Study Guide

Objective

Team work, multi-professional co-operation.
Professional actions in acute situations in hospital care.
Most typical ALS situations.

Content

Basic First Aid
Monitoring the patient's vital functions by using ABCDE-protocol and NEWS.
Advanced Life Support
Different care situations for most common medical, surgical, cardiac, respiratory and neurological acute and critically ill patients.

Materials

Materials provided by teachers

Teaching methods

Simulations
independent studying of advanced life support, resuscitation, assessing heart failure and neurological patients

Student workload

1 ECTS is 27 hours of students work

Further information

Attending to the classes is compulsory

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail (0)
The student
is not able to use co-operation skills
does not demonstrate adequate skills or knowledge in patients' advanced life support
does not follow aseptical rules in patient care
does not demonstrate adequate skills or knowledge in patient's acute care

Assessment methods and criteria

Skills test
peer review

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Fail (0)
The student
is not able to use co-operation skills
does not demonstrate adequate skills or knowledge in patients' advanced life support
does not follow aseptical rules in patient care
does not demonstrate adequate skills or knowledge in patient's acute care