Acute Care (5 cr)
Code: ST00BG53-3004
General information
Enrollment
25.11.2019 - 19.01.2020
Timing
18.02.2020 - 23.03.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
3 op
Mode of delivery
40 % Contact teaching, 60 % Distance learning
Unit
Faculty of Health Care and Social Services (LAB)
Campus
Lahti Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 30
Degree programmes
- Bachelor's Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
- Sari Nieminen
- Tia Windahl
- Maria Tuominen
Groups
-
08SH18K, Lahti
Learning outcomes
The student is able to
- plan, implement and evaluate the safe care and medical treatment of acutely ill patients in different environments
- describe crisis theories and apply them in supporting patients and their significant others in acute crises
- perceive risks and dangerous situations and is able to develop practices regarding patient safety in acute care
- describe the operating procedure and communications in sudden exceptional and dangerous situations and explain the communication practices of public authorities
- describe theoretically the process of critical thinking and its significance in acute care decision making
- implement advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) abiding to patient safety to treat an acute ill or disabled patient (in simulation)
- describe the general guidelines of anesthetic care, intensive care, and emergency care and describe
Assessment scale
1-5