Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing (5 ECTS)

Objective

Students
- are familiar with legislation related to emergency care and high dependency nursing and understand nurses’ responsibilities and obligations in relation to the patients of emergency care and high dependency nursing
- understand the significant aspects of emergency care and high dependency nursing and the importance of multiprofessional collaboration from the perspective of patient’s overall care
- are familiar with nurses’ key competence areas in nursing of emergency care and high dependency patients
- understand the importance of needs assessment of emergency care patients as part of patient safety
- can implement patient triage categories
- are able to use diagnostic methods for patients in emergency care
- understand the importance of emergency care and high dependency care as part of the acute care patient’s clinical pathway
- can provide information on medical, work-related and population-level exposure to radiation in general terms and interpret radiation risks
- can inform about the quality and extent of exposure to radiation in daily work tasks
- understand the general principles of radiation protection and can apply them to practice

Content

- legislation, significant aspects and nurses’ competence areas in emergency care
- emergency care in primary health care and specialized health care, joint emergency departments
- emergency care and high dependency units, staffing structure, multiprofessional collaboration
- needs assessment of emergency care patients
- triage categories
- laboratory tests, minor procedures (pleural puncture and pleural drain, lumbar puncture)
- nursing care of epidural/spinal anaesthesia patients
- monitoring and care of emergency surgery patients
- radiation safety
- basics of radiation physics and biology and their significance to the use of medical radiation
- effective legislation on the use of medical radiation
- major technical and physical factors affecting radiation safety and procedures related to them in medical situations involving exposure to radiation at work

Exam schedules

Re-exam in general examination dates

Tuesday 21.2. klo 16.30 – 20.00 Enrollment: 18.1. – 2.2.
Tuesday 25.4. klo 16.30 – 20.00 Enrollment: 12.3. – 2.4.

Further information

1.1.2023 Resposible teacher Anna Niskanen

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"

Qualifications

Medical Nursing Competence.
Surgical nursing Competence.