SYBAPRA6A Clinical Studies, Medicine Course description

Passed second 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 broad knowledge of injuries and pathological conditions and treatment forms for the most common illnesses in the medical field
• has broad knowledge of how illnesses influence basic needs
• has knowledge of palliative care and the death process
• has broad knowledge of pharmacology and drug administration
• has broad knowledge of clinical assessment processes in nursing to address the patient's basic needs and improve their own resources in the course of the illness
• has broad knowledge of nursing diagnoses and documentation systems
• has knowledge of professional ethics, dignity and integrity
• has knowledge of the relationship between culture, the body and illness
• has broad knowledge of the meaning of next of kin for patients' health and quality of life
• has knowledge of health legislation: division of authority, internal control, injuries/accidents, the right to immediate assessment and treatment
• has broad knowledge of evidence-based practice
• has knowledge of organisation and management in the specialist health service
• has knowledge of interdisciplinary cooperation

Skills

The student is capable of

• communicating and interacting with patients and their next of kin during the course of an illness
• conducting systematic observation, and identifying and assessing patients' nursing diagnoses
• planning, prioritising and performing nursing interventions and assessing these
• performing clinical procedures in accordance with the applicable guidelines
• using the documentation system and documenting in accordance with professional and legal requirements
• assessing laboratory results
• preparing the patient for an examination or treatment
• using relevant research results relating to the target group and making sound choices of action
• administering drugs in line with the applicable health legislation
• using relevant medical technology
• using different mapping tools in patient treatments
• identifying different ethical issues and dilemmas, making ethical considerations, safeguarding the patient's dignity and integrity and promoting the patient and next of kin's right of co-determination and autonomy
• organising, managing and coordinating nursing for a group of patients
• cooperating with other professional groups

Competence

The student

• is capable of planning and carrying out nursing work in the specialist health service
• is capable of sharing opinions and experience relating to ethical challenges (dignity and integrity)
• has insight into advanced medical procedures and the use of advanced medical technical equipment
• is capable of sharing opinions that can contribute to practical development in the field

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

For students who take the course 6A in the autumn semester, the course comprises approx. two weeks' theoretical teaching in preparation for clinical training, and eight weeks' clinical training with direct patient contact.

For students who take the course 6B in the spring semester, the course comprises ten weeks' clinical training with direct patient contact.

All clinical training have different compulsory activities and tasks in the implementation. See chapter on Clinical training. Special requirements must be approved before assessment can be done on the course SYBASPRA6B.

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.

SYBASPRA6B, SYBAPRA6A and B overlap 100%.