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Acute Care (5 cr)

Code: ST00BK39-3002

General information


Enrollment

19.08.2019 - 15.09.2019

Timing

21.08.2019 - 20.09.2019

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

2 op

RDI portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

60 % Contact teaching, 40 % Distance learning

Campus

Social and Health Care

Teaching languages

  • English

Seats

15 - 25

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Sari Nieminen
  • ST_Opettaja_ HOTI_01 Virtuaaliopettaja
  • Tiina Jokinen

Groups

  • 08NUR17S
    , Lahti
  • 08EXC19KS
  • 08NUR17S2
    , 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 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 the care principles of acute and chronic pain management (1 ECTS)

Implementation and methods of teaching

Lectures
Skills lab
Seminar
Simulation
Individual tasks

Additional information for students: previous knowledge etc.

As written in Curriculum
Compulsory attendance at least at in skills lab, seminar and simulation

Assessment criteria

Simulation: passed - failed
Seminar: 1-5
Individual tasks: passed-failed
Anesthesiology: passed-failed