Basic Nursing Skills (10 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

Basic Nursing Skills 10 ECTS HOPE

Objectives:

Students will:
• Respect the patient as an expert agent of their own life
• Acknowledge the values, principles and key concepts of nursing
• Know how to interact professionally and therapeutically with patients and their family members
• Acknowledge the principles of professional cooperation
• Know how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Know how to document patients according to the national nursing documentation model
• Acknowledge the key principles of patient safety
• Know how to apply the aseptic technique
• Know how to work ergonomically
• Know how to communicate in order to ensure patient safety
• Know how to use the instruments used in nursing
• Know how to assess the patient’s resources and need for care
• Have the basic information and skills related to the key procedures required in nursing
• Know 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
• Acknowledge the principles of wound treatment and know how to apply the information when treating chronic wounds
• Acknowledge pain evaluation methods and the methods of unmedicated pain management
• Know how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner
• Know how to act in situations where first aid is required
• Know how to encounter death and look after a deceased person

Content

Content
(Basics of Nursing, 4 ECTS

Asepsis, hand hygiene and aseptic techniques, 1 ECTS
Preclinical Training in Nursing Basics, 5 ECTS HOPEP)
• Key concepts of nursing
• Professional interaction
• Clinical decision making
• Treatment process, decision-making and documentation
• Principles of patient safety
• Arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security and privacy
• 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