SYKKPRA40B Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Course description

Physiotherapy practice requires expertise in how to adapt measures for patients with reduced functioning as a result of injury/disease of the musculoskeletal system, different pain conditions, mental and psychosomatic health problems, rheumatic and degenerative diseases, systemic disease (cancer), as well as for patients who have undergone surgical procedures. To provide professionally sound health services, physiotherapists must obtain information about the health of individuals. Physiotherapists must also have knowledge about possible relations between a person’s health condition, their cultural and socioeconomic background, and their prerequisites for movement, activity and participation.

Physiotherapists must also acquire up-to-date and relevant research-based knowledge and reflect on the transfer value of previous clinical experience to novel clinical practice.

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 discuss the nurse’s role and responsibilities in a chosen area of specialisation
• can summarise relevant research and professional development in the chosen specialisation

Skills

The student

• can create a project description, including a time schedule and how he/she intends to complete the bachelor’s thesis with the resources available
• can formulate a clear research question relating to nursing, which is possible to answer within the framework of the thesis
• can carry out an independent systematic literature review in accordance with the applicable research standards
• can clarify concepts, analysing and assessing different sources of information, and using these sources to formulate relevant argumentation
• can present specialist literature in an independent, logical, critical and systematic manner

General competence

The student i

• can disseminate and arguing for strengths and weaknesses of his/her own study in a substantial and methodical manner
• can reflect on relevant research ethics issues

Lectures, seminars, supervision, and self-study. All students will be allocated a supervisor.

Individuell skriftlig eksamen under tilsyn over 4 timer avholdes i slutten av semesteret.

Bachelor’s thesis.

• Literature review.
• Normally written in group with 2-3 students.
• Scope of 8,000 words (+/- 10%).

Resits/rescheduled exam: If the bachelor’s thesis is awarded a fail grade, the student has the right to submit a reworked version once.

Gradert skala A-F.

Det benyttes en intern og en ekstern sensor til sensurering av besvarelsene.

Et uttrekk på minst 25 % av besvarelsene sensureres av ekstern sensor. Karakterene på de besvarelsene som er vurdert av ekstern sensor danner grunnlag for å fastsette nivå på besvarelsene innenfor de ulike karakteruttrykkene. Intern sensor skal ta hensyn til ekstern sensors vurdering ved sensurering av alle eksamensoppgaver.

Knut Nygaard

Matematikk, Statistikk, Bedriftsøkonomi, og Finansregnskap med IKT

SYKKPRA40, and SYKPPRA40 and B overlap 100 %.