SYBAPRA2 Clinical Studies, Home-Based Services Course description

Passed first year of the programme or equivalent.

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

• clinical assessment processes in nursing aimed at attending to the patient's basic needs and resources, with a focus on patients with permanent or recurring medical conditions
• pharmacology and drug administration related to relevant diseases
• dignity and existential challenges in the target groups
• relevant patient phenomena
• the situation of next of kin
• management of municipal nursing services based on legal provisions: the right to necessary medical assistance, information and participation and individual plans
• welfare technology in the home

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
• is capable of considering relationships between multi diagnoses, polypharmacy and the patient's condition
• masters relevant drug administration
• is capable of knowledge-based practice in people's homes and other forms of housing
• is capable of identifying ethical challenges and making decisions on the basis of professional reflection
• is capable of providing nursing care that safeguards the patient's dignity in relation to existential issues and challenges
• is capable of using the relevant documentation system
• is capable of using knowledge of legislation with particular focus on user participation and capacity to give consent
• is capable of reflecting on the nursing provided in the municipal health service
• is capable of using communication theory related to the target groups' special needs

Competence:

The student:

• has insight into the planning and performing of nursing work in the municipal health service
• has insight into ethical challenges relating to dignity and integrity
• demonstrates a socially critical and analytical approach to the health service
• has insight into cooperation in and between the municipal health service and the specialist health service

Clinical training, lectures, group work, clinical groups, written assignments, logs, seminars, simulation including excursion, supervision and self-study.

Students will receive approx. two weeks of preparatory theoretical teaching, before embarking on eight weeks' clinical training with direct patient contact.

All clinical training have different compulsory activities and tasks in the implementation.

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.

SYBAPRA2 and SYBASPRA2 overlap 100%.