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Basic Nursing SkillsLaajuus (8 cr)

Code: TH00BV77

Credits

8 op

Objective

Objectives:
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• The student respects the patient as an expert agent of their own life
• Acknowledges the values, principles and key concepts of nursing
• Knows the basics of information retrieaval
• Knows how to interact professionally and therapeutically with patients and their family members.
• Acknowledges the principles of professional cooperation
• Knows how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Knows how to document patients according to the national nursing documentation model
• Acknowledges the key principles of patient safety in emergency care and nursing
• Is familiar with the aseptic techniques and how to work ergonomically
• Knows how to communicate in order to ensure patient safety
• Knows how to use the instruments used in basic nursing
• Knows how to assess the patient’s resources and need for care
• Has the basic information and skills related to the key procedures required in nursing
• Knows how to determine patients’ need for care and the objectives of care, as well as to plan and provide key nursing assistance methods to promote the resources of customers/patients
• Acknowledges the principles of wound treatment and know how to apply the information when treating chronic wounds
• Acknowledges pain evaluation methods and the methods of unmedicated pain management
• Knows how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner
• Knows how to act in situations where first aid is required
• Knows how to encounter death and care for a deceased person

Content

Contents
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• Information retrieaval
• Key concepts of nursing
• Professional interaction
• Clinical decision-making
• The process, decision-making and documentation in nursing
• Principles of CRM and patient safety
• Arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security, data protection and information technology
• Infection prevention: hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• Usage of the ISBAR documentation tool
• Patient monitoring
• Assisting in daily activities
• Common methods of assisting and treatment methods required in nursing
• Tissue integrity, prevention of bedsores and treatment of chronic wounds
• Pain assessment and unmedicated pain management methods
• ABCDE protocol and NEWS
• First aid and basic resuscitation

Enrollment

02.12.2023 - 21.01.2024

Timing

01.01.2024 - 18.02.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

8 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Emergency Care
Teachers
  • Hanna Koivikko
  • Jaana Koskela
  • Nita Björklöf
  • Lasse Putko
Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • PENHOK24
Small groups
  • 1
  • 2

Objective

Objectives:
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• The student respects the patient as an expert agent of their own life
• Acknowledges the values, principles and key concepts of nursing
• Knows the basics of information retrieaval
• Knows how to interact professionally and therapeutically with patients and their family members.
• Acknowledges the principles of professional cooperation
• Knows how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Knows how to document patients according to the national nursing documentation model
• Acknowledges the key principles of patient safety in emergency care and nursing
• Is familiar with the aseptic techniques and how to work ergonomically
• Knows how to communicate in order to ensure patient safety
• Knows how to use the instruments used in basic nursing
• Knows how to assess the patient’s resources and need for care
• Has the basic information and skills related to the key procedures required in nursing
• Knows how to determine patients’ need for care and the objectives of care, as well as to plan and provide key nursing assistance methods to promote the resources of customers/patients
• Acknowledges the principles of wound treatment and know how to apply the information when treating chronic wounds
• Acknowledges pain evaluation methods and the methods of unmedicated pain management
• Knows how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner
• Knows how to act in situations where first aid is required
• Knows how to encounter death and care for a deceased person

Content

Contents
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• Information retrieaval
• Key concepts of nursing
• Professional interaction
• Clinical decision-making
• The process, decision-making and documentation in nursing
• Principles of CRM and patient safety
• Arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security, data protection and information technology
• Infection prevention: hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• Usage of the ISBAR documentation tool
• Patient monitoring
• Assisting in daily activities
• Common methods of assisting and treatment methods required in nursing
• Tissue integrity, prevention of bedsores and treatment of chronic wounds
• Pain assessment and unmedicated pain management methods
• ABCDE protocol and NEWS
• First aid and basic resuscitation

Evaluation scale

H-5

Enrollment

02.07.2023 - 27.10.2023

Timing

11.09.2023 - 17.11.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

8 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Emergency Care
Teachers
  • Saimi Ristimäki
  • Heli Aarnio
  • Jaana Koskela
  • Nita Björklöf
  • Lasse Putko
Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • PENHOS23
Small groups
  • 1
  • 2

