Advanced Level Emergency Nursing (9 cr)
Code: TH00BW02-3006
General information
Enrollment
02.10.2024 - 12.01.2025
Timing
14.01.2025 - 15.04.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
9 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
ETKDipa
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Emergency Care
Teachers
- Saimi Ristimäki
- Jaana Koskela
- Jani Paulin
- Lasse Putko
Groups
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MENHOK25
- 10.02.2025 14:00 - 22:00, KRISU-suuronnettomuusharjoitus
- 11.02.2025 14:00 - 22:00, KRISU-suuronnettomuusharjoitus
Objective
Objectives
• Students will deepen their competence in the health issues of people of different ages, emergency care administered to support the vital functions of patients and will be able to independently determine the urgency and make a preliminary diagnosis of care in accordance with the principles of CRM
• Students have the competence to lead a team in an emergency care situation
• Students will gain a more in-depth understanding in collaboration between authorities, will be able to use it to organize emergency care and further treatment for patients with multiple disorders and their family members for example
• Students will learn to take environmental safety risks into consideration and ensure operating safety in special emergency care situations
• Students will become familiar with the authorities’ fields of management and responsibilities in different types of accidents and will master the patient classification in major accidents
• Students will understand the principles according to which refraining from providing care is justified by the patient’s best interests
Content
Contents
• Interviewing and examining patients of different ages (ABCDE), assessment of need for care and the resources needed, making preliminary diagnoses and providing palliative emergency care in demanding emergency care situations
• Working in pairs, work with CRM
• Taking the lead in situations
• Safe use of advanced level care and examination equipment in emergency care
• Pharmacotherapy in advanced level emergency care
• Documentation and reporting (ISBAR)
• VIRVE communities in different demanding operating environments
• A work method that promotes the patient’s resources, command of aseptic techniques and ergonomic working methods in emergency care situations
• The most common situations in which emergency care is needed for acute and injured patients and how to manage them
• Advanced tactical resuscitation protocol in accordance with the Current Care Guidelines
• Emergency vehicle operations and safe management of the vehicle
• Collaboration with authorities, their fields of management and responsibilities in different types of accidents
• Psychological well-being of emergency nurses and coping at work
• Ethically special cases of emergency care
• Environmental safety risks and the securing of operating safety
Evaluation scale
H-5