Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

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.

Content (course unit)

- 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

Prerequisites (course unit)

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.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

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.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

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.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

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.

Location and time

Spring 2023

Exam schedules

Exams:​
Theory Exam week 17 on campus
1st retake: week 21 on campus
2nd retake: week 23 on campus

Medical calculations with the theory exam ( 100 % correct answer)​
+ other assignment given by teachers​

Assessment methods and criteria

Written nursing theory exam in spring 2023 graded 0 ( fail) - 5
Exams:​
Theory Exam week 17​
1st retake: week 21
2nd retake: week 23
Medical calculations with theory exam ( 100 % needs to be correct)
Active participating to a seminar

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Lectures on campus and online
Group work
Independent studies

Learning materials

mplementation plan will be updated before orientation
Anne-Marie Brady, Catherine McCabe, and Margaret McCann. 2014 "Fundamentals of Medical-Surgical Nursing : A Systems Approach" eBook by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Chapter 10: Principales of Emergency Nursing

Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing. 2017. Crouch, Robert ( Editor). Oxford University Press. E- book.
Chapters: 1, 2,3, 6, 7, 8, 9 ( excluding individual injuries), 10, 15 ( excluding facial trauma), 16 ( hypoglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, frostbite, hypothermia, Acid base disorders, respiratory and metabolic acidaemia,) 18, 19, 20

Critical Care Nursing : Monitoring and Treatment for Advanced Nursing Practice, edited by Kathy J. Booker, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tampere/detail.action?docID=1890993.


Adam, Sheila K., Sue Osborne, and John Welch. Critical Care Nursing : Science and Practice . 3 ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2017. Print. (Chapter 3, 4, 5, 6, 10)


All material and references given by teachers

Student workload

3 credits = 81 hrs of students work​
24 hrs of contact lessons

Mandatory seminar ( Case study)​ with pretask

Content scheduling

-

Completion alternatives

-

Practical training and working life cooperation

Lecture by organ donor co-ordinator from TAYSin autumn 2023? verified later, not material for the exam

International connections

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Further information

Implemention plan will be updated before orientation