MINT5000 Intensive and Critical Care Medicine Course description

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 intensive care nurse's functions and areas of responsibility
• has in-depth knowledge of the experiences, reactions and needs of patients and next of kin in connection with acute and/or critical illness in an age-related and multicultural perspective
• has in-depth knowledge of quality work, including methods for quality improvement and quality control
• has in-depth knowledge of nursing ethics and different ethical guidelines
• is capable of analysing intensive care nursing problems on the basis of the discipline's history, traditions, distinctive nature and place in society

Skills

The student

• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to different sources of information and of using them to structure and formulate intensive care nursing argumentation
• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to existing theories and methods in intensive care nursing
• is capable of using relevant methods for research and quality-related work in an independent manner in the field of intensive care nursing

Competence

The student

• is capable of analysing relevant ethical issues in intensive care nursing based on discipline knowledge, research, experience and patient knowledge
• is capable of contributing to new ideas and innovation processes in clinical practice

Lectures, group work, seminars and self-study.

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 theories and methods in intensive and critical care medicine
• has in-depth knowledge of different types of anaesthesia and their after-effects
• has in-depth knowledge of the surgical stress response
• has in-depth knowledge of principles for administration of advanced medical equipment used in intensive and critical care medicine treatment

Skills:

The student

• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to existing theories and methods in intensive and critical care treatment
• is capable of independent work on theoretical problem-solving relating to prescribed intensive and critical care treatment delegated to him/her by a doctor

Competence:

The student

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

• is capable of applying knowledge of intensive and critical care medicine to administer intensive and critical care treatment prescribed by a doctor

• Intensive and critical care treatment for serious failure of different organs and organ systems
• Cardiology
• Expansive processes in the central nervous system, neurosurgery and neurology
• Infectious diseases
• Types of anaesthesia and their after-effects

A written in-depth assignment written individually or in groups of up to three students from the Master's Programme/Advanced Programme in Intensive Care Nursing. The assignment should either comprise a project description for a research work or quality-related work, or a systematic overview of research on a relevant topic.

The project description must be based on a literature review and be written in accordance with the section Assessment of written work in the Assessment chapter of the programme description.

Studenter som velger å lage en Systematisk oversikt (Systematic Review) i fordypningoppgaven(prosjektbeskrivelsen), og

planlegger å bruke denne videre i masteroppgave, må være minimum 2 studenter som skriver oppgaven sammen, på grunn av

metodekrav.

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%).

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

Grade scale A-F. For group exams, all the students in the group are awarded the same grade. Students who are awarded a fail grade (F) are given one opportunity to submit a reworked version of the assignment.

All answer papers are assessed by two examiners, one of whom must be external.

• Intensive care nursing in a historical perspective.
• Intensive and critical care nursing:
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Pain and stress relief
  • Rehabilitation
  • Palliative care
  • Teaching and guidance
  • Administration and management
  • Research and quality-related work
• Ethical theories.
• Ethical argumentation and decision-making theory.
• Addressing intensive care patients' psychosocial and existential needs.
• Evidence-based intensive care nursing.

INTEN6100 and MINT5100 overlap 100%.

INTEN6000 and MINT5000 overlap 100%