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.

Student BEST - Better and systematic team training is a teaching program in collaboration between the nursing, radiography, bioengineering and paramedic education, specialisation in anesthesia nursing (master) at OsloMet and the medical education at University of Oslo. The learning program uses simulation in teams and is used as a training method in receiving and stabilising trauma. The main focus is communication and interaction in an interprofessional group.

The interdisciplinary teaching programme is in the 3rd year of study and the students will follow the prior knowledge requirement for the other courses - Passed 1 year, SYKK/SYKP2100, SYKK / SYKP-PRA21 and PRA30 - to be able to participate here.*

* For year group 2022 at OsloMet, passed the first year of study, SYKK/SYKPPRA20, SYKK/SYKP1060, SYKK/SYKP200 and SYKK/SYKPPRA30.

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

The teaching program lasts one week, but each student only participates for 2 days. The learning activities are carried out in interprofessional student groups and take place at the SF unit at OsloMet (students nursing Pilestredet in Pilestredet and students nursing Kjeller at Kjeller).

The following interdisciplinary teaching programme must have been approved:

• simulation Student BEST – 2 days

Supervised individual written exam.

• Three hours.

None.

Pass-fail.

All answers are assessed by two examiners.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

• 13 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKP1000 Foundations of Nursing 1, 13 ECTS.
• 2 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKP1200 Microbiology and Infection Control, 5 ECTS.
• SYKK1010, SYKP1010 and SYKD1010 are fully overlapping.