Acute Nursing, Emergency and Intensive Care (15 ECTS)

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 term 2024, starting in January as per schedule. Course commences with orientation (see OMA schedule) which is compulsory for all.
Please note: all clinical labs and simulations .attendance 100% and theory 80%. Please note: attending clinical labs it is required that you have prepared theoretically (you have attended taught theory/done possible pre-learning assignments/studied independently related theory)

Materials

The course literature will be confirmed during the course orientation
Moodle is used on course as a study platform

Teaching methods

Flipped learning (student will prepare beforehand (pre-assignments) for the lesson)
Activating lectures and patient case scenario
Simulations
Clincal labs
Online-teaching (moodle)
COIL joint teaching (international co-operation)
Expert Lectures
Drug calculation exam
Exams
Independent learning assignments

Employer connections

Expert lectures during the during the course.
After the theory module (15cr) students will complete clinical practice (15 cr) in the area of they interest

Exam schedules

Times for the exam and drug calculations exams will be confirmed when the course commences(orientation)

International connections

COIL (co-operative online international learning) with Middlesex University, London UK-more information in orientation

Completion alternatives

No alternative ways for completing the course.
RPL is not possible as the course is part of deepening level professional studies .

Student workload

The the length of the course is 15 credits For the student this means total of 405 hours of work. Approximately 110 hours of this is contact teaching.

Content scheduling

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Further information

Course materials are only meant to be used on the course and student is not allowed to share them to outsiders (copyright act)

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:
Individual theory exam (0-5)
Applied pair/group exam (0-5)
Drug calculations exam (pass/fail)
1 x medicine knowledge test (pass/fail)
online courses/independent assignments (pass/fail)

More detailed assessment criterias for the exams and assignments will be provided on the course

Qualifications

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.