SYKK1010 Foundations of Nursing 1 Course description

In this course, students will learn about human beings’ fundamental physiological and psychosocial needs and resources and human psychological development. Factors that promote, impedes, and maintains balance in people's fundamental needs are central aspects of the course. You will study the infection chain and how measures can be taken to break each link in the chain to prevent infection. Furthermore, hygiene is studied in relation to the environment that surrounds the patients and how basic infection control routines can prevent contagion and infections. You must also familiarise yourself with the relevant laws and regulations. The purpose is to enable the nurse to carry out duties in the municipal and specialist health services. Knowledge of communication skills and ethics in nursing is emphasised.

A week of inspirational practice is carried out in the autumn semester and is made visible in the timetable. The actual approval is registered in the subject SYKK/SYKPPRA10 in the spring semester.

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 general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can describe the historical development of nursing and what characterises nursing as a profession
• can describe the human being’s fundamental needs and resources
• can describe the human being’s psychological development and needs
• can describe basic concepts in ethics in the health service
• can explain the duty of confidentiality and documentation
• can describe characteristics of communication and cooperation and how this is applied to nursing practice also towards people with different cultural backgrounds
• can explain basic infection control procedures in the health services
• can describe the content of the Act Relating to the Control of Communicable Diseases and relevant regulations
• is capable of describing steps in evidence-based practice (EBP)
• can explain the contents and what makes up assessment, action and decision-making processes (the nursing process)

Skills

The student

• can apply four central principles of health ethics
• has basic communication skills
• can participate actively in group cooperation and receive supervision and reflecting on his/her own role
• masters the principles of academic writing,
• can perform and justify relevant procedures related to the care of basic physiological needs, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation with the use of a defibrillatorcan
• can break the chain of infection and preventing the spread of unwanted microbes
• can use knowledge of basic infection control procedures in the health services

General competence

The student

• can exchange views on the foundations of nursing
• can reflect on the significance of own efforts in study groups and reflecting on challenges when group processes are used as learning methods
• has a basic understanding of the nurse’s preventive function in infection control and hygiene in the health and care services

No additional course-specific requirements.

The following must have been completed and approved in order for a student to take the exam:

• Individual assignment, scope of 1,500 words (+/- 10 %).
• 80 % attendance of timetabled activity marked.
• Participation in workshop, in infection control.

The course uses a blended learning approach, with a combination of attendance-based seminars and digital learning materials. Students will explore real-world cases emerging at the intersection of society, technology and their future profession.

English will be the primary language of communication.

None.

Portfolio assessment

The portfolio will consist of a choice of three from a set of assignments offered in the course. For assignments that require working in groups, each group may consist of 2-5 candidates.

Each of the assignments has a word limit of 1000 words (+/- 10%), or 7 minutes (+/- 1 minute) for video or audio submissions.

The portfolio is assessed as a whole and given one single grade.

All assignments in the portfolio must be written in either English or a Scandinavian language.

The exam can be appealed.

Postponed exam: A student who fails or have leagal absence in the ordinary exam, may submit a reworked version at a re-sit.

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

Pass/fail.