Course syllabus for Emergency nursing care - Clinical education
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Essential data
Specific entry requirements
- Fluent spoken English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish.
- Passed 90 ECTS credits or 1,5 year of the Nursing programme.
- Basic computer knowledge (e.g. Microsoft Word and Internet research skills).
Outcomes
The goals of the course are that the student after completing the course should be able to:
- describe the nursing process and collaboration with other professions around patients and next of kin within emergency care
- identify and compare various professional issues such as attitudes, ethics, gender, ethnicity, age, health economics and the health care system in Swedish nursing to the nurse profession in the home country
Content
The course consistis of clinical placement within a emergency health care facility with which the Study Programme in Nursing at Karolinska Institutet has an agreement with. The content consists of operational modules in accordance with the learning objectives.
Emergency nursing care - Clinical education, 3.0 credits
Grading scale: AF
Teaching methods
The teaching is based on a problem-oriented and collaborative approach to learning where the working methods provide the conditions for the student to actively take responsibility for their learning. The working methods used are clinical training that is carried out under the supervision of a clinical nurse. The student is recommended to keep a reflection diary that is used as a basis for the supervisor discussions.
The clinical training includes 40 hours/week of which 32 hours/week is located at the clinical placement. Day -, evening - and night shifts as well as weekends and holidays may occur. Students are not allowed to compress the clinical training. The remaining 8 hours per week are allocated for literature studies and Internet research.
Examination
Compulsory attendance applies to all the days in the clinical activities. The supervisor, together with the examiner, determines, how the student should make up for any absence. Assessment of the students' achievements and knowledge acquisition takes place continuously during the course.
The examiner decides whether, and if so how, absence from compulsory course elements can be made up. Study results cannot be reported until the student has participated in compulsory course elements or compensated for any absence in accordance with instructions from the examiner. Absence from a compulsory course element could mean that the student can not retake the element until the next time the course is offered.
The course is examined through individual assessment according to evaluation form.
The examiner may, with immediate effect, interrupt a student's clinical placement (or equivalent) if the student demonstrates such serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills or attitude that patient safety or patient confidence in healthcare is at risk. If a clinical placement is interrupted in this way the student is deemed to have failed that element and to have used up one clinical placement opportunity.
If there are special grounds, or a need for adaptation for a student with a disability, the examiner may decide to deviate from the syllabus's regulations on the examination form, the number of examination opportunities, the possibility of supplementation or exemptions from the compulsory section/s of the
course etc. Content and learning outcomes as well as the level of expected skills, knowledge and abilities may not be changed, removed or reduced.
Other directives
The course will be evaluated in accordance with the guidelines established by the Board of Education.
Literature and other teaching aids
Recommended literature
- Medical-surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems, Lewis, Sharon Mantik; Bucher, Linda; Heitkemper, Margaret M.; Harding, Mariann, 10th edition. : St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, Inc, [2017] - 2 volumes ISBN: 9780323328524, LIBRIS-ID: 19795457,
- Medical response to major incidents and disasters: a practical guide for all medical staff, Lennquist, Sten, Heidelberg : Springer, c2012. - xxiv, 412 p. ISBN: 978-3-642-21894-1 (alk. paper), LIBRIS-ID: 13597503,
- PHTLS: prehospital trauma life support, Ninth edition. : Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2020] - xxiv, 762 pages ISBN: 9781284171471, LIBRIS-ID: 19q4r730zkh90kg3,
- Atlas of Emergency Medicine Procedures, Ganti, Latha., 1st ed. 2016. : New York, NY : Springer New York, 2016 - XL, 755 p. 654 illus., 628 illus. in color. ISBN: 9781493925070, LIBRIS-ID: 19421053, Online access for KIB,