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MAEMP4200 Health Pedagogy Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Helsepedagogikk
Study programme
Master's Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Physiotherapy for Children and Adolescents
Master's Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Physiotherapy for the older adult
Master's Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Empowerment and Health Promotion
Master's Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Rehabilitation and Habilitation
Master's Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Nursing; Clinical Research and Professional Development
Master's Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Physiotherapy for Musculoskeletal Health
Master's Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Occupational Therapy
Weight
10.0 ECTS
Year of study
2023/2024
Curriculum
SPRING 2024
Schedule
Course history

Introduction

Language of instruction: Norwegian

This course highlights and problematises core concepts in health pedagogy and the relationship between the concepts. Health pedagogy methods are illuminated, and operationalized. Digital solutions used for health challenges are illuminated and problematized. Through training and reflection, the student will acquire the expertise necessary to plan, execute and evaluate health pedagogy measures provided to persons with health challenges and their next of kin, and incorporate user knowledge when teaching patients/users and next of kin.

Emphasis is placed on interprofessional cooperation and the organisation of health pedagogy measures, as well as the importance of being a change agent in different arenas related to health promotion.

Required preliminary courses

The student must have been admitted to the Master’s Programme in Health Sciences.

Learning outcomes

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

Knowledge

The student:

  • can critically assess concepts and methods in health pedagogy

Skills

The student:

  • can plan, implement, critically assess and document a health pedagogy scheme for patients/users or next of kin
  • can apply health pedagogy knowledge and skills in interprofessional collaboration and in cooperation with patients/users and next of kin, in a practical training situation or at their place of work
  • can discuss the planning and implementation of different health pedagogy methods, if relevant in cooperation with patients/users and next of kin

General competence

The student:

  • can critically analyse and incorporate user knowledge in patient and next of kin training individually and in groups

Teaching and learning methods

The course will use varied, student-active work methods. Work and teaching methods include lectures, practical exercises in health pedagogy methods individually and in groups, group work and self-study.

Course requirements

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take the examination:

  • minimum 80% participation in practical exercises at health pedagogy
  • approved research question for the home examination by a given deadline

Assessment

In this course, nursing of patients in the context of care and rehabilitation is a key area. The course covers the nursing of patients with complex health challenges on short-term or long-term stays in different institutions. Students will gain experience of communicating and interacting with patients and next-of-kin related to long-term health challenges. Mapping of loss of function, challenges related to key patient phenomena and cognitive deficits will be part of the course. Emphasis is also placed on attention to the patients’ background as a basis for nursing. Management, organisational competence, ethics and work on the nurse's pedagogical function are also included. You will complete 8 weeks of practical training in this course.

Permitted exam materials and equipment

To start this course you must have passed:

  • Passed the first year of study.
  • SYKP/SYKP2100 Person Centered Care, 15 credits.
  • SYKK/SYKPPRA21 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, 15 credits.
  • SYKK/SYKPPRA30 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2, 10 credits.

or equivalent.*

* For year group 2022 at OsloMet, the equivalent is:

  • Passed the first year of study.
  • SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, 20 credits.
  • SYKP/SYKP1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits.
  • SYKP/SYKK2000 Theory of Science and Research Methods, 5 credits.
  • SYKK/SYKPPRA30 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2, 10 credits.

Grading scale

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 explain age-related diseases and treatments
  • can discuss how person-centered nursing can contribute to well-being, health promotion and maintenance of physical and cognitive function in the individual
  • can explain the grounds for how health and social care policy can set the guidelines for quality development in the municipal health service and discuss how patient safety measures are expressed

Skills

The student

  • can apply the nursing process by observing, assessing, and making clinical decisions in complex nursing and treatment processes, and documenting the patient’s situation and needs for nursing in the patient records
  • can administer, observe and assess the effects of medicines, current side effects and prevent polypharmacy
  • can apply person-centered nursing, communication skills and communication principles when dealing with people with dementia to prevent and manage challenging behavior
  • carrying out prioritised patient safety measures and discussing how this is exhibited and laid as a basis for professional improvement work in the nursing and care services
  • taking responsibility for professional management by delegating and following up work
  • tasks towards a group of patients and staff and reflect on how this can have an impact on the quality of the nursing service
  • can apply educational principles in teaching, guidance and information to patients, next-of-kin, students, and relevant personnel
  • can reflect on own and others' attitudes and values ​​in interaction with patients and next-of-kin, and in interprofessional collaboration

General competence

The student

  • can assess patients' existential needs, and central phenomena such as meaning, hope, faith and reconciliation to contribute to quality of life
  • can reflect on what can prevent and resolve conflicts in the working environment
  • can identify and reflect on relevant ethical issues and dilemmas at the individual, group, and society level reflecting on the significance of social relations and the role the patient’s next-of-kin of patients who are on short- or long-term stays in institutionscan
  • can reflect on the importance of the patient's social relationships and the role of relatives of patients who are on short- or long-term stays in institutions
  • can reflect on the meaning of good care pathways for elderly people and chronically ill patients and how these can contribute to ensuring a coordinated, holistic, and cohesive service
  • takes responsibility for own learning by identifying own learning needs and acquiring new knowledge, showing initiative, accuracy and reliability

Examiners

Practical training: in the municipal health service (8 weeks), including self-studies, lectures, digital learning resources and theme-based seminars with presentations.

Overlapping courses

Part 1 Assessment of practical training

Practical training has requirements for attendance 90 %. The student fills in a self-presentation for the start of the practice and self-assessment for the mid- and final assessment. Other compulsory activities included in the assessment of practical training are:

  • Planning and carrying out supervision for a group of first year students in cooperation with the practical training supervisor and contact lecturer (inspiration practical training).