Study Guide

Objective

The student
-implements multi-professional nursing care for surgical patients while taking into consideration the patient's age, growth and development stage, the requirements of ethicality and the care and service setting.
-knows how to assess the resources of patients and families from different cultural backgrounds and how to support them in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
-can plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions for patients and their next-of-kin facing common surgical treatments.
-is able to do documentation and oral reporting.
-can handle patients of different ages and their next-of-kin by adapting evidence-based surgical / perioperative nursing methods to help, support and counsel patients and their next-of-kin.
-is competent in common nursing procedures and diagnostic examinations used as part of acute or chronically ill patients' comprehensive care.
-knows how to safely plan, implement and evaluate drug and fluid care and blood transfusions for adult patients.
-knows how to implement nutritional care.
-knows how to support and promote patients' and their next-of-kin's health and ability to function.
-is able to help and support patients of all ages and their next-of-kin.
-is able to counsel and support patients of all ages and their next-of-kin in self-care.
-is able to take into consideration asepsis and to explain why this is important in nursing care.
-can evaluate his/ her professional competence critically from the perspectives of strengths and development needs.

Content

Practical training in settings which allow the student to practice operative surgical nursing.
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Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

x

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
The student
- does not know how to search information required in individual situations in client-centered clinical nursing.
- cannot demonstrate the ability to use the knowledge base of client-centered clinical nursing.
- does not make a difference between everyday knowledge and evidence-based knowledge in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not competent to work in individual client-centered clinical nursing situations even if instructed.
- cannot demonstrate awareness of the ethical principles for registered nurses in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is not competent to work as a member of a team or to share his/her knowledge in client-centered clinical nursing.
- is unable to analyse his/her strengths or development needs in client-centered clinical nursing.
- patient safety is at risk.

Further information

It is possible that in these clinical training environments may also be under-aged patients. Therefore, the student must present a criminal record certificate before starting this training.