Course Details

1. Describe, assess and apply techniques for airway management, immobilisation, circulatory support, emergency transportations and haemorrhage management.
2. Describe and assess the symptoms of respiratory failure, shock, acute myocardial infraction, acute pulmonary inflammation, emergency arrhythmias, coma and poisonings.
3. Analyse and apply advanced techniques of nursing trauma care to emergencies from the impact of the environment: burns, heat stroke, hypothermia, frostbite and inhalation of toxic substances, bites and stings.
4. Assess, organise and apply appropriate emergency nursing care for fractures and dislocations, head trauma, concussions, chest wall trauma and abdomen trauma.
5. Organise and apply Basic Life Support and Basic CPR in pre-hospital care.
6. Define and recognise the ethical and legal aspects of emergency nursing care.

General principles of emergency nursing management: Resuscitation, Basic Life Support, Advanced trauma nursing management, Pre-hospital Care.

Shock, Acute Myocardial Infraction, Respiratory Failure, Acute Pulmonary Inflammation, Emergency Arrhythmias, Epilepsy, Stroke.

Fractures, Dislocations.

Trauma: Head and Concussions, Chest wall, Abdomen.

Emergencies from the impact of the environment: Burns, Heat Stroke, Hypothermia, Frostbites and Inhalation of toxic substances.

Near-Drowning, Diving Accidents.

Bites, Stings, Poisonings.

Ethical and Legal Aspects in Emergency Nursing.

• Ch. Marvaki, A. Kotanidou, Emergency Nursing Care. Athens: Ion Publications, 2008

• MS. Baird, J. Hicks-Keen, PL. Swearingen, Manual to Critical Care Nursing: Nursing Interventions and Collaborative Management. (Greek Translation) Athens: BETA Medical Publisher, 2011

The course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer-based presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks.

Lectures are supplemented with laboratory work and clinical practice.

During laboratory sessions, students develop their skills, taught in the lecture sessions, on simulation mannequins in initial assessment of emergencies, airway management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (Adults & Children), cardiac arrest management, monitoring, rhythm recognition and 12-lead ECG, immobilisation techniques, emergency transportations, trauma and haemorrhage management so that they can then apply them successfully and safely at a real clinical setting.

During clinical teaching students are trained at hospital-based emergency departments to develop further their clinical skills.