MAKRE4300 Professional Nursing Leadership, Collaboration and Technology in Cancer Care Course description

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

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

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.

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

Individual home examination over two weeks based on the focus and content of the chosen topic. The student chooses the research question themselves. Scope: 2,500 words (+/- 10%).

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

Grade scale A-F.

All answers are assessed by one examiner.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

10 ECTS credits overlaps with MAPO4400 Health Pedagogy, 10 ECTS credits.