Prehospital Leadership and ManagementLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

The student:
- is able to describe emergency medical services (EMS) as a part of different emergency services
- is able to describe EMS legislation and the meaning of EMS service level document
- understands the meaning of prehospital incident management and teamwork skills
- knows the principles of EMS leadership and can function as an EMS incident manager in different environments
- is aware of the legislation, hierarchy and relevant tactics of the different emergency services and understands the importance of co-operation in the daily, mass casualty and disaster operations
- is able to demonstrate different communication strategies in special circumstances and disaster situations
- knows the EMS leadership and management strategies in disaster situations and is able to effectively start the organization
- knows the bronze level leadership and management tasks, such as triage, treatment and transport leaders
- the student is able to describe different emergency medical service processes

Content

- day-to-day EMS leadership and management
- EMS leadership and management in special circumstances
- mutual co-operation between different emergency services
- leadership in mass casualty incidents
- command, control and communication
- principles of disaster management, legislation and communication
- the functions of triage, treatment and transport co-ordinators and bronze commander
- the principles of the preparedness planning
- civilian preparedness and special circumstances
- debriefing and defusing in prehospital emergency care

Qualifications

A minimum of 70 credits of clinical nursing studies.
BLS and ALS competence.
The student and tutor teacher go through other recommended studies in the HOPS discussions.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"
Evaluating competences evaluation criteria competent/intermediate level is used.