Practical training in acute or perioperative nursing (6cr)

Objective

COMPETENCE IN CUSTOMERHIP IN HEALTH CARE, DECISION-MAKING COMPETENCE AND ETHICAL COMPETENCE

Under supervision, students will be competent in identifying needs of patients and their families and in planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting nursing care. Students will learn the structure of the service provision system, the collaborating authorities and common service parthways in emergency services. Students will learn to give oral reports under supervision. They will also be competent in dealing with patients in various life situations. They will follow the principles of patient-oriented, resource-based and multi-professional nursing of patients and their families. Students will utilise information and nursing technology and equipment. Students will apply nursing ethical principles to outpatient and acute nursing care.

CLINICAL COMPETENCE

Students will be competent in identifying and evaluating changes and disorders in a patient's basic vital functions and, under supervision, in initiating appropriate nursing interventions. Students will, under supervision,be able to recognise individual rehabilitation needs of patients and to support them during the rehabilitation process. Under supervision, students will be competent in preparing patients for treatment and monitoring and caring for them during and after the treatment. Studentswill follow asepsis in outpatient and acute nursing. Students will, under supervision, be able to implement common treatments, procedures and examinations in intensive care. Under supervision, they will implement intravenous fluid, drug and nutritional care and blood transfusions. Students will learn to recognize pain and will, under supervision, know how to plan, implement and evaluate pain control. They will learn central methods of anaesthesia and related nursing procedures.

COMPETENCE IN HEALTH PROMOTION

Students will observe principles of promoting and supporting the health and resources of patients in multi-professional nursing. Students will learn the main factors that influence the health and illness of patients. They will know the occupational health principles pertaining to physical and mental safety that are important in the maintenance and promotion of their own wellbeing at work.

COUNSELLING AND MENTORING COMPETENCE

Under supervision, students will be competent to apply research and evidence-based knowledge to counsel patients on health and illness issues. Students will, under supervision, know how to plan, implement and evaluate counselling situations.

LEARNING COMPETENCE

Students will be competent in critically evaluating their level of professional expertise with regard to their strengths and weaknesses. Students will reflect on and evaluate their competences and skills.

Content

Students apply theoretical studies in practice in different learning environments.

Qualifications

No previous studies are required.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The same criteria as for the course Perioperative Nursing, Nursing in Out-Patient Clinics , Emergency Nursing and Intensive Care Nursing.

Materials

The same literature as in the study courses Outpatient nursing, Emergency nursing and Intensive care nursing.

Teaching methods

Practical training in clinical settings, learning contract, written task, independent studies