Objective

Objectives:
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• The student respects the patient as an expert agent of their own life
• Acknowledges the values, principles and key concepts of nursing
• Knows the basics of information retrieaval
• Knows how to interact professionally and therapeutically with patients and their family members.
• Acknowledges the principles of professional cooperation
• Knows how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Knows how to document patients according to the national nursing documentation model
• Acknowledges the key principles of patient safety in emergency care and nursing
• Is familiar with the aseptic techniques and how to work ergonomically
• Knows how to communicate in order to ensure patient safety
• Knows how to use the instruments used in basic nursing
• Knows how to assess the patient’s resources and need for care
• Has the basic information and skills related to the key procedures required in nursing
• Knows how to determine patients’ need for care and the objectives of care, as well as to plan and provide key nursing assistance methods to promote the resources of customers/patients
• Acknowledges the principles of wound treatment and know how to apply the information when treating chronic wounds
• Acknowledges pain evaluation methods and the methods of unmedicated pain management
• Knows how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner
• Knows how to act in situations where first aid is required
• Knows how to encounter death and care for a deceased person

Content

Contents
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• Information retrieaval
• Key concepts of nursing
• Professional interaction
• Clinical decision-making
• The process, decision-making and documentation in nursing
• Principles of CRM and patient safety
• Arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security, data protection and information technology
• Infection prevention: hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• Usage of the ISBAR documentation tool
• Patient monitoring
• Assisting in daily activities
• Common methods of assisting and treatment methods required in nursing
• Tissue integrity, prevention of bedsores and treatment of chronic wounds
• Pain assessment and unmedicated pain management methods
• ABCDE protocol and NEWS
• First aid and basic resuscitation

Evaluation scale

H-5

Enrollment

02.12.2022 - 22.01.2023

Timing

01.01.2023 - 31.07.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

8 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Emergency Care
Teachers
  • Heli Aarnio
  • Jaana Koskela
  • Nita Björklöf
  • Lasse Putko
  • Sonja Sahla
Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • PENHOK23
Small groups
  • Pienryhmä 1
  • Pienryhmä 2

Objective

Objectives:
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• The student respects the patient as an expert agent of their own life
• Acknowledges the values, principles and key concepts of nursing
• Knows the basics of information retrieaval
• Knows how to interact professionally and therapeutically with patients and their family members.
• Acknowledges the principles of professional cooperation
• Knows how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Knows how to document patients according to the national nursing documentation model
• Acknowledges the key principles of patient safety in emergency care and nursing
• Is familiar with the aseptic techniques and how to work ergonomically
• Knows how to communicate in order to ensure patient safety
• Knows how to use the instruments used in basic nursing
• Knows how to assess the patient’s resources and need for care
• Has the basic information and skills related to the key procedures required in nursing
• Knows how to determine patients’ need for care and the objectives of care, as well as to plan and provide key nursing assistance methods to promote the resources of customers/patients
• Acknowledges the principles of wound treatment and know how to apply the information when treating chronic wounds
• Acknowledges pain evaluation methods and the methods of unmedicated pain management
• Knows how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner
• Knows how to act in situations where first aid is required
• Knows how to encounter death and care for a deceased person

Content

Contents
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• Information retrieaval
• Key concepts of nursing
• Professional interaction
• Clinical decision-making
• The process, decision-making and documentation in nursing
• Principles of CRM and patient safety
• Arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security, data protection and information technology
• Infection prevention: hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• Usage of the ISBAR documentation tool
• Patient monitoring
• Assisting in daily activities
• Common methods of assisting and treatment methods required in nursing
• Tissue integrity, prevention of bedsores and treatment of chronic wounds
• Pain assessment and unmedicated pain management methods
• ABCDE protocol and NEWS
• First aid and basic resuscitation

