SYKKPRA40 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Course description

Normally taught in English. Can be taught in Norwegian if no English-speaking students are taking the course.

In this course, you learn about health-promoting and preventive work at both individual, group and society level. The course gives you knowledge about conditions that promote health and quality of life and challenges that entail health risks. This includes nursing challenges in working with healthy vulnerable and marginalised groups, and children and young people's upbringing environment.

In addition, students will participate in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1200 ‘Communication with children and adolescents’, with a scope corresponding to 1.5 credits carried out in the beginning of January. Exchange students may occasionally be exempted from this requirement. Relevant topics include children’s and adolescents’ cooperation with professionals, explorative approaches to children and adolescents and professionals’ contributions to children and adolescents’ formation of opinions. The learning outcomes expected after completion of INTER1200 are marked with *. See INTERACT’s website for a more detailed description of the content of INTER1200. https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interact

Admission to the programme.

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 reflecting on health promoting and preventive work at the individual-, group- and society level with focus on healthy, vulnerable and marginalised groups
• is capable of describing conditions that influence children and adolescent’s formative environment and how activity and well-being are significant for health, welfare and the prevention of disease for all groups of the population
• is capable of describing key issues related to women’s health
• is capable of describing key issues related to sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases
• is capable of describing how migration, refugee and judicial status can affect each person’s health
• has knowledge about the importance of appreciative communication with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians*
• can explain children and adolescents’ right to participation in decisions that concern them*
• can explain the importance of explorative approaches in cooperation with children and adolescents*

Skills

The student is capable of

• exploring how social health determinants are significant to public health and work inclusion at the individual and group level
• using knowledge of pregnancy, birth and the post-partum period
• completing a project under supervision and disseminating the results
• carry out a conversation about everyday life with children and adolescents*
• have appreciative communication with parents/guardians*

Competence

The student is capable of

• discussing the connection between social health determinants and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• reflecting on the health risks of people who live with demanding caregiving tasks, drug addictions in the family, and people who have experienced neglect or domestic violence
• can reflect on their own role in explorative conversation with children, adolescents and their parent/guardians*
• understands the importance of interprofessional cooperation with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians*

This course introduces students to basic pharmacology, drug administration and drug calculation. They will learn about the connection between drug administration and patient safety and about the accuracy requirements that apply to working with drugs. This is an introductory course in pharmacology and drug administration, and the theme will be continued in the second and third years of study.

Admission to the programme.

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

• describing different types of medication, administration methods, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
• describing interactions and side effects of the use of selected drugs
• describing different reasons for variations in the response to drugs
• describing generic drug substitution and applying the Norwegian Medicines Agency's substitution list or local substitution list
• describing the procedure for handling drugs from the drug is prescribed until the patient has taken it or it has been disposed of
• referring to relevant legislation and regulations for the use of drugs, including guidelines for documentation, handling of non-conformities and disposal
• giving an account of the risk of addiction and abuse of drugs

SkillsThe student is capable of

• carrying out independent and faultless calculations of drug dosages, quantities and strengths using different methods of administration
• assessing and checking their own and other people’s calculations
• using reference works such as Felleskatalogen and Legemiddelhåndboka

CompetenceThe student is capable of

• planning and carrying out responsible drug administration and quality assuring the individual patient’s use of drugs

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Pass/fail. One overall grade is awarded for the whole group.

The following must have been completed and approved in order for a student to take the exam:

• Participation at the seminars. Compulsory attendance of 80% at seminars
• Simulation in drug administrations, reflection assignment based on the simulation with a scope of 1,000 words (+/- 10%).
• Multiple choice assignment, qualifying arithmetic problems (100% correct) in the form of multiple choice questions within a set time before the exam. If the coursework is not approved after the third attempt, the student will be withdrawn from the exam.

Supervised individual written national exam

• In drug calculations
• 3 hours
• To pass the exam, the student must submit a faultless answer paper