Study Guide

Objective

1) Professionalism and ethics
The student
- can work in accordance with the values, ethical principles and guidelines of perioperative nursing and can assess their implementation in daily work.
- be able to work in accordance with current legislation and information guidance.
- has adopted the professional identity of a nurse.
- is able to work in a professional role in perioperative nursing and to take responsibility for the consequences of his/her work.
- is able to assess and develop his/her own competence.
- has the capacity to intervene in unprofessional work.
- recognizes the limits of their capacity, seeks support and makes use of available forms of support.
- understands the career development opportunities for nurses.
- knows how to comply with health and safety guidelines.
- values the client/patient and sees them as experts and actors in their own lives.
- can deal with vulnerable client groups in nursing care.

2) Communication and information technology
The student
- can communicate professionally.
- can interact professionally and therapeutically with patients of different ages and backgrounds and their relatives.
- is able to communicate and interact independently in one national language, a second national language and at least one foreign language.
- understands the responsibilities of self and other social and health care professionals and the importance of a controlled and flexible division of labour in the provision of comprehensive care for the perioperative patient.
- can work in multidisciplinary teams and settings and networks with good interpersonal skills.
- is able to create, use, store and destroy data in accordance with data protection and security requirements and regulations in the social and health care sector.
- is able to appropriately record the care process of a perioperative patient and assess the timeliness, consistency and quality of the information recorded in the patient information system.
- is able to use health information technology, electronic databases and reporting tools.
- is able to comply with online etiquette, email rules and procedures and use social media as a nursing professional.

3) Health promotion and guidance skills
The student
- can apply current health promotion research and other evidence to patient care.
- can identify health risk factors in their patients and target early support to those who need it.
- can design and implement health and activity promotion interventions for individuals and groups with patients and in multidisciplinary collaboration.
- can assess the patient's needs, resources and personal responsibility in the planning and self-management of care.
- can plan, implement and evaluate individual and group counselling in collaboration with the patient and other professionals.
- is able to plan, implement and evaluate patient self-care counselling on pedagogical and ethical grounds.
- is able to support patients and their relatives in their commitment to treatment.
- is familiar with the care pathway of the perioperative patient and knows the basics of service management.

4) Leadership, employee skills and entrepreneurship
The student
- can prioritize their work flexibly according to the situation.
- is able to manage themselves and the situation.
- can motivate members of his/her work community and give and receive feedback.
- can supervise students and colleagues.
- is able to develop and adapt his/her work in line with changes in the social and health care sector.
- understands the concept of internal entrepreneurship and is committed to applying it in his/her work.
- has the basic skills to be an independent entrepreneur in the field.
- masters the principles of cost-consciousness in their field of activity and work in an economical and sustainable way.
- is able to identify, in a reflective way with the work community, areas for improvement and needs for change in his/her own work.
- is able to participate as a member of a team in development, innovation and research processes.

5) Clinical nursing
The student
- can respond to the needs of the patient by planning, implementing and evaluating appropriate and individualized care in collaboration with the patient, relatives and other social and health professionals.
- possesses knowledge and skills in the key surgical procedures and interventions required in perioperative nursing as part of the overall care of the patient.
- masters the principles of asepsis and infection control and is able to apply this knowledge in perioperative nursing care.
- can apply knowledge of anatomy and physiology when planning, implementing and evaluating the care of the surgical patient.
- is able to apply knowledge of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, applied pharmacology and the implementation of drug therapy in the planning of treatment, the planning, implementation and evaluation of perioperative drug therapy.
- has command of legislation and information guidance relating to drug therapy.
- has knowledge of the principles and methods of family nursing.
- can use a variety of methods to support the psycho-social and conscientious needs of patients and their families.

6) Evidence-based action, research and decision-making
The student
- understands and commits to evidence-based practice in perioperative nursing.
- can safely and confidently plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing practice.
- contributes to the development of evidence-based practice in their own work.
- can search for information in the most common health sciences databases and can read and critically evaluate scientific publications.
- can make clinical decisions based on evidence.
- can use scientific knowledge in clinical decision-making.

7) Social and health care service system
The student
- understands the organisation of social and health care, the ways in which services are provided and organised, as well as the governance and supervision in Finland.
- understands the roles of the different activities and service units as part of the care and service chain.
- understands his/her role in building the reputation, brand and image of the organisation and in creating the customer service experience.
- knows how to use electronic services as part of the overall care of the patient.
- can work in an evolving environment and implement service management.

