SYKPPRA40B Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Course description

Normally taught in English. Can be taught in Norwegian if no English-speaking students are taking the course.

In this course, you learn about health-promoting and preventive work at both individual, group and society level. The course gives you knowledge about conditions that promote health and quality of life and challenges that entail health risks. This includes nursing challenges in working with healthy vulnerable and marginalised groups, and children and young people's upbringing environment.

In addition, students will participate in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1200 ‘Communication with children and adolescents’, with a scope corresponding to 1.5 credits carried out in the beginning of January. Exchange students may occasionally be exempted from this requirement. Relevant topics include children’s and adolescents’ cooperation with professionals, explorative approaches to children and adolescents and professionals’ contributions to children and adolescents’ formation of opinions. The learning outcomes expected after completion of INTER1200 are marked with *. See INTERACT’s website for a more detailed description of the content of INTER1200 https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interact

Admission to the programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• is capable of reflecting on health promoting and preventive work at the individual-, group- and society level with focus on healthy, vulnerable and marginalised groups
• is capable of describing conditions that influence children and adolescent’s formative environment and how activity and well-being are significant for health, welfare and the prevention of disease for all groups of the population
• is capable of describing key issues related to women’s health 
• is capable of describing key issues related to sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases 
• is capable of describing how migration, refugee and judicial status can affect each person’s health
• has knowledge about the importance of appreciative communication with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians*
• can explain children and adolescents’ right to participation in decisions that concern them* 
• can explain the importance of explorative approaches in cooperation with children and adolescents*

Skills

The student is capable of

• exploring how social health determinants are significant to public health and work inclusion at the individual and group level
• using knowledge of pregnancy, birth and the post-partum period
• completing a project under supervision and disseminating the results
• carry out a conversation about everyday life with children and adolescents* 
• have appreciative communication with parents/guardians*

Competence

The student is capable of

• discussing the connection between social health determinants and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• reflecting on the health risks of people who live with demanding caregiving tasks, drug addictions in the family, and people who have experienced neglect or domestic violence
• can reflect on their own role in explorative conversation with children, adolescents and their parent/guardians*
• understands the importance of interprofessional cooperation with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians*

Project-based practical training: The students work with various topics related to health-promoting and preventive work based on practical experience (3 weeks, including INTER1200).

INTER1200 'Communication with children and adolescents' forms part of a common seminar day, digital learning resources and assignments related to interprofessional group work and self-study.

The following must have been completed and approved in order for a student to take the exam:

• project-based practical training, 3 weeks, compulsory attendance of 90 %

• INTER1200, Individual log. Scope: 500 words (+/- 10%). In order to write the log, the student must first attend a seminar over two days. 

Oral exam in groups

• Until 10 students in groups, 30 minutes

Exams take place throughout the course and conclude with an oral presentation.

The group can choose whether the oral exam is given in Norwegian and / or English.

Resit exam: If the exam is assessed as not passed, the student group gets a new opportunity to complete the exam by appointment. If the students do not pass the exam for the second time, the course is considered not passed for the whole group.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Pass/fail. One overall grade is awarded for the whole group.

Two internal examiners assess each oral exam.

SYKKPRA40, and SYKPPRA40 and B overlap 100 %.