Intensive Care Nursing

Structure Type:	Course
Code:	KG29AO10003
Type:	Compulsory
Level:	Bachelor
Credits:	2.0 points
Responsible Teacher:	Palo, Raija
Teacher Team:	Paussu, Paula ; Salminen-Tuomaala, Mari
Language of Instruction:	English

Course Implementations, Planned Year of Study and Semester

Curriculum	Semester	Credits	Start of Semester	End of Semester
NURSING-2013FIN	3 spring	2.0	2016-01-01	2016-07-31
NURSING-2013FOR	3 spring	2.0	2016-01-01	2016-07-31

Learning Outcomes

COMPETENCE IN CUSTOMERSHIP 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 and common service parthways in intensive care. Students will know how to give oral reports under supervision. They will also be competent in dealing with patients in various life situations. They will recognise principles of patient-oriented, resource-based and multi-professional nursing of patients and their families. Students will know how to utilise information and nursing technology and equipment. Students will apply nursing ethical principles to intensive care nursing.

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. Students will follow asepsis in intensive care nursing. Students will, under supervision, be able to implement common treatments, procedures and examinations. Under supervision, they will be able to implement intravenous fluid, drug and nutritional care and blood transfusions. Students will learn to recognize pain and, under supervision, to plan, implement and evaluate pain control.

COMPETENCE IN HEALTH PROMOTION

Students will follow the principles of promoting and supporting the health and resources of the patient. Students will learn the main factors that influence the health and illness of patients. They will learn 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, be able 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.

Student's Workload

Will be announced at the beginning of the course.

Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses

No prerequisites

Securing the patient's vital functions in acute problems. Nursing intensive care patients on a ventilator. Nursing cardiac patients in CCU. Written and spoken information and documentation in intensive nursing.

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Interactive and action-based learning methods, lectures, independent studies

Assessment Criteria

5
Students
- know how to describe intensive care nursing as part of the patient's care pathway in specialised medical services
- recognise changes and dysfunctions in intensive care patient's vital functions
- under supervision, are able to carry out nursing interventions in intensive care and to evaluate their effectiveness
- are competent to plan and carry out safely central fluid- and drug care of intensive care patients and to evaluate their effectiveness
- are competent to apply nursing technology and to give reports in intensive care nursing
- are competent to encounter intensive care patients and their families professionally
- are able to recognise intensive care patients' and families' psychological needs and needs for counselling

3-4
Students
- understand how intensive care nursing is part of the patient's care pathway in specialised medical services
- under supervision, recognise changes and dysfunctions in intensive care patient's vital functions and under supervision, are able to carry out nursing interventions in intensive care and to evaluate their effectiveness
- under supervision, are competent to plan and carry out safely central fluid- and drug care of intensive care patients
- under supervision, are competent to apply nursing technology and to give reports in intensive care nursing
-are competent to encounter intensive care patients and their families professionally
- under supervision, are able to recognise intensive care patients' and families' psychological needs and needs for counselling

1-2
Students
- are able to define intensive care nursing
- are able to name changes and dysfunctions in intensive care patient's vital functions and under supervision, are able to carry out nursing interventions in intensive care
- under supervision, know how to carry out safely central fluid- and drug care of intensive care patients
- know what kind of technology is used in intensive care and under supervision, are competent to apply the technology and to give reports in intensive care nursing
-in their action, take intensive care patients into consideration

Fail = 0
Students
- have no overview of intensive care nursing
- do not know how to meet intensive care patients' basic needs
- their skill and knowledge of intensive care nursing are greatly lacking and patient safety is jeopardised
- do not know how to observe and report changes in vital functions
-do not fully observe asepsis
- joepardise their own and the patient's safety
- repeatedly make mistakes in drug and fluid care
-avoid nursing and learning situations
- do not seek contact or communicate with patients
- despite feedback, dress and act inappropriately
- do not respect confidentiality
- their collaboration skills are greatly lacking
- their study motivation is greatly lacking

Assessment Methods

Active participation, written exam and assignment, drug calculation test (must be passed before the practical training period), lab skills exercises (regular attendance and active participation expected).

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