Acute, Emergency and Intensive Care Nursing (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

The course is scheduled for weeks 46-50.

Objective

Acute, Emergency and Intensive Care Nursing 5 cr AKTE
Objectives                                
- Students will learn to describe the emergency care system and service in the context of specialised health care, the levels of emergency care and the role of and interdependency between different stages of emergency care
- Students will gain proficiency in the main treatment methods of emergency and acute care, treatment-related technology and the creation of a safe care environment.
- Students will learn to interview and examine patients in emergency and acute care situations, identify the need for acute care, administer, document and report the required treatment and evaluate the actual treatment process.
- Students will learn to use the VIRVE phone as a communication device for emergency and acute care and know how to describe inter-authority cooperation from the perspective of emergency and acute care.
- Students will learn to safely administer pharmacotherapy to emergency and acute care patients.
- Students will know how to assess customers’ need for and urgency of treatment in acute care and reception work and will be able to make independent decisions, while identifying their limits and using consultation for support.
- Students will learn to cooperate with customers and their social networks and other people involved.
- Students will gain proficiency in CRM.
- Students will be able to carry out the clinical examinations and treatment measures belonging to the job description of nurses and draw the necessary conclusions.
- Students will learn to provide customers with personalised guidance and support for self-care and health promotion.
- Students will be capable of handling acute care and reception work in multicultural customer contacts.
- Students will know how to draw conclusions of the condition of an acutely ill patient and propose appropriate treatment methods.
- Students will learn to describe the emergency care system and service in the context of specialised health care, the levels of emergency care and the role of and interdependency between different stages of emergency care
- Students will gain proficiency in the main treatment methods of emergency and acute care, treatment-related technology and the creation of a safe care environment.
- Students will learn to safely administer pharmacotherapy to emergency and acute care patients.

Content

Contents
Intensive Care Nursing 3 cr TEHO
- The care environment and features of intensive care and the intensive care unit as part of the service system
- Comprehensive observation and care of intensive care patients by vital function
- Training in the basics of care and observation instruments: invasive and non-invasive
- Care of respirator patients
- Monitoring of the patient’s heart and circulation in the intensive unit
- Neurological monitoring of patients
- Assessment of the respiratory sufficiency of patients
- Nursing of intensive care patients
- Ethical analysis of intensive care based on patient cases
- High-risk pharmaceuticals, demanding fluid therapy and nutritional care, assessment, monitoring, follow-up and treatment of the fluid balance
- MET operations and liaison/consultant ICU Nurse operations
- Support and guidance for the intensive care patient and family members
- Demanding pain management of intensive care patients, the significance of basic care and delirium in the intensive care unit
- Skills workshops supporting theoretical studies
Acute and Emergency Nursing 2 cr PäEN
- Encountering patients and family members
- Acute and emergency care system
- Assessment of the need for care, TRIAGE, emergency call centre operations
- Phone guidance in the assessment of the need for care
- Multiprofessional inter-authority cooperation
- Flow of information, consultation and reporting (ISBAR)
- The VIRVE phone and its basic use
- Treatment process of patients suffering from various illnesses and injuries in acute and emergency care
- Special features of pharmacotherapy in acute and emergency care
- Participation in major accident training
- Principles of CRM
- Special features of acute care in different operating environments
- Observation of vital functions, disturbances in vital functions, support for vital functions
- ABCDE protocol
- Intensive resuscitation
- Acute mental health cases
- Critical thinking and decision-making
- Patient safety
- Skills workshops supporting studies

Materials

For exchange students:

Acute and Emergency Nursing:
- Material in Optima.
- Dutton H. & Finch J. 2018. Acute and Critical Care Nursing at a Glance. E-book. Wiley Blackwell.

Teaching methods

Lectures and workshop in Zoom, independent learning, case-based tasks, simulation.

Exam schedules

There is no exam in English parts.

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

Innovation pedagogy, case-based learning

Student workload

For exchange students:
1 cr = 27 hour student working

Acute and emergency nursing (1cr):
- Info and lecture: 3h
- Workshop: Patient examination and essential interventions: 3h
- Independent process assignment for AEN: 10h
- Pre-task and independent studying: 11h

Extra information about assignments can be found in Itslearning.

Arviointimenetelmät ja arvioinnin perusteet

For exchange students:

Acute and Emergency Nursing:
- Active participation during contact lessons: PASS/FAIL
- Pre-task for AEN workshop: PASS/FAIL
- Independent process assignment for AEN: 0-5