SYKK2100B Person Centered Care Course description

The teaching will consist of physical and digital lectures, class and home exercises (maximum 5) building on the theory being taught, and one individual assignment (written project report).

Online lectures will be recorded, and the material will be made available to students on Canvas.

Students must submit at least 80% of all compulsory exercises to be eligible to take the written exam. A maximum of 5 homework assignments, based on the theory being taught, will be given throughout the course. Students who fail to meet the coursework requirements can be given up to one re-submission opportunity before the exam

On successful completion of the course, the student has acquired the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can explain person-centered nursing for children and adults
• can describe normal development from childhood to adulthood
• can describe depression, anxiety (possibly mental illness), and substance abuse problems as possible part of a patient's reaction to illness
• can describe the care perspective related to hope and coping
• can give an account of nursing care for acute, critical and chronic illness and the consequences for person-centred nursing care
• can define what Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is and understand the rationale behind EBP and shared decision-making
• have knowledge of scientific theory and research methodology.
• can describe various types of studies and characteristics of different issues and scientific articles, and explain how knowledge is placed in the knowledge pyramid
• can describe the terms informed consent and consent competence, and their importance in the health service

Skills

The student can

• apply knowledge of person-centered nursing to discussions about disease, mental health, and substance abuse issues
• prevent and resolve value conflicts/conflicts of interest in meetings with patients, relatives and other cooperating parties
• describe methods for collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data
• develop a relevant search strategy for a nursing professional/clinical question and conduct the search for summarised knowledge (from the top of the knowledge pyramid)
• critically evaluate health claims in the media and analyse and interpret the processes by which information and misinformation are distinguished, disseminated, and used in various contexts

General competence

The student can

• reflect on how person-centered nursing, as a working process, can contribute to caring for patients with disease, mental health, and substance abuse issues
• can describe research ethical aspects in all phases of research projects

All printed and written aids and a calculator that cannot be used to communicate with others. Computer use (offline) with MS Excel software may be provided during the exam.

Grade scale A - F.

One internal examiner.

External examiners are used regularly.

Awais Ahmed

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements.

The course is based on knowledge acquired in the course BYVE3300 Statics , part of the bachelor's degree program in civil engineering (OsloMet), or a course with an equivalent learning outcomes.

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.

• 5 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKPPRA20x Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, 20 ECTS.
• SYKK2100, SYKP2100 og SYKD2100 are fully overlapping.