Skills labs in Outpatient, Acute and in Critical Care Nursing (3cr)

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Objective

The student knows the structure of the service provision system, the collaborating authorities and typical service pathways for various client groups in critical care. The student knows the principals in health promotion in acute and critical care. The student becomes competent in identifying the needs of patients and their next-of-kin, as well as in planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting acute and critical care. The student is able to assess patient’s needs in outpatient, acute and in critical care.

Content

Under supervision the student practices
-care and service provision system for acute and critically ill adult patients,
-pre-hospital care,
-emergency and ICU as care environments,
-main concepts and different care situations for most common medical, surgical, cardiac, respiratory and neurological acute and critically ill patients.
-adult patient ALS

Materials

literature given in course and moodle

Teaching methods

simulations and skill labs

Student workload

1 ECTS= 27h of student works

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Fail = 0
The student
- is not familiar with the concept of outpatient, acute and critical care nursing
- does not recognize factors that influence the quality of outpatient, acute and critical care nursing
- does not relate concepts to the learning objectives of the course/ instructions, nor adequately comprehends the concepts.
- The student has not actively participated in lessons
- The student has not done the required tasks
- The student does not follow professionalism in skills labs
- The student does not work aseptically in skills labs
- The student takes and/ or gives feedback in an unprofessional manner.

Qualifications

First and second year theory studies and clinical trainings

Further information

simulations and skill labs are obligatory