Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing (5 cr)
Code: SX00DZ89-3021
General information
Enrollment
28.11.2022 - 11.12.2022
Timing
13.03.2023 - 28.04.2023
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
School of Health Care
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
- English
Seats
20 - 40
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
- Maiju Salovaara-Hiltunen
- Tuomas Vuokko
- Bishoy Awadalla
- Suvi Kontkanen
Teacher in charge
Maiju Salovaara-Hiltunen
Groups
-
SXN23K1EXExchange Students: Study Programme Health Care
-
SXN22K1EDegree Programme in Nursing Daytime Studies
-
SXN22S1BDegree Programme in Nursing Daytime Studies
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
Materials
To be announced in the orientation
Teaching methods
Interactive lectures
Guided assignments
Laboration
Simulation
Independent e-learning
Exam
Exam schedules
Exam 27.04.2023 12.45 - 14.15.
1. re-exam: 21.8.2023 (enrollment 18.07.2023 - 06.08.2023)
2. re-exam: 19.9.2023 (enrollment 17.08.2023 - 01.09.2023)
Completion alternatives
Student can enroll to the course together with the Finnish-speaking group.
Student workload
5cr = 135h
Emergency care and high dependency nursing (2,5cr = 67,5h)
Lectures: 4 x 4h = 16h
Lab + simulation 2 x 4h
Independent studying and assignments 40h
Exam 2h
Surgical and perioperative nursing (1,5cr = 40,5h)
Surg/periop simulations 2 x 2h = 4h
Independent studies for the simulation 8h
Article assignment 28,5h
Radiation safety (1cr = 27h)
Lectures 4h
Independent studying 23h
Content scheduling
Spring 2023
Further information
Prerequisites:
You must have completed 30 cr of clinical studies prior to participating to the course including: The Basic Practice of Clinical Nursing 1 & 2, Pharmacotherapy 1 & 2, internal medicine, surgical and perioperative care (ingoing when the course starts)
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"
Assessment methods and criteria
Exam 1-5, failed
Simulations and laboratories passed-failed
Prerequisites
Medical Nursing Competence.
Surgical nursing Competence.