SYKP1010 Foundations of Nursing 1 Course description

This course addresses different forms of Educational Design Research (EDR) and the related term Design-Based Research (DBR), providing participants with a foundation in the theoretical and historical underpinnings of EDR. The course provides examples of EDR projects by the course leaders including the different steps and considerations that go in to planning such studies. Finally, the course emphasizes student participation, discussion and getting feedback on their own EDR designs and thesis writing.

Approved by LUI's educational committee 21.06.2021

After completion of the course, the student will have acquired the following learning outcomes, defined as knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

The student

• has knowledge of the historical, epistemological, and methodological issues connected to different perspectives on Educational Design Research and Design-Based Research

• has understanding of principles and questions for selecting Educational Design Research and distinguishing between related methodologies

• has knowledge of current issues and research in the educational sciences related to EDR, including ethical considerations, the role of the researcher, and the roles of partners and participants

Skills

The student

• can plan and develop research designs following EDR principles
• can make choices about methods for data collection and analysis within EDR projects
• can identify key considerations for working with partners in authentic settings to carry our EDR projects

General competence

The student

• can develop nuanced readings and critiques of current EDR research literature

• can integrate EDR methodologies into the candidates own research projects

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 describe the historical development of nursing and what characterises nursing as a profession
• can describe the human being’s fundamental needs and resources
• can describe the human being’s psychological development and needs
• can describe the main features of the ethics of care
• can describe what characterises an ethically difficult situation
• can describe central ethical principles such as autonomy, non-harm, beneficence, and justice
• can explain the duty of confidentiality and documentation
• can describe characteristics of empathetic communication and cooperation and how this is applied to nursing practice also towards people with different cultural backgrounds
• can explain basic infection control procedures in the health services
• can describe the content of the Act Relating to the Control of Communicable Diseases and relevant regulations
• is capable of describing steps in evidence-based practice (EBP) and explain the contents and what makes up assessment, action and decision-making processes

Skills

The student

• can reflect on ethical difficulty situations by applying the SME model (Centre for medical ethics, UiO)
• has basic communication skills
• can participate actively in group cooperation and receive supervision and reflecting on his/her own role
• masters the principles of academic writing,
• can perform and justify relevant procedures related to the care of basic physiological needs, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation with the use of a defibrillatorcan
• can break the chain of infection and preventing the spread of unwanted microbes
• can use knowledge of basic infection control procedures in the health services

General competence

The student

• can exchange views on the foundations of nursing
• can reflect on the significance of own efforts in study groups and reflecting on challenges when group processes are used as learning methods
• has a basic understanding of the nurse’s preventive function in infection control and hygiene in the health and care services

Self-study, lectures, workshop, digital learning resources, group work, seminars with presentations, and simulation and skills training.

The flipped classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course. Digital learning resources will be made available in advance.

The course will address sustainability from a societal perspective. Societal institutions, technical infrastructures, and culture constitute frames within which practices evolve. The course will provide the candidates with perspectives for critically analysing the role these societal frames have in inhibiting and enabling a transition towards sustainability, and for engaging in constructive discussions of how sustainable practices can be facilitated at a societal level. Cases will be used to stimulate interdisciplinary investigation of these issues. The syllabus may be abbreviated and adapted to fit the interest of the participants of the course in cooperation with the supervisors.

The course will address the following, non-exclusive list of themes:

• Socio-technical systems perspectives.
• Theories of both social inertia and change.
• Dominant economic systems and alternatives to them, including circular economy.
• Human-centric world views and alternatives, including more-than-human perspectives.

Completed Master’s degree (120 ECTS credits) or equivalent education level.

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

Pass-fail.

Lectures, workshops, seminars.

• 13 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKP1000 Foundations of Nursing 1, 13 ECTS.
• 2 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKP1200 Microbiology and Infection Control, 5 ECTS.
• SYKK1010 and SYKP1010 are fully overlapping.