First Aid (EA 1) and Pharmacotherapy for Social Services (5 cr)
Code: K700BE35-3003
General information
Enrollment
03.10.2024 - 11.05.2025
Timing
12.05.2025 - 31.07.2025
Credits
5 op
Virtual proportion (cr)
4 op
Mode of delivery
20 % Contact teaching, 80 % Distance learning
Unit
Bachelor of Social Services
Office
Kosmos, Tietokatu 1, Kemi
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Social Services, Kemi
Teachers
- Eija Kehus
- Kirsi Heikkinen
- Hanne Luosujärvi
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