ANEST6100 Nurse Anaesthesia Course description

Eksamen i emnet består av to eksamensdeler:

• Eksamensdel 1: Individuell skriftlig hjemmeeksamen over 5 dager (ca. 2000-2500 ord), som teller 60 %. Eksamensdel 1 kan påklages.
• Eksamensdel 2: Muntlig forsvar av eksamens del 1. Studenten besvarer oppgaven muntlig gjennom en kort video. Denne delen teller 40 %.

Alle eksamensdeler må være vurdert til karakter E eller bedre for at studenten skal kunne få bestått emnet

Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt så lenge regler for kildehenvisning følges.

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

• has advanced knowledge of the functions and responsibilities of the nurse anaesthetist in the health service and society
• has advanced knowledge of how anaesthesia can feel and its effect on the patient
• has advanced knowledge of self-care deficits in relation to a patient's fundamental needs
• has knowledge of nursing ethics and different ethical guidelines
• has advanced knowledge of professional and ethical challenges in the field of nurse anaesthesia

Skills

The student

• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to existing theories on how patients experience anaesthesia, surgical procedures and examinations
• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to theories on communicating with patients and their next of kin
• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to theories on anaesthesia and analgesia
• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to theories on wholly or partly compensatory care in the event of serious self-care deficits in relation to a patient's fundamental needs

Competence

The student

• is capable of analysing relevant academic, professional and research ethics issues in nurse anaesthesia based on discipline knowledge, research, experience and patient knowledge
• is capable, with some supervision, of communicating about issues, analyses and conclusions in nurse anaesthesia, both with specialists and with the general public
• is capable of contributing to new ideas and innovation processes in clinical practice

Gradert skala A-F.

The following coursework requirements must be met before a student can receive an assessment for the course:

Assignment 1 - Regional anaesthesia. The conscious patient

• The students prepare their own research questions.
• Individual assignment.
• Scope: 3,000 words (+/- 20%).
• The syllabus selected by the students must be used in the assignment.
• The assignment must be written in accordance with the section Assessment of written work in the Assessment chapter of the programme description.
• The students receive written feedback from the lecturer.

Assignment 2 - General anaesthesia

• The students prepare their own research questions.
• Individual assignment.
• Scope: 3,000 words (+/- 20%).
• The syllabus selected by the students must be used in the assignment.
• The assignment must be written in accordance with the section Assessment of written work in chapter 10 Assessment in the programme description.
• The students receive written and oral feedback from their fellow students and oral feedback from the lecturer.

Reflection notes

• About a current theme
• Individual assignment
• Scope:

Attendance in compulsory activities

• Simulation
• Group work
• Seminars

A written in-depth assignment, written individually or in groups of up to three students. The assignment shall consist of a project outline for a piece of research or quality-related work based on a literature review, and it must be written in accordance with the section Assessment of written work in the Assessment chapter of the programme description.

Five weeks are set aside for work on this assignment.

Up to four hours of supervision is provided per assignment. Students who fail the assignment are offered two more hours of supervision.

Scope: 5,000 words (+/- 20%).

The title of the assignment will be included in the transcript of grades.

The students shall develop skills in carrying out, in an independent and systematic manner, an extensive, practically oriented project based on a client’s requirements. The students shall demonstrate that they can translate their knowledge into practical solutions. They shall be capable of applying basic rules for user quality to analysis, design, implementation, interfaces and documentation. They shall be capable of producing satisfactory documentation for computer programs and systems concerning products, operation and use, adapted to the different recipients of this documentation, and of providing an expedient description of their own work process based on given standards.

Emnet overlapper 15 studiepoeng med PDTK1200.

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

Knowledge The student is capable of:

• explaining how projects are managed and how progress is ensured
• explaining the different stages of a development project and their importance
• explaining the structure of final documentation
• explaining the chosen technical architecture and discussing its advantages and disadvantages

Skills

The student is capable of:

• developing project and work plans
• setting up development and test environments
• developing and testing large-scale computer programs in groups
• installing a production version of the system
• preparing final documentation of the project, containing both process, product and user documentation

General competence

The student is capable of:

• cooperating on an extensive computer technology project that culminates in an end product comprising both computer programs and documentation

The following work requirements must be approved in order to be qualified for the exam:

• A poster describing key elements of the bachelor project.