Emergency Care and High Dependency Nursing (5 ECTS)

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

Course materials will be given in orientation


Radiation Safety for Nurses
https://moodle.metropolia.fi/course/view.php?id=2961
Key: RaSaNu

Teaching methods

Interactive lectures
Guided assignments
Laboration
Simulation
Independent e-learning
Exam

Exam schedules

Exam date given at Orientation together with re-exam dates
Assignments return dates will be informed in orientation
Radiation safety assignment deadline given by the subject teacher
Surgical and perioperative assignment dates agreed in orientation

Completion alternatives

NA

Student workload

5 credits = 135 hours of student work
Emergency care and High dependency nursing 2,5 cr=67,5 hrs
Lectures 4x4=16 hrs
Laboration 1x4hrs (4h for both small groups)
Independent study/ online courses 44hrs
Exam 3 hrs

Surgical/perioperative part 1,5 cr=40,5hrs
Simulation 2x2hrs=4hrs
Preliminary assignments 8 hrs
Article assignment 28,5 hrs

Radiation safety 1 cr=27 hrs
Lectures 4 hrs
Independent study and assignment 23 hrs

Content scheduling

The course takes place in spring 2021

Further information

Students must confirm their attendance for a course implementation by being present when tuition begins or in another manner agreed with the lecturer. Students who are unable to attend the first teaching session due to illness may also confirm their attendance by informing the lecturer of this in advance.

Laborations and simulations 100% presence required
Contact lessons please see course schedule
Flipped learning method used in course
Taitopro skills stations independent practises recommended
Contents of course materials are being discussed in orientation

The approved performance of the radiation safety component entitles the holder to work in an environment where ionizing radiation is used in connection with a medical procedure.

Course materials cannot be shared to outsiders in any circumstances!

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"

Qualifications

Medical Nursing Competence.
Surgical nursing Competence.