expert lectures or working life visits.

Tentit ja muut määräajat

Final exam is supervised electronic exam. The deadlines for the learning tasks are announced at the beginning of the course in Learn.

Repetition exams will be held electronically in the exam room.

Kansainvälinen yhteistyö

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Opiskelijan työmäärä

5 ects =135h students work which includes contact lessons and independent studying

Further information

The earlier studies before the student can attend to this course:
-medical and surgical theory

The student needs to attend to the information lesson

100% attendance obligation in simulations, laboratory practice and seminar.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Completing the learning tasks like seminar presentation. Evaluation: complemented - passed.
Exam, evaluation: failed-1-5

The seminar chore can affect to the final grade.

Qualifications

First year courses, theory of nursing in medical wards, surgical and perioperative nursing and gerontological nursing