Acute Nursing (15 cr)
Code: SX00EA07-3005
General information
Enrollment
27.11.2023 - 10.12.2023
Timing
08.01.2024 - 15.03.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
15 op
Virtual portion
3 op
Mode of delivery
80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning
Unit
School of Health Care
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
20 - 60
Degree programmes
- Nursing (in Finnish)
Teachers
- Meri Rokkanen
- Jenni Tiainen
- Tiia Saastamoinen
- Leena Hinkkanen
- Mikael Soini
Teacher in charge
Jenni Tiainen
Groups
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SXO21K1ASairaanhoitotyön tutkinto-ohjelma, päivätoteutus, hallinnollinen ryhmä A
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SXO21K1BSairaanhoitotyön tutkinto-ohjelma, päivätoteutus, hallinnollinen ryhmä B
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SXO21K1CSairaanhoitotyön tutkinto-ohjelma, päivätoteutus, hallinnollinen ryhmä C
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SXO21K2Sairaanhoitotyön tutkinto-ohjelma, monimuoto
Objective
Students
- deepen their evidence-based competence in accordance with the key competence areas of nursing: clinical, decision-making, patient education, interaction, ethical, health promotion, and development and leadership competence
- can evaluate their evidence-based development and assume responsibility for the quality of nursing in their own actions
- are prepared for future-oriented and patient/client-oriented development of nursing
- deepen their competence in planning, implementing, evaluating and developing nursing of patients in emergency care, high dependency units, intensive care units and perioperative units of different operating environments
- deepen their competence in supporting and giving guidance to patients and their significant others in different phases of the clinical pathway
Content
- evidence-based nursing and its development
- nurses’ expertise and multiprofessional teamwork and networks
- health technology and competence in future nursing
- advanced studies in nursing of patients in emergency care, high dependency units, intensive care units and perioperative care
- patient education supporting patient’s resources and empowerment; supporting and providing guidance to significant others
- specific questions related to the study unit
Location and time
Spring 2024, period 3. Orientation 10.1.24. Exam-day 15.3.24.
Materials
The course literature will be refined during the course. Students can use the material they choose according to the subject of the course. The e-learning environment is Moodle, where students are guided through the course orientation. Moodle contains the objectives and contents of the study unit's (emergency and intensive care), more detailed literature and other material demonstrated by the teacher. In addition, Moodle platform has exercises for theoretical instruction, independent exercises and exams, additional material on topics, etc.
Teaching methods
Flipped learning
Mode of delivery face-to-face
Lecture
Task-Based Teaching
Online Teaching (Moodle)
Simulation
Expert Lectures
Medical calculation exam
Exams (x 2)
Independent assignments
Employer connections
Expert lectures during the theoretical instruction during the course. After the theoretical instruction, the students complete the Development of Nurse Expertise - Clinical Practice (15 ECTS credits).
Exam schedules
Exam 15.3.24.
Medical calculation exam is 25.1.24.
International connections
Osa opintojakson luennoista voidaan järjestää englanninkielisinä.
Completion alternatives
No optional methods. Education is an obligation of attendance.
Student workload
The scope of the course is 15 op. This is for the student 405 hours of work. Approximately 110 hours of nearby teaching. Self-study guidance is given by orientation.
Self-study includes pre-teaching proficiency, independent online courses, and exam preparation.
Content scheduling
The course uses teaching methods that require mandatory attendance (for example, simulations, laboratories). The course is scheduled for period 3. Teaching can be on all days of the week. The aim is to organize the teaching between 8 am and 4 pm.
Further information
This is an advanced course in Degree Program Nursing. It is for the last academic year. Completion of the course requires basic studies and basic exercises. Development of Nurse Expertise - Clinical Practice can not be started until all basic exercises have been successfully completed.
Part of theoretical instruction is an obligation of attendance. Absence for a valid reason and reimbursement practices will be negotiated with the tutor implementing the implementation.
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"
Assessment methods and criteria
Emergency and intensive care:
1 x exam (0-5) 100%
1 x group exam (0-5) 100%
1 x calculation test (HYV/HYL) 100%
1 x medicine knowledge test (HYV/HYL) 100%
online course 100%
Independent assignments during the course are mandatory and may have an impact on the total value of the course.
Prerequisites
The student may choose the nursing expertise studies when he has completed the theoretical studies included in the professional nursing studies and clinical practices included in these, unless otherwise agreed in the student's ISP.