Internal medicine and Surgical Nursing 2 8 cr SIKI2
Objectives
Students will
- Learn to plan, administer and evaluate individual patient care and to explain their actions
- Learn to identify the changes that internal medicine or surgically treated illnesses and injuries cause to patients and their family members
- Learn to apply internal medicine and surgical treatment methods in individual cases
- Know how to perform ethically in different care situations and work communities
- Learn to provide personal guidance to patients and their family members in promoting health and treating illness and in rehabilitation
- Understand the responsibility of nurses in caring for internal medicine and surgically treated patients
- Learn to promote occupational and patient safety in their work
- Know how to use aseptic techniques in different treatment situations
- Gain proficiency in pharmacotherapy related to the care of internal medicine and surgical patients (medication passport)
- Learn to document information about the care of internal medicine and surgical patients