SKOMPPRA1 Clinical studies, Homebased Services/Nursing Home Course description

The course begins with one practice-preparing weeks.The students will be introduced to the Norwegian understanding of supervision, management and the nurse's role and function in Helsehus.

Credits based on the national curriculum are:

• Main topic 1 - 3 credits

• Main topic 2 - 8 credits

• Main topic 3 - 2 credits

• Main topic 4 - 2 credits

Admission to the programme.

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 broad knowledge of the impact of diseases on basic needs

• has broad clinical assessment processes in nursing aimed at attending to the patient’s basic needs and strengthen the patient’s own resources in the course of the disease

• has knowledge of pharmacology and drug administration related to relevant diseases

• has knowledge of acts and regulations relating to drug administration

• has knowledge of dignity and existential challenges in the target groups

• has knowledge of relevant patient phenomena

• has knowledge of the situation of next of kin

• has knowledge of management of municipal nursing services based on legal provisions: the right to necessary medical assistance, information and participation, and individual plans

• has knowledge of care services towards the end of life

• has knowledge of the meaning of aesthetics in nursing

• has knowledge of communication theory related to the target groups’ special needs 

Skills: 

The student is capable of

• providing nursing care that attends to the patient's basic needs and resources, with a focus on patients with permanent or recurring medical conditions

• organising, managing and coordinating nursing for a group of patients

• using the documentation system and documenting in accordance with professional and legal requirements

• using different mapping tools in patient treatments

• using professional ethical guidelines including the duty of secrecy

• considering relationships between multi diagnoses, polypharmacy and the patient's condition

• master relevant drug administration

• is capable of knowledge-based practice in Helsehus

• identifying ethical challenges and making decisions on the basis of professional reflection

• providing nursing care that safeguards the patient's dignity in relation to existential issues and challenges

• is capable of using the relevant documentation system

• using knowledge of legislation with particular focus on user participation and capacity to give consent

• reflecting on nursing care provided in the municipal health service

• using communication theory related to the target groups¿ special needs, and to interdisiplinary cooperation

• informing, teaching and providing guidance to patients and next of kin about problems that arise in connection with illness, suffering and death

• teaching and providing guidance to colleagues and fellow students

Competence: 

The student

• is capable of planning and carrying out nursing work in the municipal health service

• is capable of sharing opinions and experience relating to ethical challenges

• is capable of sharing opinions that can contribute to professional development

• has insight into cooperation in and between the municipal health service and the specialist health service

Clinical training, lectures, group work, written assignments, logs, training at the simulation and skills centre, seminars, supervision and self-study.

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

All clinical training have different mandatory activities and tasks in the implementation. See chapter on Clinical training

The assessment is based on the learning outcomes for the course, the student's specification of the learning outcomes and the formative assessment made of the student during the clinical training period.

Students¿ clinical training can only be assessed if their attendance is sufficiently high.

• Less than 10% absence: The student can complete the clinical training course as normal.
• 10-20% absence: If possible, the student can make up for the clinical training missed. This must be agreed with the clinical training supervisor and the supervisor at the university.
• More than 20% absence: The student must retake the whole clinical training course.

Students are responsible for obtaining a copy of their assessment form from the supervisor. The form must be presented to the new supervisor in the next clinical training period.

Not relevant.

Pass-fail. 

One representative of the clinical training establishment and one representative of the university. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.

Some of the content overlaps with the courses SYBA/SPRA1, 2 and 6 from the bachelor's programme at Pilestredet and Sandvika.