SYBA1110 The Basic Psycho-Social and Existential Needs of the Human Being and Nursing as a Science and Profession Course description

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 knowledge of

• basic psychosocial human needs: the need for social contact, security and identity/inherent worth
• basic existential human needs: the need for meaning and context in life
• people's experience of their own life situation and failing health: quality of life, dignity, pain and coping
• nursing as a profession and a science: the history, tradition and nature of nursing, practising nursing on the basis of knowledge of the patients' lifeworld, values in nursing, and nursing practice on the basis of qualitative research
• ethical principles and ethical problems
• interviews and observation as research methods 

Skills

The student is capable of

• identifying peoples' psychosocial and existential needs
• using knowledge of peoples' experiences when basic needs are threatened
• reflecting on the roles of patient and nurse from ethical and nursing science perspectives
• identifying ethical dilemmas/problems
• searching for, assessing and referring to information and specialist literature, including scholarly and research articles, and presenting it in a way that elucidates an issue or topic
• reading research articles based on qualitative methodology

Competence

The student

• has insight into what can lead to basic psychosocial and existential needs being threatened
• has insight into relevant ethical issues
• has insight into nursing issues relating to the patient's basic needs and resources

Lectures and assignments in online courses, group work, written assignments, supervision and self-study.

The following coursework must have been approved in order for a student to be permitted to take the exam:

• 100% attendance at five seminars

• Study assignment in groups. Subject note. Scope: 2,000 words (+/- 20%).

• Multiple choice assignment.

  • 60% correct on digital multiple choice assignments

  • 40 tasks with four answer options per questions

Individual written home exam over 3 days. 2,000 words (+/- 20%).

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

Grade scale A-F.

All exam papers are assessed by two examiners. One internal and one external examiner.

SYBAS1110 and SYBA1110 overlap 100%.