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First Aid (EA 1) and Pharmacotherapy for Social Services (5 cr)

Code: K701SL51OJ-19007

General information


Enrollment

01.10.2021 - 17.01.2022

Timing

24.01.2022 - 13.03.2022

Credits

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Bachelor of Social Services

Office

Kosmos, Tietokatu 1, Kemi

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 30

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Social Services, Kemi
  • Bachelor of Social Services

Teachers

  • Eija Kehus
  • Aija Lämsä
  • Sirpa Orajärvi

Responsible person

Aija Lämsä

Student groups

  • K71S20S1
  • K71S20S
  • K71S20S2

Objective

First aid 1 (Finnish Red Cross guidelines)
Learning objectives:

The student possesses the most important emergency first aid skills, can recognise a patient’s need for immediate first aid, is able to act and provide first aid in case of accidents and the most common seizures in various treatment and operating environments and has mastered basic resuscitation and defibrillation.

Contents:
Accidents and their frequency, how to act at the scene, injury mechanisms, typical injuries, emergency first aid, unconsciousness, lifelessness (CPR-D), bleeding and shock, burns and freezing injuries, electrocution, first aid treatment of fractures and joint injuries, the most common seizures and poisonings and their first aid treatment.

Pharmacotherapy for social services:
- Legislation governing pharmacotherapy
- Responsibility issues and safety in pharmaceuticals
- Basic concepts, forms and modes of administration of medicinal products
- Medication steps in the body
- Adverse drug reactions and drug interactions
- Medication-specific issues - Medication-specific characteristics of the elderly

Content

Tieto puuttuu

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Tieto puuttuu

Qualifications

NULL