Opinto-opas

Osaamistavoitteet

The Student
- masters essential evidence based knowledge and skills of the emergency and high dependency unit patient’s nursing;
- masters essential knowledge about monitoring, assessment and supporting of vital functions of the emergency and high dependency unit patient’s;
- understands the crisis caused by an acute situation and masters essential knowledge about supporting the patient and family.

Sisältö

- assessment of the care needs of an acutely ill
- care planning, implementation and evaluation of an acutely ill in varied care facilities
- non-invasive and invasive monitoring, assessing and supporting of vital functions of emergency and high dependency unit patients
- supporting acutely ill patient and the family
- evidence based acute care nursing

Esitietovaatimukset

Before starting the advanced studies of Medical–Surgical Nursing, the student must have completed 135 credits of studies including Anatomy and Physiology and all the middle phase courses concerning Medical Nursing and Surgical Nursing, including all orientations to clinical trainings of those subjects.

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1-2)

The Student
- understands, by providing rationales, evidence based knowledge on clinical nursing of emergency and high dependency units patients’;
- knows acute conditions’ fluid- and pharmacotherapy and calculates accurately;
- knows the theoretical basis of the different stages of the nursing process for acute patients’ while taking individuality, family and health promotion into consideration in emergency and high dependency nursing;
- knows the main principles of varied observation and nursing methods in emergency and high dependency nursing;
- understands ethical principles in nursing and knows how those are used in ethical decision making with acute patients in emergency and high dependency nursing;
- recognises the meaning of sustainability, patient safety, and professionalism with patients in emergency and high dependency units;
- knows the principles of guidance while taking into consideration the needs of the person with an acute condition and the family in emergency and high dependency nursing.

Arviointikriteerit, hyvä (3-4)

The Student
- partially masters evidence based knowledge on clinical nursing of acutely ill;
- mainly masters acute conditions’ fluid- and pharmacotherapy and calculates accurately;
- knows how to utilize knowledge in different stages of the nursing process for acutely ill patients’ while taking into consideration individuality, family and health promotion in emergency and high dependency nursing;
- understands varied observation and nursing methods in emergency and high dependency nursing;
- understands ethical principles in nursing and knows how them are used in ethical decision making in emergency and high dependency nursing;
- understands the meaning of sustainability, patient safety, and professionalism with emergency and high dependency units patients’;
- knows the principles of individual guidance while taking into consideration the needs of the acutely ill and the family in emergency and high dependency nursing.

Arviointikriteerit, kiitettävä (5)

The Student
- masters and is able to implement comprehensively evidence based knowledge in the care of emergency and high dependency unit patients;
- masters acute care’ fluid- and pharmacotherapy comprehensively and calculates accurately;
- is able to analyse and implement knowledge in different stages of the nursing process for acutely ill patients individually while taking family and health promotion into consideration in emergency and high dependency units;
- masters varied observation and nursing methods comprehensively in emergency and high dependency nursing;
- understands ethical principles in nursing and is able to implement them in ethical decision making with acutely ill patients in emergency and high dependency unit nursing;
- understands the meaning of sustainability, patient safety, and professionalism with acutely ill patients in emergency and high dependency units;
- masters individual guidance taking the needs of the acutely ill and the family into consideration in emergency and high dependency nursing.