Study Guide

Objective

You are able to apply evidence-based information to surgical and perioperative nursing.
You master the aseptic practices in your own work and in patient care.
You know the key methods of the nursing which are used in the surgical patient's pre-, intra- and postoperative care.
You can systematically prevent, identify and treat postoperative surgical complications.
You can carry out the medication of a surgical and perioperative patient safely utilizing applied pharmacology.
You master the pain management process.
You know how to apply guidance and teaching methods to surgical and perioperative nursing.
You are able to document the surgical and perioperative nursing process and summary in a nationally uniform way.
You understand the nurse's duties and responsibilities in the surgical nursing.
You develop the teamwork, you appreciate collegiality and understand their significance to the patient and occupational safety.

Content

How do you apply evidence-based information to surgical and perioperative nursing?
What are the most ordinary illnesses and injuries that are surgically taken care?
How is aseptics considered and implemented during the stages of surgical treatment?
What are the objectives of pre-, intra- and postoperative nursing and the key methods of the nursing?
How is patient safety ensured at the surgical process?
How is the observation and treatment of a patient carried out at the different stages of pre-, intra-, and postoperative 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 guide a patient and make him/her committed to self-care?
How do you use the ISBAR and how do you document the nursing?

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: Alipaineimulaitteet, Imu-laitteet, Kirurginen polttolaite, Kannettavat lääkeannostelijat, Potilaslämmittimet, Nesteen- ja verenlämmittimet
-Terveysportti: Sairaanhoitajan käsikirja, Anestesiahoitotyön käsikirja
-Käypähoitosuositukset (Best practice quidelines)

Teaching methods

-Students who meet the prerequisites are added to the learn platform and they are instructed via Peppi from the start of the course.
-You are allowed to study independently.
-Notice that the learn exams must be done before the clinical practice week at school.
-Theory lessons (teams or live) are not mandatory
-Clinical skills practices and evaluation are mandatory
-The format of the exam is dialogue exam or exam-essey.

Employer connections

1) An alumni working in the operating room during the study period is available via the Padlet message wall and chat.
2) A familiarization visit to working life (operating room) is carried out (if the corona restrictions are ongoing, the implementation is virtual-live)
3) Case and skill exercises brought from working life strongly support the understanding and application of theory in practice.
4) Clinical practice 1 continues with the guidance of alumni and other professionals after completing this theory.

Exam schedules

1) All practice exams (learn) must be done before training week. If you haven`t done those exams you are not allowed to participate.
2) If there is surgeon's lecture, it will be mandatory. If you are unable to participate you will have to write an essey.
3) Theory evaluation is Dialogue or exam essy-test (0-5), after training week
4) Competence assessment: fail-pass, after the training week
Retest: Theory, exam essee, Clinical skills, individual clinical skills evaluation

International connections

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Student workload

27h x 5 theory
27h x 2 Clinical skills
A more detailed breakdown can be found in learn

Content scheduling

Theory 5 credits
-includes independent study and theory teaching in theory workshops (themes of the workshops: pre- and postoperative nursing, pain, complications, anaesthesia, perioperative nursing, surgical specialties, review, dialogue or essay exam in Exam

Exercises 2 credits
-H1 clinical manual skills and operating room process -case
-H2 pain treatment + simulations, clinical skills + case work
-H3 Surgical patient treatment path -case
-H4 Complication simulations, medical resuscitation
- Competence assessment

Further information

-Students who meet the prerequisites are added to the learn platform and they are instructed via Peppi from the start of the course.
-Theory lessons are not mandatory, clinical skills trainin is mandatory
PREREQUISITE CONDITIONS:
-Patient safety and information management 4 credits (completed with approval)
-Fundamentals of clinical nursing and preclinical training 9 credits (completed with approval)
- Basic training in clinical nursing 6 credits (completed with approval)
-Anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology 5 ECTS (in progress or completed when registering)
-Pharmaceutical treatment 5 credits (ongoing or completed when registering)
-Health promotion and nutrition (on the way or completed when registering)
- Guidance and support for self-care... 5 ECTS (in progress or successfully completed)
-Internal medicine nursing and preclinical training 7 ECTS (ongoing or completed when registering)
- Gerontological nursing and preclinical training 5.5 ECTS (in progress or successfully completed)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Learn training exams must be done before the training week.
GENERAL EVALUATION CRITERIA
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
Retest: Retest in the exam as an essay exam. The 1st renewal can be done immediately, the 2nd renewal no earlier than 1 month after the previous assessment.

Qualifications

Professional basics in nursing 29 ECTS credits