Acute Care In The emergency departmentLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

The student is able to:
- apply evidence based nursing and all relevant nursing principles in the care of the emergency patient in-hospital
- provide triage and secondary survey to an emergency patient
- apply previously gained information on the treatment and observation of the most common patient groups encountered in the emergency environment
- recognize an organ donor patient and is aware of the organ donor practices in Finland
- use the most common and relevant immobilization practices and is able to produce the most common casts
- apply his reporting and scribing techniques the emergency environment
- assess the nursing care of the patient and organize the further hospital treatment multiprofessionally
- assess the guidance and support needs of the emergency patient
- provide adequate clinical observation and nursing care from the emergency patient point of view

Content

- the nursing care of the common emergency patient groups
- secondary assessment and diagnostics
- clinical observations and nursing care
- patient care assessment and further multiprofessional care
- organ donor practices in Finland
- immobilization techniques and producing casts
- reporting and charting in the ER
- special practices in the guidance and support of the emergency patient
- observation and nursing care of the emergency patient

Qualifications

Minimum of 60 credits of clinical nursing studies.
The nursing skills needed in the ER and high acuity units.
The student and tutor teacher go through other recommended studies in HOPS discussions.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

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