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Intensive Care Nursing (5 cr)

Code: TH00BW00-3002

General information


Enrollment

30.11.2023 - 15.01.2024

Timing

14.12.2023 - 25.03.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Emergency Care

Teachers

  • Jari Säämänen

Scheduling groups

  • LAB A (Size: 12. Open UAS: 0.)
  • LAB B (Size: 12. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • PENHOS21

Small groups

  • LAB A
  • LAB B
  • 09.01.2024 10:00 - 12:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 11.01.2024 10:00 - 12:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 12.01.2024 08:00 - 10:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 16.01.2024 09:00 - 12:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002 Prekliininen harjoittelu 1
  • 16.01.2024 13:00 - 16:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002 Prekliininen harjoittelu 1
  • 22.01.2024 10:00 - 12:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 23.01.2024 08:00 - 10:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 23.01.2024 14:00 - 17:00, TOTEK leikkuri
  • 01.02.2024 09:00 - 12:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002 Prekliininen harjoittelu 2
  • 01.02.2024 10:00 - 11:30, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 02.02.2024 09:00 - 12:00, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002 Prekliininen harjoittelu 2
  • 02.02.2024 13:00 - 15:15, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002 Prekliininen harjoittelu 3
  • 06.02.2024 14:15 - 16:30, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002 Prekliininen harjoittelu 3
  • 08.02.2024 08:00 - 12:00, Simulaatioharjoitus, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 08.02.2024 14:00 - 17:00, TOTEK TEHO
  • 12.02.2024 08:00 - 12:00, Simulaatioharjoitus, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 13.02.2024 08:00 - 12:00, Simulaatioharjoitus, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002
  • 16.02.2024 08:15 - 10:00, Tentti, Tehohoitotyö TH00BW00-3002

Objective

Objectives
• Students will know the safety risks of an intensive care environment and how to use patient examination, monitoring and care instruments safely for the purpose of intensive care.
• Students will know how to assess an intensive care customer’s need for treatment and urgency and will be able to make independent decisions, while identifying their limits and using consultation for support
• Students will know how to actively participate in multiprofessional working groups according to ethical principles
• Students will know the special features of intensive care and the treatment and examination methods used
• Students will understand the special features of pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy of intensive care patients and will gain more in-depth understanding of the medical therapy of an intensive care patient
• Students will be able to acknowledge the needs of the people close to the patient in intensive care and support them using various applicable methods
• Will know how to apply the principles of sustainable development in their tasks

Content

Contents
• Definition of intensive care and the competence of an intensive care nurse, multiprofessional working group, ICUnurse
• Observation and treatment of the circulatory system of an intensive care patient
• Observation and treatment of the respiration of an intensive care patient (ventilation patient care)
• Observation and treatment of the neurological condition of critically ill patients
• Observation and care of gastroenterological patients
• Observation and treatment of the kidneys of an intensive care patient
• Assessment, planning and provision of pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy and nutritional care for an intensive care patient
• The key effects, indications, contraindications, side and adverse effects of medication used in intensive care
• Basic treatment and rehabilitation of intensive care patients
• Paying attention to the special needs of and support for family members in the treatment of critically ill patients
• Ethics of intensive care nursing

Evaluation scale

H-5