SYKKPRA50IB Nursing Persons with Mental Health Problems Course description

In this course, students will learn about mental health work, relational skills and factors that promote and harm the mental health of individuals and groups. People's resources and opportunities, but also their vulnerabilities as individuals, are areas of focus. The significance of close relationships and society's influence are important for mental health and are emphasised in the course. This includes patient phenomena such as hope and hopelessness, pain and pain relief, exhaustion and energy.

In addition, the students taking this course in the spring semester will participate in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1300 ‘Interprofessional collaboration on and with children, young people and their families’, with a scope corresponding to 1.5 credits carried out in the beginning of January. The theme will be how different professions can cooperate on and with children and adolescents. This includes a theoretical understanding of and research-based knowledge about interprofessional cooperation about and with children, adolescents and their families. Examples of the students’ practical training periods in particular, and from interprofessional cooperation in different practical fields of practice in general, will be part of the work. The learning outcomes expected after completion of INTER1300 are marked with *. See INTERACT’s website for a more detailed description of the content of INTER1300

https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interacthttps://uni.oslomet.no/interact/

Passed the courses:

• SYKP/SYKP1000 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing/Fundamentals of Nursing 1, 13 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1100 Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, 12 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1200 Microbiology and Infection Control, 5 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1300 Pharmacology and Drug Administration, 5 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1400 Diseases and Health Deficits, 10 credits
• SYKK/SYKPPRA10 The Fundamentals of Nursing/2, 15 credits
• SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases/1, 20 credits
• SYKK/SYKPPRA30K Decision-making in Nursing and Patient Safety/Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases2, 10 credits

or equivalent

Students must have passed INTENPRA10 Clinical Studies in Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, Level 1 in order to start this course.

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

• has in-depth knowledge of complications in connection with acute and/or critical illness, advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• has in-depth knowledge about maintaining and restoring vital functions if they are threatened

Skills:

The student

• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to existing theories and methods in advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• is capable of observing, assessing and identifying a patient's general and special needs, resources and problems through communication and cooperation with the patient and his/her next of kin
• is capable of preventing complications in connection with acute and/or critical illness, advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• is capable of reducing stress, pain and discomfort in connection with advanced medical treatment and intensive care nursing
• is capable of maintaining and restoring vital functions if they are threatened
• is capable of applying knowledge of nutrition in connection with acute and/or critical illness
• is capable, with some supervision, of work on practical and theoretical problem-solving relating to the intensive care nurse's functions and areas of responsibility:
• is capable of carrying out wholly or partly compensatory intensive care nursing in the event of serious failure of patients' organs or organ systems, including assisted respiration, assisted circulation and nutrition therapy and renal replacement therapy
• is capable of identifying acute situations
• is capable of administering and evaluating pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain relief to intensive care patients
• is capable of administering and evaluating sedation of intensive care patients
• is capable of checking and using medical equipment and has a reflective attitude to the possibilities and limitations of technology
• is capable of practising intensive care nursing with respect for patients¿ autonomy, integrity and dignity
• is capable of cooperating with patients¿ next of kin, showing respect and care, and safeguarding their rights
• is capable of critical reflection when making choices and acting in an ethically and legally satisfactory manner
• is capable of ensuring continuity in patient treatment through written and oral documentation
• is capable of documenting, evaluating and quality assuring his/her own work

Competence:

The student

• is capable, with some supervision, of analysing relevant ethical issues in intensive care nursing based on relevant discipline knowledge, research, experience and patient knowledge
• is capable, with some supervision, of carrying out wholly or partly compensatory intensive care nursing in the event of serious self-care deficits in relation to a patient's fundamental needs
• is capable of cooperating with members of his/her own profession and across professions in patient treatment

Simulation and supervised practical training

The following coursework requirements must be met before a student can receive an assessment for the course:

• The student¿s specification of learning outcomes for the course.
• The student must submit at least one written assessment per month
• Attendance in compulsory activities
  • Simulation

• Paediatric nursing in a historical perspective
• Paediatric nursing:
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Pain and stress relief
  • Health promotion
  • Rehabilitation and habilitation
  • Teaching and guidance
  • Administration and management
  • Research and development
• Comprehensive care for the family
• Ethical theories
• Ethical argumentation and decision-making theory
• Evidence-based paediatric nursing
• Addressing child patients' psychosocial and developmental needs
• Evidence-based paediatric nursing

Not relevant.

Pass-Fail.

The summative assessment is carried out by a representative of the practical training establishment and a representative of the university. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.