Study Guide

Objective

The Student:
- can perform patient monitoring and basic patient surveillance, and act in a patient-safe manner
- can use technical equipment and key evidence-based nursing care methods
- can analyze the factors behind disturbances in vital functions, the changes they cause, and act accordingly
- can perform safe medication and fluid therapy
- can apply aseptic techniques
- can assess care needs, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care based on case descriptions and simulation exercises, and perform necessary evidence-based care measures in various care environments
- can apply the principles of interprofessional teamwork and communication
- can act as a member of a resuscitation team during advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- can act in crisis and disaster situations
- recognize the need for defusing
- can meet, support, and guide critically ill patients and their relatives
- can perform care planning and documentation according to the Finnish classification system

Content

Patient nursing care in acute situations with simulations or practical exercises
Patient monitoring and surveillance
Key care measures in medical, surgical, and emergency contexts
Aseptic techniques
Intravenous medication and fluid therapy (IV cannulation, central venous catheter, subcutaneous venous port, PICC)
Infusion and syringe pumps and fluid balance calculation
Various drains
Sutures and staples
Safe blood transfusion
Venipuncture
Pain management
Inhalation medications
Advanced resuscitation
ECG
Crisis and disaster preparedness
Defusing
Use of Terveysportti

Qualifications

No prior requisites

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Criteria for evaluation of the exam
The student has a superficial knowledge of the subject.

Assessment criteria for written work
The student has followed the instructions and their knowledge of the other students' work is inadequate. The student shows limited substance knowledge, it can be essential.

The student shows insufficient knowledge about the other students' written work. The student has followed the instructions for the written work. They have a deficient knowledge of the substance also touching the essential.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Criteria for evaluation of the exam
The student can account for the literature, reflect and motivate his / her views.

Assessment criteria for written work
The student has followed the instructions for the written work and shows insufficient knowledge about the other students' written work. The student master the substance of his work, but the application is limited.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Criteria for evaluation of the exam
The student shows in his answer an in-depth knowledge and maturity beyond the traditional.

Criteria for evaluation of written work individually or in groups
The student has followed the instructions for the written work and shows that she has mastered the substance. They have read the other participants' written work and can ask relevant questions and lead a discussion at the seminar. The written work and the possible opponentship show something out of the ordinary (technical execution, oral presentation, mature reflections, independent working methods).

The student has followed the instructions for the written work and shows that she has mastered the substance. They have read the other participants' work and can ask relevant questions and lead a discussion at the seminar.