INTENPRA20 Clinical Studies in Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, Level 2 Course description

Admission to the programme.

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

KnowledgeThe student

• can explain key concepts and phases of supervision
• can describe the importance of communication and relations in supervision
• can describe the role and function of the supervisor as a facilitator of learning
• can describe formative and summative assessment and suitability assessment
• can describe how it is possible to update your own skills in a chosen subject area and how to contribute to developing professional practice

SkillsThe student

• can plan, carry out and assess individual supervision
• can stimulate reflection on practice
• can reflect on current procedures and methods, and take the initiative to engage in dialogue about the implementation of new knowledge and new work methods

CompetenceThe student

• can reflect on their supervision, role and responsibility
• can reflect on nursing issues within a chosen subject area

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 in-depth knowledge of complications in connection with acute and/or critical illness, advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• has in-depth knowledge about maintaining and restoring vital functions if they are threatened

Skills:

The student

• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to existing theories and methods in advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing

• is capable of observing, assessing and identifying a patient's general and special needs, resources and problems through communication and cooperation with the patient and his/her next of kin
• is capable of preventing complications in connection with acute and/or critical illness, advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• is capable of reducing stress, pain and discomfort in connection with advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• is capable of maintaining and restoring vital functions if they are threatened
• is capable of applying knowledge of nutrition in connection with acute and/or critical illness
• is capable, with some supervision, of work on practical and theoretical problem-solving relating to the intensive care nurse¿s functions and areas of responsibility

• is capable of carrying out wholly or partly compensatory intensive care nursing in the event of serious failure of patients¿ organs or organ systems, including assisted respiration, circulation and nutrition and renal replacement therapy
• is capable of identifying acute situations
• is capable of administering and evaluating pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain relief to intensive care patients
• is capable of administering and evaluating sedation of intensive care patients
• is capable of checking and using medical equipment and has a reflective attitude to the possibilities and limitations of technology
• is capable of practising intensive care nursing with respect for patients¿ autonomy, integrity and dignity
• is capable of cooperating with patients¿ next of kin, showing respect and care, and safeguarding their rights
• is capable of critical reflection when making choices and acting in an ethically and legally satisfactory manner
• is capable of ensuring continuity in patient treatment through written and oral documentation
• is capable of documenting, evaluating and quality assuring his/her own work

Competence:

The student

• is capable, with some supervision, of analysing relevant ethical issues in intensive care nursing based on relevant discipline knowledge, research, experience and patient knowledge

• is capable, with some supervision, of carrying out wholly or partly compensatory intensive care nursing in the event of serious self-care deficits in relation to a patient's fundamental needs
• is capable of cooperating with members of his/her own profession and across professions in patient treatment

• Observations and clinical assessments in connection with serious self-care deficits in relation to a patient's fundamental needs
• Preventing complications in connection with acute and/or critical illness, advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• Reducing stress and alleviating pain and discomfort in connection with advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• Communication and interaction with intensive care patients and their next of kin
• Preventing and treating intensive care delirium
• Wholly or partly compensatory nursing in the event of serious self-care deficits in relation to a child's fundamental needs and failure of vital functions
• Nutrition in connection with acute and critical illness
• Medical equipment
• Written and oral documentation of intensive care nursing

None.

Group home exam

• In groups of up to seven students.
• The exam period extends throughout the course.
• Scope of 1,500 words (+/- 10%).

Resit exam: A student who fails the ordinary exam can submit a reworked version once as a resit.

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.

One external and one internal examiner will assess at least 10% of the exam papers. The remaining papers will be assessed by two internal examiners. The external examiner’s assessment should benefit all the students.

The course overlaps 100% with SYK2840A and SYK2840B

Students who pass the course may apply for exemption from the course VEIPR6000 Supervision and assessment 1 (5 credits) in the programme Further Education in Supervision of Students in Internship (10 credits) at OsloMet.

INTENPRA20 and MINTPRA20 overlap 100%.

Academic content is overlapping with INTENPRA2 and MINTPRA2.