SYKKPRA30K Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2 Course description

The course SYKK/SYKPPRA20 and SYKK/SYKPPRA30 complement each other. In this course, the students will practice independence in planning, carrying out and assessing nursing in acute and chronically ill patients. The prevention of complications and early detection of deterioration in the patients’ condition are key elements. Quality development, patient safety and ethics and health gudiance are also part of the course.

Passed the courses:

• SYKK/SYKPPRA10 The Fundamentals of Nursing/Fundamentals of Nursing 2, 15 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1400 Diseases and Health Deficits, 10 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1300 Pharmacology and Administration of Medicine, 5 credits 
• Part 1 of SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1

or equivalent.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student is capable of

• explaining care pathways an in acute, critical and chronic diseases and treatments
• under supervision, contributing to equal nursing services independent of patients’ gender, ethnicity, religion and view of life, functional impairment, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and age
• explaining the significance of nutrition in the event of disease and challenges linked to obesity, malnutrition and disease-related undernourishment
• assessing factors related to an increased risk of patient injuries or unwanted incidents and contributing to work processes to promote quality improvement and patient safety
• explaining the significance of next-of-kin for the patients’ health and quality of life both when it comes to majority and minority cultures
• explaining key concepts in the nurse’s pedagogical responsibilities: guidance, counselling, health guidance and shared decision-making
• explaining information security in nursing
• explaining package progress in the health service

Skills

The student is capable of

• carrying out and explaining nursing to patients with the most common symptoms, signs of change/deterioration at an early stage, and implementing necessary measures
• implementing national knowledge-based professional procedures and national guidelines
• applying different approaches and methods in health guidance adapted to the individual's needs
• applying educational principles when imparting information, teaching and counselling patients and next-of-kin and communicating across language barriers with the help of a professional interpreter

Competence

The student

• can show responsibility, commitment, independence and follow professional ethical guidelines in meetings with patients, next-of-kin and colleagues
• can reflect on his/her own professional practice and progression
• can reflect on how unwanted incidents can occur and discussing this in relation to professional responsibility in the practice of nursing
• can safeguard the patient’s dignity and integrity and promoting the patient and next-of-kin’s right of co-determination and autonomy

Practical training: in the specialist health service (medicine/surgery) (7 weeks), includes SF unit and seminars.

Practical training has requirements for attendance 90 %. The student fills in a self-presentation for the start of the practice and self-assessment for the mid- and final assessment. Other compulsory activities are:

• SF unit (wound)
• digital seminar (nutrition)

Assessment in practice

The assessment takes its point of departure in given criteria based on learning outcomes for the course, assessment criteria, the continuous assessment, the suitability assessment and compulsory activities carried throughout the practical training. Students’ practical training can only be assessed if their attendance is sufficiently high (90%). For more information, see the general part of the programme description about the assessment of practical training.

If the student has failed the practical training, the whole practical training course must be retaken. This includes associated requirements.

Not relevant.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has

• advanced knowledge of information needs as well as of use of information and knowledge in different contexts such as everyday life, working life, research and education, etc.
• good overview and specialized knowledge of the role of various channels for satisfying the information needs and their prominence for seeking and sharing information and knowledge
• advanced knowledge of the theoretical models for understanding seeking and sharing of information and knowledge
• advanced understanding of the relationship between human information behaviour and methods of information and knowledge management

Skills

The student is able to

• use empirical and theoretical models on information behaviour and information mediating institutions' role in information seeking processes to design research projects
• reflect upon how information needs and information use is affected and changed by political, demographic, cultural and technological changes, the emergence of new forms of learning and experience, etc.
• plan, develop and lead information and knowledge management in practice with reference to in-depth knowledge of information needs and information seeking behaviour

General competence

The student has the ability to

• analytically discuss and assess the flow of information at a workplace.
• participate in knowledge management projects at a workplace.

The course is organized as a series of three three-day sessions.

The course is given either in Scandinavian languages with occasional English contributions, or exclusively in English.

The following coursework requirements must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

1. An individually written short paper (between 1,500 and 2000 words, equals with about 3 -4 pages) on freely chosen concepts related to the topics of the course and based on course literature.

All required coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline in order for the student to take the exam.If one or more coursework requirements have not been approved, the student will be given the opportunity to submit an improved version once by the given deadline.