SY-426 Anesthesia nursing 2

The course is connected to the following study programs

• Master's Programme in Advanced Practice Nursing

Teaching language

Norwegian

Course contents

Common topics

• Ethics

• Ethics and medical technical development

  • Ethical reflection, argumentation and decision-making processes

• Organisation, management, and environment

• Quality assurance

• Communication and team cooperation

• Cultural understanding

• Children, paediatric surgery and acute respiratory failure

• The elderly patient

• Pathophysiology, intensive medicine, surgery and surgical methods regarding

  • Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

  • Ears, nose and throat

  • Eye

  • Back and neck injuries

  • Trauma, near drowning, hypothermia

  • Neurophysiology; neurological examinations, illnesses and injuries; and head injuries

  • CPR to adults and children

  • Burn injuries

  • Organ donation

  • Serious infections, sepsis, DIC, multi organ failure

  • Gynecology, HELLP

  • Gastrological illnesses

• Medical technical equipment

Subject-specific topics

• Anaesthesia to various surgical conditions in

  • The vascular and thoracic system

  • Ears, nose and throat

  • Eyes

  • Paediatric surgery

  • Gynecology

• Anaesthesia for various age groups and other groups: Anaesthesia for children, geriatric patients and mentally disabled patients

• Anaesthesia during the recpetion of acutely and critically ill patients

• Anaesthesia in trauma or multiple organ failure situations

• Anaesthesia for burn injuries, emergency treatment and changing of bandages

• Anaesthesia for intensive care patients

• Anaesthesia for poisoning

• Anaesthesia in organ donation

• Anaesthesia nursing and anaesthesia

  • Anaesthesia and anaesthesia nursing to various patient groups of all ages

  • Day surgery patients

  • Patients with special anxiety disorders (for example victims of torture)

  • Obese patients

  • Patient positioning

  • Anaesthesia nursing to patients with various traumas, multiple organ failure, various types of shock, burn injuries or poisoning

  • The anaesthesia nurse's tasks in relation to the patient's relatives in cases of acute or critical illness

  • The anaesthesia nurse's role and tasks in organ donation

  • The anaesthesia nurse's pre-hospital function

    • The anaesthesia nurse's role in disaster work

More detailed information can be found in the course booklet that is made available to students via the Canvas learning management system.

Learning outcomes

The student

Knowledge

• demonstrates thorough knowledge about various ethical dilemmas, be able to analyse ethical issues and take independent positions on ethical dilemmas in the profession

• demonstrates thorough knowledge of framework, organisation and management in general and in the reception of acutely, critically ill patients in particular

• demonstrates advanced knowledge about quality assurance and patient safety

• demonstrates thorough knowledge about multicultural understanding

• demonstrates advanced knowledge in pathophysiology, intensive care medicine, surgery, anaesthesiology and anaesthesia nursing in common and subject-specific topics

• demonstrates advanced knowledge about anaesthetics and anaesthesia nursing to variours patient groups

Skills

• demonstrates knowledge about the proper application of advanced medical equipment used for the treatment and monitoring of anaesthesia patients

• is able to carry out and monitor advanced medical treatment, observe, assess and understand symptoms and findings in relevant patient groups

• administers anaesthesia and give anaesthesia nursing care to various patient groups

• is able to apply knowledge about treatment of acutely and critically ill patients to new areas within anaesthesiology and anaesthesia nursing, and in order to inform and support the patient and his/her relatives

• is able to analyse, show contexts and integrate medical and natural science subjects as a basis for academically justifiable anaesthesia nursing

• is able to find recent relevant research related to the future of the profession, as well as be able to critically evaluate and facilitate the application of this knowledge to their own work

 

General competence

• is able to apply prior clinical experience in order to attain advanced knowledge in anaesthesiology and anaesthesia nursing

• is able to integrate new advanced knowledge and skills to carry out advanced work tasks in anaesthesia and anaesthesia nursing 

• is able to communicate professional issues in anaesthesia and anaesthesia nursing, analyse and conclude, both with specialists and the public

Examination requirements

80 % attendance rate is required in the compulsory parts of instruction.

Evaluation

The study programme manager, in consultation with the student representative, decides the method of evaluation and whether the courses will have a midterm- or end of term evaluation, see also the Quality System, section 4.1. Information about evaluation method for the course will be posted on Canvas.

Assessment methods and criteria

The examination consists of two parts:

• A 4-hour individual school examination at the end of third semester (counts 60 % of the final grade).

• An individual project assignment. The assignment should be submitted in the second semester (counts 40 % of the final grade).

Both examinations must be passed. One final grade (grades A-F)

is given.