Study Guide

Objective

Objectives

Students will
• Understand the key concepts of nursing
• Acknowledge the values, principles and key concepts that steer nursing
• Acknowledge the principles of professional interaction and cooperation
• Know how to apply the nursing process in decision-making and documentation
• Know how to apply the national documentation model of nursing in nursing documentation
• Acknowledge the key principles of patient safety
• Be able to ensure that patient safety is realized in their own operations and those of the work community
• Know how to determine patients’ resources and need for care and determine the needs and objectives of care, as well as to plan and provide key nursing assistance methods to promote the resources of customers/patients
• Understand the principles of aseptic techniques, ergonomics, pain and treatment of chronic wounds and be able to apply the acquired knowledge in nursing
• Know how to assess the need for urgent care in a systematic manner and be able to act in situations where emergency care is needed
• Understand the principles and have the ability to act as a nurse in the context of encountering death
• Know the meaning of care-related infections and the management of infection risks
• Understand the meaning of hand hygiene, use of protective devices, a safe care environment
• Know the basics of microbiology and the meaning of immunity and the defence system
• Be familiar with the knowledge base and purpose of vaccination

Content

Contents
• Key concepts of nursing
• Values, principles and key concepts that steer nursing
• Professional interaction and clear communications
• Nursing process, decision-making in nursing and documentation in nursing
• The basics of patient safety and arranging a safe treatment environment
• Information security and data protection
• Aseptic techniques, infection prevention, hand hygiene, precautions and isolation arrangements
• Ergonomic working and assisting in patient’s mobility
• 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
• First aid and basic resuscitation
• Key terminology
• Immunity and immunization, management of infection risks and hygiene recommendations
• The most common care-related infections and the microbes causing them

Evaluation scale

H-5