SKUT4421 Specialisation in Special Needs Education 1 Course description

The purpose of the course is to teach the students the knowledge and skills necessary to perform correct drug calculations.

Credits based on the national curriculum are:

• Main topic 3 - 1 credit

Admission to the programme.

Masteroppgaven skal være et selvstendig vitenskapelig arbeid på der studenten må demonstrere innsikt i aktuell forskning og teorier, metoder og tilnærminger som er relevante for oppgavens tema og problemstilling.

På grunnlag av godkjent skisse for masteroppgaven får hver student utnevnt veileder, eventuelt to veiledere (hovedveileder og biveileder). Veileder oppnevnes av faglig leder for studiet etter samråd med studenten. Det gis inntil 24 timer veiledning på masteroppgaven.

Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt.

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

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Passed qualifying arithmetic problems (100% correct) in the form of multiple choice questions within a set time before the exam.

If the coursework is not approved after the third attempt, the student will be withdrawn from the exam. The same number of attempts will be given for coursework requirements at later exams.

If a student takes more than one academic year to take the exam after the required coursework is approved, the student may be required to repeat previously approved compulsory coursework before being allowed to take the exam in the course.

Supervised individual written exam, 3 hours.Students have three attempts at the exam. If the student does not pass the exam on the third attempt, he/she can apply for a fourth and final attempt. The exam is normally held four times in the course of the academic year.

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.

Følgende arbeidskrav må være godkjent før eksamen kan avlegges:

Studenten skal gi en seminarpresentasjon av masteroppgaven basert på prosjektskissen fra emne 2 i fagfordypningen.

Studenten må delta på de tre prosjektseminarene som blir arrangert, og presentere og drøfte relevante sider ved arbeidet med masteroppgavene.

Et viktig læringsutbytte i studiet er ferdigheten til å formidle egen og andres forskning på forsvarlig måte. Derfor legger studiet også vekt på arbeidsmåter preget av dialog, diskusjoner og studentpresentasjoner. For å realisere disse læringsutbyttene er det nødvendig med noen arbeidskrav. Gyldig fravær dokumentert med for eksempel sykemelding, gir ikke fritak for å innfri arbeidskrav. Fravær kan kompenseres med at studenten skriver en faglig oppgave. Faglærer formulerer og godkjenner oppgaven.

One internal examiner.