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Advanced Perioperative Nursing Studies (5 cr)

Code: TH00BV61-3007

General information


Enrollment

01.11.2024 - 01.01.2025

Timing

06.01.2025 - 07.02.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Campus

  • Kupittaa Campus
  • Location-independent

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

10 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Tuija Leinonen

Groups

  • MSHTK22A
  • MSAISS22
  • PSHTK22A
  • PSHTK22B
  • PSHTS22B
  • PSHTS22V
  • PSHSS22A
  • PSHTS22A
  • PSHSK22A

Objective

ADVANCED PERIOPERATIVE NURSING STUDY UNIT, 5 ECTS PESY

Objectives
Students will
• Become familiar with the special characteristics of the anaesthesia and surgery of patients from different patient groups
• Know how to act in the different roles of nurses in a surgical team
• Become familiar with different surgical methods applied in the treatment of surgical patients
• Become familiar with common anaesthetics and anaesthetic methods and the related dosage calculation methods
• Know any rare reactions and complications related to anaesthesia
• Know how to perform massive fluid therapy and blood transfusion during surgery
• Know how to perform perioperative nursing on infectious patients
• Know how to alleviate the pain of surgical patients
• Master aseptic techniques in perioperative nursing
• Know how to apply their evidence-based operations to develop perioperative nursing
• Know how to ensure patient safety in perioperative nursing and the related reporting procedures
• Know how to document and report perioperative nursing procedures
• Know how to act professionally and collegially in a surgical team and gain proficiency in evaluating their own activities by accepting and giving feedback as a member of the team
• Know how to pay attention to economics and ecology

Content

Contents
• Aseptic techniques in perioperative nursing
• Surgical and anaesthetic nursing in different surgical fields and for different patient groups with special needs
• Patient safety in perioperative nursing
• Common special and emergency situations at surgical wards

Evaluation scale

H-5