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Patient Examinations (1 cr)

Code: TH00BW30-3002

General information


Enrollment

02.12.2021 - 11.04.2022

Timing

04.04.2022 - 22.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing

Teachers

  • Nita Björklöf
  • Hanna Ollikkala

Groups

  • PTERTK22

Objective

Objectives

Students will
• Know how to come into contact with and interview the person to be examined
• Understand the functions of vital organs in the human body
• Be familiar with clinical examination methods and their principles

Content

Contents

• 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, indicators
• Preconditions of good clinical examinations and their implementation: general condition, breathing, circulation, consciousness, excretion, musculoskeletal system, skin
• Monitoring a healthy patient, recording an ECG and basics of interpretation

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty