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

Theory spring 2024
Mandatory group work spring 2024
Mandatory online seminar ( case study) autumn 2024
Skills lab/ simulation autumn 2024, mandatory 100% active partcipation

Exam schedules

Exam in exam ( video controlled space) weeks 33-34 ( week 33 they are not in clinical practise)
1st retake : weeks 38-39
2nd retake: weeks 42-43
Changed 8.7.2024
Medical calculations with the theory exam ( 100 % correct answer)
In retakes you can do either nursing theory exam or medical calculations or both
If any answer would cause serious harm or would be lethal the whole exam is failed

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam in exam ( video controlled space) weeks 33-34 ( week 33 they are not in clinical practise)
1st retake : weeks 38-39
2nd retake: weeks 42-43
Changed 8.7.2024

Orientation is not mandatory, but highly recommended. If the student is not present, it is his/ her responsibility to find out about topics discussed, eg group work

Mandatory group presentation seminar May
Mandatory online seminar ( case study ) autumn 2024
Assignments given by teachers
Mandatory 100 % active participation in Skills labs/ simulations/ November 2024
If absent:
1 credit= 27 hrs of student's work. Compensation: 27 hrs extra practical training in acute care setting

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Implementation plan will be updated before orientation

Learning materials

Implementation 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 of theory= 81 hrs of students work
20 hrs of theoretical contact lessons spring 2024
Online case study seminar autumn 2024 4 hrs
1 credit skills lab/ simulations

Content scheduling

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Completion alternatives

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Practical training and working life cooperation

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International connections

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