SYKK3000 Student BEST Course description

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

Self-study, lectures, workshop, digital learning resources, group work, seminars with presentations, and simulation and skills training.

The flipped classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course. Digital learning resources will be made available in advance.

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.

Supervised individual written exam.

• Three hours.