SYBAPRA6B 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. Each clinical training course consists of 5 weeks of practice with direct patient contact, where a 5-day week is carried out, ie 37.5 hours per week. For each clinical training course, there are an additional 2 weeks of simulation, reflection and assignments.

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

In addition, the following must be approved before the final assessment can be done:

• Practical test at the simulation and skills centre
• Student-BEST

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.

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

• philosophy of science and quantitative research methods
• evidence-based practice
• system and relation perspectives in nursing
• decision-making processes using standardised classification systems: nursing documentation, ICT and eHealth
• development psychology, crisis theory and coping theory, personality psychology, learning, belonging and identity, sociopsychological processes (the individual and community) and how illness affects people's behaviour

• pathological processes, prognoses and treatment forms in the following mental health disorders/challenges:

  • eating disorders
  • substance abuse problems
  • suicide-related problems
  • intellectual disabilities
  • behavioural and emotional disorders in children and young people
• education and learning: guidance, teaching, health information and changes in health behaviour, and nurses' educational role
• demography and epidemiology: national and global health
• clinical examination methods and general first aid in accordance with the ABCDE principle

Skills:

The student

• is skilled in using clinical examination methods and assessments
• is capable of finding, assessing and referring to relevant research articles in order to elucidate nursing issues, both orally and in writing
• is capable of communicating and applying educational knowledge when providing guidance to patients and next of kin
• is capable of applying health information and knowledge of changes in health behaviour to practical issues
• is capable of reflecting on professional ethics, fair distribution, cooperation and human rights
• is capable of reflecting on the connection between poverty and health both nationally and globally and of describing national challenges in public health work

Competence:

The student is capable of

• sharing opinions about ethical challenges, with particular emphasis on safeguarding patients' autonomy, integrity and dignity
• planning and carrying out tasks related to nurses' educational role
• documenting nursing in a legally and professionally sound manner