Basic Nursing Skills (8 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

Objectives:
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• The student respects the patient as an expert agent of their own life
• Acknowledges the values, principles and key concepts of nursing
• Knows the basics of information retrieaval
• Knows how to interact professionally and therapeutically with patients and their family members.
• Acknowledges the principles of professional cooperation
• Knows how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Knows how to document patients according to the national nursing documentation model
• Acknowledges the key principles of patient safety in emergency care and nursing
• Is familiar with the aseptic techniques and how to work ergonomically
• Knows how to communicate in order to ensure patient safety
• Knows how to use the instruments used in basic nursing
• Knows how to assess the patient’s resources and need for care
• Has the basic information and skills related to the key procedures required in nursing
• Knows 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
• Acknowledges the principles of wound treatment and know how to apply the information when treating chronic wounds
• Acknowledges pain evaluation methods and the methods of unmedicated pain management
• Knows how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner
• Knows how to act in situations where first aid is required
• Knows how to encounter death and care for a deceased person

Content

Contents
• The service and emergency care systems in social and health care services
• Information retrieaval
• Key concepts of nursing
• Professional interaction
• Clinical decision-making
• The process, decision-making and documentation in nursing
• Principles of CRM and patient safety
• Arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security, data protection and information technology
• 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