8) Patient and client safety
The student
- masters the key knowledge base of patient and client safety.
- can promote patient safety and prevent incidents at all stages of the patient care process.
- communicates clearly to ensure patient safety.
- is able to act immediately in the event of an incident.
- is able to identify potential incidents and make an incident report.
- understands the process for handling an incident report.

Content

- Nurses' duties, responsibilities and well-being at work in perioperative nursing
- Evidence-based nursing and the development of perioperative nursing
- Different patient groups in perioperative nursing
- Multi-professionalism and teamwork
- Patient safety in perioperative nursing
- Implementation of asepsis in perioperative nursing
- Guidance for perioperative patients and their next-of-kin
- Perioperative documentation and reporting
- Ethics and values in perioperative nursing
- Patient preoperative preparation
- Technology, intsruments and other equipment and their maintenance in perioperative nursing
- The most common surgical positions
- The most common surgical techniques
- Different forms of anesthesia, patient preparation and monitoring
- Medication and fluid therapy, pain management in perioperative nursing and drug calculations.
-Recovery Room - nursing

Qualifications

Basics of Clinical Nursing
Evidence Based Clinical Competence Modules 1-3
Safe Medication and Fluid Therapy Skills
At least 150 ECTS of basic studies

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
The student
- uses the knowledge base of client-centred perioperative nursing in a poor way.
- satisfactorily seeks information and justifies client-centred perioperative nursing practice using evidence-based knowledge.
- applies professional knowledge of client-centred perioperative nursing in a variety of nursing situations satisfactorily.
- can act in a customer-oriented and patient-safe manner in perioperative nursing, taking into account ethical principles.
- has adequate professional decision-making skills in client-oriented clinical nursing.
- has the capacity to develop client-oriented perioperative nursing care.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
The student
- can apply the concepts and knowledge of client-oriented perioperative nursing fluently and comprehensively.
- can critically evaluate and use evidence-based knowledge in client-centred perioperative nursing.
- applies professional client-centred clinical nursing knowledge in a proactive manner and is able to make independent decisions in different client-centred perioperative nursing situations.
- acts in a customer-oriented, responsible and patient-safe manner in customer-oriented perioperative nursing care.
- can apply alternative client-centred clinical nursing solutions to professional decision-making in client-centred perioperative nursing.
- assesses the professional ethics and safety of nurses in client-centred perioperative nursing care.
- works as an expert in client-centred clinical nursing in multidisciplinary teams and projects in collaboration with culturally diverse people in client-centred perioperative nursing.
- can develop himself / herself and the working community in a systematic way in client-centred perioperative nursing.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
The student
- demonstrates mastery of the knowledge base of nursing science and apply it competently in client-oriented perioperative nursing care.
- independently seeks, uses and critically evaluates international, evidence-based nursing knowledge in client-centred clinical nursing care.
- applies professional client-centred clinical nursing knowledge in a proactive manner and is able to make independent decisions in a variety of client-centred perioperative nursing situations and settings.
- takes responsibility for the overall client/patient care and service process in client-centred perioperative nursing.
- generates innovative and alternative solutions in professional decision-making in client-centred perioperative nursing.
- develops the professional ethics and safety of nurses in client-centred perioperative nursing care.
- develops the performance of client-centred clinical nursing as an expert in multidisciplinary teams and projects in collaboration with culturally diverse people.
- works in a goal-oriented and career-oriented way to develop himself/ herself, the profession and professional life in client-oriented perioperative nursing.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
The student
- has an insufficient appreciation and use of the knowledge base of client-centred perioperative nursing.
- provides inadequate justification for client-centred perioperative nursing practice.
- applies professional knowledge of client-centred perioperative nursing inadequately.
- is not able to act in a sufficiently customer-oriented and patient-safe manner in customer-oriented perioperative nursing.
- has insufficient professional decision-making skills in client-centred perioperative nursing.
- does not take sufficient account of professional safety and ethical principles in client-centred perioperative care.
- has insufficient capacity to develop client-centred perioperative nursing care.

Further information

Study methods:
Contact teaching, seminar teaching, skill-labs, simulations, independent study, drug calculations.
Evaluation of the course:
Written exams and tests, medical bills
Seminar assignment