Evaluation scale

H-5

Enrollment

02.07.2022 - 30.09.2022

Timing

29.08.2022 - 14.10.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

8 op

Virtual portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

75 % Contact teaching, 25 % Distance learning

Unit

Health and Well-being

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

15 - 35

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Emergency Care
Teachers
  • Heli Aarnio
  • Jaana Koskela
  • Nita Björklöf
  • Lasse Putko
Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • PENHOS22
Small groups
  • Pienryhmä 1
  • Pienryhmä 2

Objective

Objectives:
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• The student respects the patient as an expert agent of their own life
• Acknowledges the values, principles and key concepts of nursing
• Knows the basics of information retrieaval
• Knows how to interact professionally and therapeutically with patients and their family members.
• Acknowledges the principles of professional cooperation
• Knows how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Knows how to document patients according to the national nursing documentation model
• Acknowledges the key principles of patient safety in emergency care and nursing
• Is familiar with the aseptic techniques and how to work ergonomically
• Knows how to communicate in order to ensure patient safety
• Knows how to use the instruments used in basic nursing
• Knows how to assess the patient’s resources and need for care
• Has the basic information and skills related to the key procedures required in nursing
• Knows how to determine patients’ need for care and the objectives of care, as well as to plan and provide key nursing assistance methods to promote the resources of customers/patients
• Acknowledges the principles of wound treatment and know how to apply the information when treating chronic wounds
• Acknowledges pain evaluation methods and the methods of unmedicated pain management
• Knows how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner
• Knows how to act in situations where first aid is required
• Knows how to encounter death and care for a deceased person

Content

Contents
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• Information retrieaval
• Key concepts of nursing
• Professional interaction
• Clinical decision-making
• The process, decision-making and documentation in nursing
• Principles of CRM and patient safety
• Arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security, data protection and information technology
• Infection prevention: hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• Usage of the ISBAR documentation tool
• Patient monitoring
• Assisting in daily activities
• Common methods of assisting and treatment methods required in nursing
• Tissue integrity, prevention of bedsores and treatment of chronic wounds
• Pain assessment and unmedicated pain management methods
• ABCDE protocol and NEWS
• First aid and basic resuscitation

Evaluation scale

H-5

Enrollment

02.12.2021 - 31.01.2022

Timing

01.01.2022 - 31.07.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

8 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Emergency Care
Teachers
  • Heli Aarnio
  • Jaana Koskela
  • Nita Björklöf
  • Lasse Putko
Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 14. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 14. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • PENHOK22
Small groups
  • Pienryhmä 1
  • Pienryhmä 2

Objective

Objectives:
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• The student respects the patient as an expert agent of their own life
• Acknowledges the values, principles and key concepts of nursing
• Knows the basics of information retrieaval
• Knows how to interact professionally and therapeutically with patients and their family members.
• Acknowledges the principles of professional cooperation
• Knows how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Knows how to document patients according to the national nursing documentation model
• Acknowledges the key principles of patient safety in emergency care and nursing
• Is familiar with the aseptic techniques and how to work ergonomically
• Knows how to communicate in order to ensure patient safety
• Knows how to use the instruments used in basic nursing
• Knows how to assess the patient’s resources and need for care
• Has the basic information and skills related to the key procedures required in nursing
• Knows how to determine patients’ need for care and the objectives of care, as well as to plan and provide key nursing assistance methods to promote the resources of customers/patients
• Acknowledges the principles of wound treatment and know how to apply the information when treating chronic wounds
• Acknowledges pain evaluation methods and the methods of unmedicated pain management
• Knows how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner
• Knows how to act in situations where first aid is required
• Knows how to encounter death and care for a deceased person

Content

Contents
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• Information retrieaval
• Key concepts of nursing
• Professional interaction
• Clinical decision-making
• The process, decision-making and documentation in nursing
• Principles of CRM and patient safety
• Arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security, data protection and information technology
• Infection prevention: hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• Usage of the ISBAR documentation tool
• Patient monitoring
• Assisting in daily activities
• Common methods of assisting and treatment methods required in nursing
• Tissue integrity, prevention of bedsores and treatment of chronic wounds
• Pain assessment and unmedicated pain management methods
• ABCDE protocol and NEWS
• First aid and basic resuscitation

Evaluation scale

H-5