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Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing (5 ECTS)

Code: SX00DZ89-3061

General information


Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 31.01.2025
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
03.03.2025 - 18.04.2025
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 ECTS
Virtual portion
2 ECTS
Mode of delivery
On-campus and online
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
English
Seats
20 - 30
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
Maiju Salovaara-Hiltunen
Tuomas Vuokko
Lilli Ristevirta
Sumera Sheikh
Sari Sutinen
Teacher in charge
Sari Sutinen
Groups
SXN25K1B1
Degree Programme in Nursing Daytime Studies, top-up
Course
SX00DZ89

Implementation has 23 reservations. Total duration of reservations is 53 h 30 min.

Time Topic Location
Mon 03.03.2025 time 10:15 - 11:45
(1 h 30 min)
Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
Thu 06.03.2025 time 10:15 - 11:45
(1 h 30 min)
Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
Mon 10.03.2025 time 09:00 - 11:45
(2 h 45 min)
ONLINE Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
https://metropolia.zoom.us/j/5397201182
Wed 12.03.2025 time 09:00 - 11:45
(2 h 45 min)
ONLINE Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
https://metropolia.zoom.us/j/5397201182
Thu 13.03.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00
(3 h 15 min)
Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
Thu 27.03.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00
(3 h 15 min)
Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPA4015 Luentosali
Tue 01.04.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00
(3 h 15 min)
Gr 1: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5011 Akuuttihoitotyö 2
MPB5013 Akuutti hoitotyö 1
Tue 08.04.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00
(3 h 15 min)
Gr 3: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5032 Kliininen hoitotyö 3
MPB5011 Akuuttihoitotyö 2
MPB5019 Reflektointitila
Wed 09.04.2025 time 08:30 - 11:45
(3 h 15 min)
Gr 2: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5011 Akuuttihoitotyö 2
MPB5013 Akuutti hoitotyö 1
Wed 09.04.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00
(3 h 15 min)
Gr 3: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5011 Akuuttihoitotyö 2
MPB5013 Akuutti hoitotyö 1
Thu 10.04.2025 time 09:00 - 12:00
(3 h 0 min)
Gr 2: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5032 Kliininen hoitotyö 3
MPB5011 Akuuttihoitotyö 2
MPB5019 Reflektointitila
Fri 11.04.2025 time 09:00 - 12:00
(3 h 0 min)
Gr 1: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5032 Kliininen hoitotyö 3
Mon 14.04.2025 time 08:30 - 10:00
(1 h 30 min)
Gr 1 & 2: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5015 Simulaatio, leikkaussali
MPB5023 Reflektointitila
Mon 14.04.2025 time 10:15 - 11:45
(1 h 30 min)
Gr 1 & 2: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5012 Simulaatio, päivystys
MPB5023 Reflektointitila
Thu 17.04.2025 time 08:30 - 10:00
(1 h 30 min)
Gr 3 & 4: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5015 Simulaatio, leikkaussali
MPB5019 Reflektointitila
Thu 17.04.2025 time 10:15 - 11:45
(1 h 30 min)
Gr3 & 4: Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5012 Simulaatio, päivystys
MPB5019 Reflektointitila
Tue 22.04.2025 time 09:15 - 10:45
(1 h 30 min)
Only for SXN25K1B1 students: Gr1 Finnish as a second language integration
MPA4009 Oppimistila
Wed 30.04.2025 time 10:15 - 11:45
(1 h 30 min)
Only for SXN25K1B1 students: Gr1 Finnish as a second language integration
MPC4012 Oppimistila
Tue 13.05.2025 time 15:00 - 16:00
(1 h 0 min)
Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
Fri 22.08.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00
(3 h 15 min)
EXTRA LAB FOR RECENTLY ARRIVED STUDENTS Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5011 Akuuttihoitotyö 2
Tue 26.08.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00
(3 h 15 min)
EXTRA LAB FOR RECENTLY ARRIVED STUDENTS Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5022 Kliininen hoitotyö 2
Mon 08.09.2025 time 12:45 - 14:15
(1 h 30 min)
EXTRA LAB FOR RECENTLY ARRIVED STUDENTS Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5015 Simulaatio, leikkaussali
MPB5019 Reflektointitila
Mon 08.09.2025 time 14:30 - 16:00
(1 h 30 min)
EXTRA LAB FOR RECENTLY ARRIVED STUDENTS Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing SX00DZ89-3061
MPB5019 Reflektointitila
MPB5012 Simulaatio, päivystys
Changes to reservations may be possible.

Learning outcomes

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

Prerequisites

Medical Nursing Competence.
Surgical nursing Competence.

Teaching methods

Interactive lectures
Guided assignments
Laboration
Simulation
Independent e-learning
Exam

Location and time

3.3.-18.4.2025

Learning materials and recommended literature

To be announced in the orientation

Alternative completion methods of implementation

Student can enroll to the course together with the Finnish-speaking group.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

Exam room 14.4.-20.4.2025
re-exam TBN

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 for students

Prerequisites:
Medical Nursing Competence. Basic knowledge of Pharmacotherapy.

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam 1-5, failed
Simulations and laboratories passed-failed

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"

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