SKOMP1100 Administration of Medicine Course description

Passed the course SKOMP1000.

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 present mental health work in a historical perspective
• can reflect on factors that inhibit and promote mental health at individual and group level
• can s discuss how psychosis, personality disorders, anxiety, mood disorder and drug addiction can influence the patients’ fundamental needs and self-understanding
• can describe mental health and psychosocial challenges among refugees and immigrants and how for example stigma, exclusion, discrimination, and racism can influence mental health and psychosocial health
• can describe strategies for mastery and concepts such as improvement processes, user participation, recovery, and empowerment
• can account for various mental disorders and the consequences for person-centered nursing
• can explain how framework factors such as current legislation and compulsory regulations can be of significance to the practice of nursing in mental health work
• can discuss the special needs of children and young people related to trauma, neglect, violence, abuse and drug and socio-economic problems

Skills

The student

• can apply key milieu therapeutic principles related to patients with mental disorders
• can apply knowledge about the main groups of psychotropic drugs and integrate knowledge from disease theory in assessing the effects and side effects of drugs
• can apply communication and interaction skills when encountering people with mental health issues and their next-of-kin and can establish, maintain, and terminate relationships
• can map symptoms of various mental and drug-related disorders and conditions and use relevant mapping tools in the practice of nursing
• is capable of continuously assessing situations that entail a risk for patients and/or staff and preventing unwanted incidents

General competence

The student

• can reflect on his/her own professional practice and power structures when encountering people with mental health issues and drug addictions and and receive guidance and feedback
• can reflect on existing procedures and methods, and taking the initiative to engage in dialogue about the implementation of new knowledge and new work methods in person-centred nursing and in interdisciplinary collaboration

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 give an account of the health-promoting, preventive, rehabilitating and alleviating function of nurses, including knowledge about palliative care
• can explain ageing processes and the special needs of the elderly
• can explain clinical assessment processes in nursing for the purpose of addressing the patient’s basic needs and improving his/her own resources in the course of the illness
• can explain the concept of patient-centred nursing
• can give an account of the management and organisation of the health service
• is familiar with tools and methods for running innovation processes, implementation and continuous improvement work
• can elaborate on challenges relating to information security in nursing practice

Skills

The student can

• provide nursing care that attends to the patient’s basic needs and resources, with a focus on patients with permanent or recurring medical conditions
• organise, manage and coordinate nursing care for a group of patients
• use relevant medical/technical equipment og sykepleieprosedyrer
• apply infection control measures to prevent the spread of unwanted microbes
• apply mapping, assessment, documentation and communication tools in nursing practice
• reflect on and handle ethical issues, and adjust his/her practices in the performance of duties
• provide drug administration and consider relationships between multi-diagnoses, polypharmacy and the patient’s condition
• use knowledge of legislation with particular focus on user participation and competence to give consent, internal control, the right to immediate assessment and treatment
• inform, teach and provide guidance to patients and next of kin about problems that arise in connection with illness, suffering and death
• use technology and digital solutions to support patients’ and next-of-kin’s resources, mastering possibilities and participation
• use knowledge about cultural competence and cultural literacy in the assessment, planning, provision and evaluation of nursing care
• adapt communication to the target groups’ special needs
• can apply knowledge-based practice

General competence

The student

• can engage in cooperation across disciplines, professions, sectors, enterprises and levels, and initiate such cooperation
• can exchange points of view and experience with others in the field and in this way contribute to developing good practice
• can plan and carry out communication and interaction with patients and next of kin based on the principles of respect, co-determination and integrity
• can plan and carry out targeted cooperation processes with patients, next of kin and other practitioners, and can prevent and resolve conflicts
• can reflect on his/her own professional practice and power structures when working with elderly people

Practical training in primarily nursing homes (eight weeks), supervised by a practical training supervisor and contact teacher, as well as simulation and skills training. Lectures and seminars with a contact teacher where current topics are explained based on the learning outcomes

Students will receive one week of preparatory theoretical teaching and simulation before embarking on eight weeks´ clinical training with direct patient contact.

Contact lecturer approves grade after recommendation from practical training supervisor. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.

Supervised individual written exam.

• 3 hours
• To pass the exam, the student must submit a faultless answer paper.

Not relevant.

SYKKPRA50x, SYKPPRA50x and SKOMPPRA20 are fully overlapping.

All answers are assessed by one examiner.

External peer groups from multiple institutions are used in the design of assignment sets and evaluation criteria.

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