Nursing in Emergency Care, 15 credits

Admission to semester 5: All courses from the semesters 1-3 Semester 4: Passed assessment from placement 9 credits + 7.5 credits in (1SJ006, 1SJ005)

Student who has failed on the clinical placement period as a consequence of that the student has shown so serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills or attitudes that the patient security or the patients

The general aim of the course is that the student should acquire knowledge of human reactions at acute disease because from a whole and life-cycle perspective be able to identify, assess and meet the patient and family need of nursing. In addition, the student should achieve readiness at acute situations as well as obtain understanding of the role and interplay between man of the nurse and technology in emergency care with its complex medical engineering environments. Further, the student should acquire medicine and nursing in disaster medicine to achieve readiness in connection with serious events (large accidents and disasters).

Learning outcomes

Module 1: Nursing at acute disease

Knowledge and understanding On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• describe and explain failure in vital functions at acute illness and nursing in connection with this
• describe and explain relationships between statutes relevant in emergency care, medical engineering knowledge, patient security and ethical principles

Skills and ability On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• identify and analyse nursing need, formulate nursing goals, describe planned and prioritised nursing actions as well as explain how these promote individuals' health and mitigate suffering

Judgement ability and approach On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• analyse interplay between man and technology in care and nursing in emergency care

Module 2: Clinical placement

Skills and ability On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• interact with patient and/or family when assessing problems and needs, plan care and nursing as well as analyse consequences of priorities at complex relations
• based on factual knowledge and the patient's experiences observe and carry out risk assessments of behaviours, signs and symptoms at acute disease consideration cultural aspects as well as the interplay man and technology
• apply principles of care of patients with failure or threatening failure in vital functions to promote health and well-being
• in writing and orally communicate information in the patient's nursing chain
• apply a for staff, environment and patient safe management of technical equipment as well as safe carrying out health care technical components
• count, give, administrate as well as handle drugs on a correct and patient safe way in relation to current laws and regulations
• under supervision care as well as analyse the quality of the nursing related to evidence-based knowledge
• interact with as well as analyse cooperation in the own and with other professions

Judgement ability and approach On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• respond to and support patient and family in respectful consultation as well as carry out nursing based on the patient's experience of the situation
• justify and analyse ethical challenges and dilemmas that can arise in connection with emergency care and disasters
• reflect on the importance for equality in the meeting with the patient and family of the own pre-understanding
• apply principles of safe nursing environment with a focus on hygiene and aseptic to prevent disease transmission

Module 3: Drug dosage

Knowledge and understanding On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• in a correct way calculate drugs, prepare and administrate drugs that are used in the emergency care

Module 4: Disaster medicine

Knowledge and understanding On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• describe and explain threats and risks in society
• describe and explain principles of the crisis of the society and disaster medical preparedness
• be familiar with international public international law
• describe and explain principles of triage and acute treatment
• describe and explain the whole nursing chain i.e. they were affected path to care unit

Skills and ability On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• apply a medical and nursing readiness in connection with serious events

Judgement ability and approach On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• identify and analyse own role and readiness based on the catastrophy plan and effort of the hospital
• reflect on consequences of unclear information transfer and deficient information at serious events
• reflect and analyse how crisis support is given during and after an effort to affected, family and staff
• reflect and analyse how disaster medical preparedness be exercised in a city compared with other areas with respect to both the population's special living conditions and the preconditions of the health care

Course evaluation takes place according to the guidelines that are established by the Board of Higher Education.