Study Guide

Objective

The student:

• Knows the key concepts of nursing
• Knows the values and principles guiding nursing
• Knows the principles of professional interaction and cooperation
• Uses the nursing process to make decisions and record nursing work
• Uses the national nursing work recording model to record nursing work
• Knows the key principles of patient safety
• Can ensure patient safety in their own operations and in the work community
• Can assess the patient’s resources and care needs, define the patient’s care needs and objectives, and plan and implement key methods of assistance innursing, promoting the customer’s/patient’s resources
• Knows the principles of aseptic work, ergonomics, pain and chronic wound care and can apply the information in nursing work
• Can systematically assess the need for immediate treatment and can act in situations requiring immediate first aid
• Knows the principles and can function as a nurse in connection with death
• Knows the key methods, prerequisites and implementation of examining a person
• Interacts with the customer and the work community
• Knows what treatment-related infections and management of infection risks mean: hand hygiene, use of protective equipment, safe care environment
• Knows microbiology and basics, and the meaning of immunity and defence system
• Knows the purpose and knowledge base of vaccination

Content

Contents

• Key concepts of nursing
• Values, principles and key concepts that steer nursing
• Professional interaction and clear communications
• Nursing process, decision-making in nursing and documentation in nursing
• Starting points for patient safety and arranging a safe care environment
• Information security and data protection
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• 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
• First aid and basic resuscitation
• Interaction and communication competence
• Clinical examination of a patient following the ABCDE principles
• Key methods for examining people: interview, anamnesis, inspection, palpation, auscultation, percussion, observation and indicators
• Preconditions of good clinical examinations and their implementation: general condition, breathing, circulation, consciousness, excretion, musculoskeletal system, skin
• Aseptic techniques, infection prevention, hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Resistance and immunisation, infection risk management and hygiene recommendations
• The most common treatment-related infections and the microbes causing them