SYKKPRA30M Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2 Course description

The course SYKK/SYKPPRA21 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. You will complete 8 weeks of practical training in this course.

To start this course you must have passed:

• Passed the first year of study.
• SYKK/SYKPPRA21 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, 15 credits.

or equivalent.

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 explain care pathways an in acute, critical and chronic diseases and treatments
• can, under supervision, contribute to nursing services that are of equal value for patients, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, and view of life, functional disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and age
• can explain the significance of nutrition in disease and challenges that can arise from malnutrition, undernutrition, and obesity
• can assess how adverse events can occur, and discuss this in relation to quality improvement, patient safety, and professional adequacy in nursing practice
• can explain the significance of next-of-kin for the patients’ health and quality of life both when it comes to majority and minority cultures
• can explain key concepts in the nurse’s pedagogical responsibilities: guidance, counselling, health guidance and shared decision-making
• can explain information security in nursing practice
• can explain integrated care pathways in the health service and collaborate with other professionals

Skills

The student

• can carry out and explain person-centered nursing to patients with the most common symptoms, signs of change/deterioration at an early stage, and implementing necessary measures
• can implement national knowledge-based professional procedures and national guidelines
• can apply various pedagogical methods in health education adapted to the individual's needs
• can appropriately adjust communication with patients and next-of-kin from a cultural perspective and across language barriers with the help of an interpreter

General 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
• has insight into quality indicators in nursing practice
• 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) (8 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 included in the assessment of practical training are:

• SF-unit.
• Digital seminar (nutrition).

Assessment in practical training.

The assessment takes its point of departure in given criteria based on learning outcomes for the course, criteria for failing the practical training, criteria for 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.

In technological and scientific courses, we use mathematics to create models of reality. This enables engineers and natural scientists to calculate the outcome of complicated processes.

Among other things, the course covers mathematics for describing gas and liquid flows in process plants, and air flows in ventilation systems. The methods are also used to describe electromagnetic field propagation in the atmosphere and in conductors. Some of the techniques can be used to calculate the flow volume running through a pipe or watercourse. The Norwegian physicist Vilhelm Bjerknes was a pioneer in the use of this type of mathematics to forecast the weather.

The course deals with subjects that form part of engineering programmes all over the world. An understanding of these subjects will enable students to communicate with other engineers, to participate in professional discussions where the use of mathematics is assumed, and to read specialist literature where mathematics is used. The course also provides a formal background for continued studies leading up to a master’s degree in several fields. The course builds on Mathematics 1000 and Mathematics 2000.

The elective course is initiated provided that a sufficient number of students choose the course.

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

The contact lecturer approves the grade after recommendation from the practical training supervisor. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.

The teaching is organised as scheduled work sessions. During the work sessions, the students shall practise using the material with which they are presented. Exercises consist of group discussions, individual practice in solving assignments, formulating and solving problems and assessing their own and others’ assignments submitted for weekly assessment.

The students shall learn how to assess their own and others’ scholarly works and formulate assessments of them in such a way that the assessment can serve as advice on further studies. These practical exercises will take place in the scheduled part of the work sessions. Students will therefore carry out weekly assessments of exercises set for the week. Information about how the weekly assessment will take place will be given in the lectures.

The students are required to complete exercises between work sessions. The proposed exercises will be directly linked to the course goals. Self-assessment of answers will give students insight into whether they have achieved the goals.