Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing (5 cr)
Code: SX00DZ89-3051
General information
Enrollment
27.11.2023 - 10.12.2023
Timing
18.03.2024 - 19.04.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
2 op
Mode of delivery
60 % Contact teaching, 40 % Distance learning
Unit
School of Health Care
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
- English
Seats
0 - 40
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
- Linda Dinda
- Tuomas Vuokko
- Johanna Toivonen
- Lilli Ristevirta
- Sumera Sheikh
- Sari Sutinen
Teacher in charge
Sari Sutinen
Groups
-
SXN23S1B2Degree Programme in Nursing Daytime Studies, separate application, group 2
-
SXN23S1BEDegree Programme in Nursing Daytime Studies, top-up
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
Location and time
20.3.2024->
Materials
To be announced in the orientation
Teaching methods
Interactive lectures
Guided assignments
Laboration
Simulation
Independent e-learning
Exam
Exam schedules
Exam room 15.4.-22.4.2024
re-exam TBN
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
Further information
Prerequisites:
Medical Nursing Competence. Basic knowledge of Pharmacotherapy.
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.