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SYKKPRA20K Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1 Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Sykepleie til pasienter med akutt, kritisk og kronisk sykdom 1
Study programme
Bachelor's Programme in Nursing
Weight
20.0 ECTS
Year of study
2021/2022
Course history

Introduction

This course teaches students about patients and next-of-kin in an acute and critical context, and what the nurse’s areas of responsibility entail. Students will learn to communicate and cooperate with patients and next-of-kin in situations of stress and crisis. They will also become familiar with key phenomena in nursing, such as hope, insecurity, fear, fatigue, pain and nausea. Systematic observation and assessment, nursing of somatic diseases, pre and postoperative nursing, competent drug administration and health guidance are also part of the course.

Recommended preliminary courses

Emnet overlapper 5 studiepoeng med BYPE2200.

Required preliminary courses

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:

  • is capable of explaining the geodetic basis for specifying the height and coordinates of markers in the terrain, as well as the main principles of the theory of errors
  • knows the principles behind GNSS, total stations and other surveying equipment
  • knows the theory behind practical calculations in surveying
  • understands how scanning could be used in a building project

Skills

The student is capable of:

  • calculating the heights and coordinates of markers in the terrain, and of calculating the area of plots and closed traverses
  • calculate and carry out free arrangements and staking out points
  • can measure points
  • using a total station and level telescope
  • drawing cross- and longitudinal sections and carrying out mass calculations

General competence

The student:

  • understands the use of geographic information for planning, execution and control of building activities using digital equipment such as a total station and GPS, and of using relevant software to interpret the results. The student is capable of using manual calculations to check the results.

Learning outcomes

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:

  • is familiar with the common design models for structural elements and simple and complex structures of steel and wood
  • is familiar with design methods described in Eurocode 3 and Eurocode 5

Skills

The student is capable of:

  • using mechanics of materials and dimensioning methods to dimension load-bearing structural elements and joints in structures made of varying combinations of wood and steel

General competence

The student:

  • Has a general understanding of the theoretical basis of Eurocode 3 and 5.

Teaching and learning methods

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can take the exam:

  • 4 of 6 compulsory practical exercises

Course requirements

Individual written exam under supervision, 3 hours

The result of the exam can be appealed.

Any resit or rescheduled exam may take the form of an oral exam. If oral exams are used for resits and rescheduled exams, the exam results cannot be appealed.

Assessment

All aids is included, except communication with others.

Permitted exam materials and equipment

Grade scale A-F.

Grading scale

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.

Examiners

Christian Nordahl Rolfsen

Overlapping courses

SYKKPRA20M, SYKKPRA20K, SYKPPRA20M og SYKPPRA20K overlap 100 %.