Surgical Nursing and Health TechnologyLaajuus (7 cr)

Objective

Students implement under supervision multi-professional nursing care for surgically ill patients while taking into consideration the patient's age, growth and development stage, the requirements of ethicality and the care and service setting. Under supervision students know how to assess the resources of patients and families from different cultural backgrounds and know how to support them in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Under supervision students plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions for surgically ill patients and family members of all ages facing common surgical procedures. Students use evidence-based interventions developed for surgical, perioperative and gynaecological nursing to help, support and counsel patients and family members of all ages. Students observe the principles of pain alleviation and asepsis throughout the care of surgical patients. They know how to monitor and care for different wounds. Students are under supervision improving in common nursing procedures and diagnostic examinations used as part of surgical, perioperative and gynaecological patients' total care. Students improve their knowledge how to support and promote surgically ill patients' and families' health, self-care, rehabilitation and ability to function. Under supervision they are able to help and support disabled and injured patients and the patients' families. Students are under supervision able to help and support pain patients of all ages and alleviate their pain. Students are under supervision able to counsel patients before and after common radiological examinations. In their work, students use current surgical, anaesthesiological and gynaecological knowledge. Students use technology and digital services throughout the care and service pathways. They are aware of their responsibility and ensure patient safety.

Content

Health promotion, self-care support and rehabilitation in nursing with surgical, perioperative or gynaecological patients and their families. Nursing interventions (FinCC) in surgical, perioperative and gynaecological nursing. The national documentation model for nursing. Effica. The impact of the patient's age, sex, cultural background, growth and development stage and care and service setting on the care of acutely ill patients and their families. Assessment of nursing needs and monitoring vital functions in surgical, perioperative or gynaecological patients. Essential examinations, nursing procedures and diagnostic examinations in surgical, perioperative and gynaecological nursing. Pre, intra and postoperative nursing, rehabilitation and counselling. Asepsis in surgical, perioperative or gynaecological nursing. Pain control. Nursing, rehabilitation and counselling of disabled and injured patients. Multiprofessionalism in the care of surgical, perioperative or gynaecological patients. Radiation safety and radiological examinations. A safe nursing environment. The safe use of common technology in examinations and treatments throughout the care and service pathways for patients of all ages. Surgery, anaesthesiology and gynaecological diseases.

Qualifications

Basics of Clinical Nursing 1 and 2.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
Students
-use the knowledge foundation of client-centred clinical nursing narrowly
-on a satisfactory level, seek information and use evidence-based knowledge to explain their actions in client-centred clinical nursing
-on a satisfactory level, implement their competence in client-centred clinical nursing in various nursing/public health nursing situations
-are capable of client-centred and safe clinical practice based on ethical principles
-possess adequate skills in client-centered clinical decision-making
-are to some extent prepared to develop client-centred clinical nursing

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
Students
-competently and extensively use the concepts and knowledge of client-centred clinical nursing
-evaluate and critically use evidence-based knowledge in client-centred clinical nursing
- implement their competence in client-centred clinical nursing in an anticipatory manner and are capable of independent decision-making in various client-centred clinical nursing situations
-are capable of client-centred, responsible and safe clinical practice
-apply alternative solutions to decision-making in client-centred clinical nursing
-evaluate action and safety in client-centred clinical nursing based on professional ethical principles of nursing/public health nursing
-act as experts of client-centred clinical nursing in multidisciplinary teams and projects in collaboration with people who represent different cultures
- purposefully develop themselves and their working community in client-centred clinical nursing

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
Students
-demonstrate competence in the nursing scientific knowledge base and competently apply this knowledge to client-centred clinical nursing
-independently seek, use and critically evaluate international evidence-based nursing scientific knowledge in client-centred clinical nursing
- implement their competence in client-centred clinical nursing in an anticipatory manner and are capable of independent decision-making in various client-centred clinical nursing situations
-assume responsibility for the patient's/client's care and service process in client-centred clinical nursing
-create innovative alternative solutions to decision-making in client-centred clinical nursing
-develop action and safety based on the professional ethics of nursing/public health nursing in client-centred clinical nursing
-as experts of client-centred clinical nursing, develop action in multidisciplinary teams and projects in collaboration with people who represent different cultures
- develop themselves, their profession and practice in client-centred clinical nursing purposefully, with a career-oriented approach

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
Students
- do not adequately appreciate or use the knowledge base of client-centred clinical nursing
- are not adequately able to give reasons for their chosen actions in client-centred clinical nursing
-are not adequately able to apply to practice their knowledge of client-centred clinical nursing
-are not capable of adequate client-centred and safe clinical practice
-do not possess adequate decision-making skills for client-centred clinical nursing
-do not adequately take into consideration safety or ethical principles in client-centred clinical nursing
-are not prepared to develop client-centred clinical nursing