Emergency Room Nursing (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

The student shall be able to- understand the entirety of care of patients of different ages in the hospital emergency room, the points of departure for the care and its specific features, and learn to apply the obligations set by professional ethics and legislation- understand the significance and specific features of emergency room nursing and form a conception of the most common problems dealt with in the emergency room- define the problems in the nursing of the patient and to respond to them and the needs of the patient’s family members in a holistic way using the measures of acute nursing and medical science- act in multi-professional expert teams in the emergency room in treatment situations requiring it- describe the safety hazards in the emergency room and know how to ensure the safety of their activities- master the principles of documentation and reporting- increase their readiness in implementing the medication and fluids infusion of patients (medication passport)- increase their skills in the safe use of the equipment used in the emergency room for the examination, monitoring and treatment of patients and learn to interpret the information given by these instruments- describe the principles of plastering and splinting- describe the examination and treatment of a multiple trauma patient in the trauma team and know the main features in the examination and medical treatment of non-mechanically injured patients

Content

Emergency and critical care service and service providersTreatment processes of patients with different disorders and injuries in accident and emergency nursing