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First Aid (2 cr)

Code: 7K00FK77-3009

General information


Enrolment period

23.07.2022 - 21.08.2022

Timing

22.08.2022 - 23.10.2022

Credits

2 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Emergency Care, Midwifery, Public Health Nursing

Campus

TAMK Main Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 52

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Public Health Nursing
  • Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Midwifery

Teachers

  • Tomi Salminen

Person in charge

Tuija Rasku

Groups

  • 22KL
    22KL
  • 22TH
    22TH

Objectives (course unit)

The Student
- is able to act based on evidence on his/her own initiative in different emergency situations in the most common illness and emergency situations taking into consideration safety and the need of mental first aid.

Content (course unit)

- recognition of emergency situations and call for help
- first aid for a person who is unconscious or suffering from a fit
- basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation and CPR-D (defibrillation) of children or adults
- first aid of trauma patients
- mental first aid

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

Pass
The student
- is able to apply his / her knowledge of first aid in case of illness and accident in a versatile way and to look at the first aid from several different perspectives and to give first aid justifying his / her own actions
- takes into account personal and other safety when providing first aid

Fail
The student
- not able to justify first aid
- does not take safety considerations into account when giving first aid

Assessment scale

0-5