Course syllabus for Prehospital Emergency Care
Omvårdnad och medicinska ämnen inom ambulanssjukvård
Essential data
Specific entry requirements
120 higher education credits in health and care sciences. Fluently spoken English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish. Basic computer knowledge (i.e. Microsoft Word, Internet research skills).
A student who has failed the work-based education due to such a serious lack in terms of knowledge, skills or attitude that patient safety or patients’ confidence in medical care is jeopardised is qualified to a new opportunity only when the individual action plan has been completed.
Outcomes
The overall objective of the course is that the student after completing the course should be able to apply and integrate nursing with medical care and treatment out of a prehospital perspective. From ethical, cultural, gender and pedagogical aspects the student should develop towards a professional approach in the prehospital context. The students should also be able to discuss and evaluate current research and evidence-based nursing and assess the relation between science in nursing and medical science within prehospital care.
The course is divided into three parts.
Nursing and Medical Science in prehospital Care 9 Credits (part 1)
- The student should after the clinical rotation independently assess the patient's vital signs and caring needs .
- The student should after the clinical rotation under supervision with an ethical and socio-cultural perspective apply a patient centered care.
- The student should after the clinical rotation be able to professionally respond to the patients and family’s needs and reflect on their own preconceptions in the meeting with the patient and their family.
Nursing of adults with mental illness 6 credits (part 2)
- The student should after the clinical rotation be able to identify and assess the care needs of a patient with acute mental illness relevant to emergency medical services.
Nursing of children and young people 7.5 credits ( part 3)
- The student should after the clinical rotation assess the care needs of children with the influence of vital functions and explain the relationship between nursing needs and nursing interventions, medical care and treatment relevant to emergency medical services.
Content
The course is divided into three parts.
Nursing and Medical Science in prehospital Care, 9.0 credits
Grading scale: GU
- Clinical rotation in ambulance services 5 weeks
- PHTLS (Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support) course
Nursing of adults with mental illness, 6.0 credits
Grading scale: GU
- Clinical rotation 4 weeks
Teaching methods
The teaching is based on a problem-oriented and collaborative perspective on learning in which the methods should allow the students to be active and responsible for their own learning. The course content for clinical rotation- advance nursing care focuses on the elective subject area. The clinical rotation comprises 32 hours duty peer week in a hospital or/and in an ambulance that the program has an agreement with. The remaining 8 hours per week are allocated for literature studies. The clinical placement is constantly supervised by a nurse on the ward or in the ambulance, the supervisor and the clinical lecture from the Institute will evaluate the students’ progress during their practical experiences.
Mandatory elements
Participation in advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation on children and PTHLS (Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support) is mandatory. When absences at compulsory activities is the responsibility of the student to contact the course coordinator to discuss the consequences of absence.
Examination
Assessment is carried out during the clinical rotation in prehospital care (part 1), psychiatric care (part 2) and in child care (part 3). The clinical supervisors and / or the lecturer provide a basis for the evaluation as determined assessment form for clinical training (BeVut). When there is a risk of rejection the responsible lecturer and the student shall draw up a plan for the continued placement.
The basis for the rating applies to the following parts are completed
• Mandatory activity in parts 1 and 3
• Clinical rotation in parts 1, 2 and 3
The clinical training can be repeated once.
The examiner can immediately interrupt a student’s clinical training if the student shows such serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills or attitudes that the patient´s safety of the patient´s trust for the health care is jeopardized. When clinical training is interrupted due to above mentioned reasons the student has failed the examination and one period is considered consumed. When clinical rotation is interrupted under such circumstances, an individual action plan should be set up for required activities and examinations, before the student is given a possibility for a new clinical rotation in the course.
Other directives
The course will be evaluated in accordance with the guidelines established by the Board of Education.
Literature and other teaching aids
- Avancerad hjärt-lungräddning till barn: kursbok med webbutbildning, Stockholm : Svenska rådet för hjärt-lungräddning, 2011 - 55 s. ISBN: 978-82-8276-015-7, LIBRIS-ID: 12543055,
- Dalton, Alice., Advanced medical life support: a practical approach to adult medical emergencies, 3. ed. : Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Brady/Prentice Hall Health, cop. 2007 - xviii, 540 p. ISBN: 0-13-172340-5, LIBRIS-ID: 10946366,
- Ottosson, Jan-Otto, Akut psykiatri, 4., omdisponerade och uppdaterade uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2010 - 215 s. ISBN: 978-91-47-09415-8, LIBRIS-ID: 11864067,
- Pediatric education for prehospital professionals, Dieckmann, Ronald, Sudbury, MA : Jones and Bartlett, cop. 2000 - 344 s. ISBN: 0-7637-1219-1, LIBRIS-ID: 5605553,
- Sanders, Mick J., Mosby's paramedic textbook, Lewis, Lawrence M.; Quick, Gary; McKenna, Kim, 3., [rev.] ed. : St Louis, Mo : Elsevier Mosby, 2007 - xxx, 1474 p. ISBN: 978-0-323-04691-6 (hbk.) : No price, LIBRIS-ID: 10723101,