The course takes place in period

3 (2019-01-01 to 2019-03-17)

Level/category

Professional studies

Teaching language

Finnish

Type of course

Compulsory

Cycle/level of course

First

Recommended year of study

2

Total number of ECTS

10 cr

Competency aims

The aim of the course is for the student to be
able
to
practice in an EMT level prehospital unit.

Learning outcomes

- The student understand the prehospital
process
(from alarming of
the unit to returning to the station).

- The student can function as a healthcare
professional with
patient and relatives

- The student is familiar with the directives
of
care and any
standard operations protocols for EMT level of
the unit and the
student understand the role of prehospital care
in the healthcare
system

- The student can perform a quality primary and
secondary patient
assessment

- The student is able to perform assessment and
care to low-risk
medical and trauma patients.

- The student recognizes abnormalities in the
vital functions and
recognizes a critical patient

- The student can function as part of a team
(as
a student) in
treatment of low-risk and high-risk patients.

- The student is able to correctly and with
good
judgement assess
the correct care facility of a low-risk
patient

- The student is familiar with and can operate
treatment and
transport equipment

- The student can adequately perform a verbal
and
written report of
the patient

- The student can correctly service and clean
the
ambulance unit

- The student is familiar with and can operate
radio communications
devices in the unit

- The student is familiar with, and understand
the function of,
different authorities, including police
services,
rescue services,
Emergency Dispatch Center, social care and
different facilities of
care

- The student can adequately discuss the
patophysiology, symptoms,
findings and care of the most common medical
and
trauma cases

- The student is familiar with the most common
medicines used by
patients and knows how to, and where, to find
additional informatio
on them

- The student can recoqnize the mechanisms of
injury and typical
injuries of trauma

- The student is able to assess their own
actions
in nursing
situations and can also adequately describe
their
own goals

Course contents

Practical course.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Medicine 1
Medicine 2
Practical Clinical Care (Practical Training)
Prehospital care - supporting subjects

Recommended or required reading

None

Study activities

Practical training - 266 hours

Workload

  • Total workload of the course: 266 hours
  • Of which autonomous studies: 266 hours
  • Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Mode of Delivery

Participation in tuition

Assessment requirements

Passed feedback from practice.

Teacher

  • Carstens Laura
  • Ericsson Christoffer
  • Rehnström Henrik

Examiner

Ericsson Christoffer

Group size

No limit (15 students enrolled)

Assignments valid until

12 months after course has ended

The timetable of the course

Praktiken sker under veckorna 2-8.

Course enrolment period

2018-04-15 to 2019-07-31

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