Practical Training in Basic Level Emergency Care (8 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

Objectives
• Students will learn to use their knowledge base of emergency nursing to analyse people’s need for care and learn to identify the essential information for each care situation.
• Students will learn to take responsibility, under supervision, for the systematic examination of patients (ABCDE), recognize abnormalities in the vital signs and identify life-threatening situations, as well as practice making preliminary diagnosis.
• Students will develop their skills in interacting with patients and creating a respectful nurse-patient relationship.
• Students will learn to interact professionally and engage in a care relationship with people of different ages and from different cultural backgrounds.
• Students will learn to apply the key principles of nursing and the methods of basic level emergency care for the purpose of planning and providing care to patients.
• Students will become familiar with the safe operation of examination, care and transfer devices.
• Students will learn to follow the work-pair approach.
• Students will know the CRM principles and learn how to act accordingly.
• Students will learn to provide patients and their family members with guidance for promoting health and treating illness.
• Students will know how to make ethically based decisions in various care situations.
• Students will understand their responsibility in preventing infections in emergency care and will know how to use aseptic techniques in different treatment situations.
• Students will improve their competence in basic level pharmacotherapy and can monitor the impacts and effectiveness of pharmacotherapy (medication passport) and will get acquainted with the pharmacotherapy plan of the unit.
• Students will learn to document and report on the treatment of emergency care patients.
• Students will learn to communicate professionally in care and consultation situations with the patient and the team participating in the patient’s treatment.
• Students will become proficient in basic VIRVE communication.

Content

Contents:
• Assessment of the need for care of different types of people and planning of their care employing the knowledge base of emergency care
• Systematical examination of patients (ABCDE), recognition of disorders of vital functions and conditions threatening the life of patients and making a preliminary diagnosis
• Respectful encounter with the patient and building a care relationship
• Professional interaction in a care relationship with people of different ages and from different cultural backgrounds.
• Key principles of nursing and the methods of basic level emergency care in the planning and providing of care to patients
• Safe operation of examination, care and transfer devices
• Following the principles of pair work in tasks
• Principles of CRM and work accordingly
• Providing guidance for patients and their family members in health promotion and treating illness
• Making solutions ethically and with valid reasons in various situations of care
• Prevention of infection and aseptic techniques
• Pharmacotherapeutic competence, medication plan of the unit
• Documentation and reporting
• Professional communication in care and consultation situations
• Basics of VIRVE communication