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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