ELPE1400 Digital Technology Course description

None.

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

• can discuss the nurse's role in health promotion work, everyday (re)habilitation activities for people living at home in different age groups
• can explain person-centered nursing of children with lasting health challenges and their families
• can discuss health counselling at the individual, group, and social level

Skills

The student

• can adapt and integrate theoretical and practical knowledge of the nurse's rehabilitating and health promoting function to promote the best possible functional level, well-being and quality of life for the individual, in cooperation with other health professions
• can identify persons with a high risk of functional impairment early enough to implement measures
• can interact interprofessionally and across sectors through coordinated, comprehensive, and cohesive service offerings that ensure excellent person-centered health services
• can plan, implement, evaluate and document nursing measures that ensure the safe transfer of patients between units and levels of the municipal health service and which contribute to health promotion for patients living at home
• can provide nursing care for patients in the palliative phase and follow up next-of-kin and those left behind
• can administer and monitor medication treatments for individuals living at home in a responsible manner
• can manage and structure their own working day, in order to achieve independence in their role as a nurse

General competence

The student

• can critically reflect on how information, communication and welfare technology can strengthen the municipality’s services
• can use technology and digital solutions to support patients’ and next-of-kin's resources, mastering possibilities and participation
• can explore what a lack of activity and unmet psychosocial needs can lead to over time, and discussing how new measures can strengthen the traditional services provided
• can discuss his/her own professional role in an interprofessional context and initiating and contributing to interprofessional and intersectoral cooperation
• can communicate and share experiences related to central subject matter such as theories, nursing problems, and solutions, both in writing and orally
• can identify and reflect on ethical dilemma and perspectives when nursing is carried out in private homes
• can critically reflect and engage in new thinking and innovation processes through project work and taking the initiative to quality improvement and implementation of new work methods
• can critically discuss cultural sensitivity and reflecting on the significance of cultural understanding in nursing practice, quality, and patient safety in the patients' homes

No coursework requirements or compulsory activities.

The exam is an individual written home exam over 72 hours with a scope of 8-9 pages. Font and font size: Calibri 12-point. Line spacing 1.5. The approved citation style APA for assignments must be complied with.

Candidates who fail or who were absent from the ordinary exam for a valid reason can take a resit/rescheduled exam.

Not relevant.

Pass/fail.

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner. At least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.

SYKKPRA70x and SYKPRA70x are fully overlapping.

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.