SY-425 Intensive care medicine and intensive care 2

The course is connected to the following study programs

• Master's Programme in Advanced Practice Nursing

Teaching language

This course is taught in Norwegian and an English translation of the course description is not available.

Course contents

 

Common theme

• Ethics

  • Ethics and medical technical developments

  • Ethical reflection, reasoning and decision-making

• Organization, management and environment

• Quality assurance and patient safety

• Communication and team collaboration

• Cultural understanding

• Childen-child surgery and acute respiratory problems

• The older patient

• Pathophysiology, intensive care, surgery and surgical methodology

  • Vascular and thoracic surgery

  • ENT

  • Eye

  • Back and neck injuries

  • Traumatology, near-drowning, hypothermia

  • Neurophysiology, neurological examinations, neurological diseases and injuries, head injuries

  • CPR / AHLR for adults and children

  • Burns

  • Organ donation

  • Severe infections, sepsis, DIC, multiorgan failure

  • Gynecology, HELLP

  • Gastrological Diseases (Medicine)

• MTU-Medical technical equipment

Subject-specific themes

• General intensive care, responsibility and areas of expertise in relation to

  • Children and newborns (NIDCAP, kangaroo care (KCM), acute respiratory problems, respiratory support treatment, etc.)

  • Final treatment and death in the intensive care unit

  • Overweight and obesity

• Special intensive care, responsibility and areas of expertise at

  • ENT disorders

  • Back and neck injuries

  • Traumatology, near-depression and hypothermia

  • CPR / AHLR for adults and children

  • Neurophysiology, neurological examinations, neurological diseases and injuries, head injuries

  • Burns

  • Poisonings

  • Organ donation

  • Vascular and thoracic surgery

  • Gastrological diseases

• Medical and natural sciences, pathophysiology, intensive medicine and surgery

  • Nutrition

  • Insulin therapy and glucose control in the intensive care unit

Further information can be found in the subject booklet which is made available to the students via the learning platform Canvas

Learning outcomes

The student:

Knowledge

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of how organs and organ systems work in relation to each other and how pathophysiological processes and current diseases, surgery and injuries start, develop and treat

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of intensive care within current topics to prevent complications, reduce stress and relieve suffering, pain and discomfort, treat and rehabilitate

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of intensive care and intensive medicine for different age groups (newborn, children and elderly)

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of the importance of multicultural understanding in intensive care and intensive medicine

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of various ethical dilemmas

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of quality assurance and patient safety

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of communication and interaction in teams (ISBAR and CRM)

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of the organization and management of specialist health services and specialized departments (and legislation including the function description)

• demonstrates advanced knowledge of medical equipment used for the treatment and monitoring of intensive care patients and the proper use of the equipment

Skills

• is able to communicate and interact in teams

• is able to analyze ethical issues and take an independent position on ethical dilemmas in professional practice

• is able to observe, critically evaluate / analyze, show connections and integrate medical and natural sciences as the basis for professional intensive care nursing

• is able to analyze and apply current research in intensive care and intensive medicine

• is able to critically assess and facilitate the application of current research

• is able to participate in, conduct and monitor advanced medical care

General competence

• is able to apply previous knowledge and clinical experience to acquire advanced knowledge in intensive care and intensive medicine

• is able apply new knowledge and skills to carry out advanced tasks in intensive care and intensive medicine

• is able to communicate professional issues in intensive care and intensive medicine, analyze and conclude, both with specialists and the general public

Examination requirements

Two portfolio assignment submissions by the assigned deadline (see the course booklet).

At least 80% class attendance.

Teaching methods

Lectures, simulations, group work and independent study.

Evaluation

The person responsible for the course, 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).

• Individual home assignment. Up to two supervisions can be given, one of which is mandatory. The assignment is delivered in the second semester (counts 40%).

Both examinations must be passed. One final grade is given.