Internal Medicine and Surgical NursingLaajuus (15 cr)

Objective

The students will understand the importance of internal medical surgery for human health and overall well-being
The students will understand the care processes of internal medical surgery customers/patients requiring urgent and non-urgent care and the service system.
The students are able to examine the internal medical surgery customers/patients using clinical methods and health technology and can identify abnormalities.
The students are able to treat internal medical surgery customers/patients requiring urgent and non-urgent care safely
The students are able to promote optimal health and prevent health problems among internal medical surgery patients/customers
The students know the main methods of rehabilitative nursing in the nursing of internal surgical patients
The students are able to guide and advise internal medical surgery patients/customers using digital methods
The students are able to use national and international evidence-based knowledge in internal medical surgery nursing decision-making

Content

A core knowledge and skills base for internal medical surgery nursing

• service system and treatment processes
• care needs assessment
• Giving advice and instructions
• documentation
• resource-based rehabilitation methods
• wound care
• interventions and assistance
• resuscitation
• caring for a dying patient
Key medical knowledge for internal medical surgery (Internal Medicine 1 cr, Surgery and Anaesthesiology 1 cr)
Key pharmacological knowledge base and medication
• Parenteral medicine and liquid therapy
• cannulation of the peripheral vein
• Basics of central venous catheter use
• key medication
• Dispensing of medical oxygen
• blood transfusion
• medication dosage calculation

Patient Examination (key clinical examination methods for ear, nose, throat, eyes, respiration, blood circulation, abdomen and neurological status, clinical examination of patients with injuries, taking and interpreting key blood and secretion samples, basics of radiological examination)

Health Technology (various communication, documentation, treatment, and medical equipment)

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The students are able to use medical and/or surgical nursing concepts expertly in a variety of situations and to connect them. They know how to analyse, compare, combine and select information being able to present alternative practices in medical-surgical nursing. They can select and critically assess medical-surgical nursing techniques and models and use them in their work. The students are able to work independently and flexibly in every type of medical and surgical nursing learning and operational environment. They adopt and use a goal-oriented and developmental approach in their work as nurses. The students are able to work as a member of a multi-professional team promoting and developing the work of the team. They critically apply professional ethical nursing principles in their work

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The students are able to systematically use the concepts of medical and surgical nursing being able to describe and provide reasons for basic knowledge concerning medical-surgical nursing. They know how to select appropriate medical-surgical nursing procedures with the aid of their acquired knowledge and instructions. The students are proficient in applying appropriate medical and surgical nursing techniques and models and they can work independently and responsibly in various roles in the medical-surgical nursing learning and operational environment. They can work as a member of team to achieve the team's common goal and their work is customer oriented. The students are able to justify their work according to the professional ethical principles of nursing and reflect upon their own abilities and medical-surgical nursing practices.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The students are able to use the fundamental/individual concepts of medical and/or medical and surgical nursing and can name and iterate basic medical-surgical nursing knowledge. They are able to work in an appropriate manner when nursing a medical-surgical patient, using the correct techniques and models. The students can work as a member of a team taking other members of the team into consideration. They are able to take customers into account and their work is professional and complies with the professional ethical principles of nursing. They are able to assess their own abilities and medical-surgical nursing procedures

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

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