| CODE | NUR1131 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Fundamentals of Immediate Care | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Nursing | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit has been designed to train students to a basic level of first aid, giving the required theoretical background and a wide range of practical situations to help students learn and retain valuable skills which will help them deal with emergency situations. The unit is designed around the three aims of emergency care, namely preserve life, prevent worsening of the condition and promote recovery, which determine the objectives to be met during the course, as appropriate at a basic level of first aid. A list of topics to be covered: - Essential principles of first aid; - Casualty assessment; - Immediate Care of the casualty with an altered level of response; - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillation; - Immediate Care in sudden illness; - Immediate Care for bleeding, shock and traumatic emergencies; - Immediate Care in environmental emergencies; and - Serious incidents, multiple casualty and disaster situations. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims at helping students familiarise themselves with the principles of emergency care for sudden illness and serious injury leading to hypoxia, shock and problems with thermoregulation. This study-unit will also coach students in the basic emergency skills required to assess, establish and maintain adequate ventilatory, circulatory and neurological status in a seriously ill or injured person, and environmental control. Learning Outcomes: 1.Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - define an emergency situation, and discuss the provision of first aid in view of the three aims of emergency care; - discuss the roles of the first aider in an emergency situation and the chain of help; - discuss the development of a clinical emergency with regards to airway, breathing and circulatory compromise; - describe the appropriate first aid actions for specific emergency conditions discussed during the course; - describe the appropriate actions in a serious incident, an incident involving multiple casualties, or a disaster situation. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - assess an emergency situation quickly and calmly; - protect the first aider, bystanders and casualties from any danger; - assess the condition of all casualties and identify the need for immediate care; - administer appropriate care for life threatening injuries relative to airway, breathing and circulation; and - deal with other major conditions mainly altered level of response difficulty in breathing and chest pain, bleeding and shock, soft tissue injuries and musculoskeletal injuries. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - British Paramedic Association (2007). First Aid, CPR and AED: Standard (UK Edition). Sudbury: Jones & Bartlett. - Armstrong, V.J., Austin, M., & Crawford, R. (2014). First Aid Manual (10th ed.) London: Dorling Kindersley. - Groenhart, M., Handley, A., Kuzovlev A., Lofgren, B., & Perkins, G.G. (Eds.) (2010). Cardiopulmonary resuscitation with automated external defibrillation: Provider course manual. Belgium: European Resuscitation Council. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study and Practical | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Trevor Abela Fiorentino |
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