SYKP1010 Foundations of Nursing 1 Course description

In this course, students will learn about human beings’ fundamental physiological and psychosocial needs and resources and human psychological development. Factors that promote, impedes, and maintains balance in people's fundamental needs are central aspects of the course. You will study the infection chain and how measures can be taken to break each link in the chain to prevent infection. Furthermore, hygiene is studied in relation to the environment that surrounds the patients and how basic infection control routines can prevent contagion and infections. You must also familiarise yourself with the relevant laws and regulations. The purpose is to enable the nurse to carry out duties in the municipal and specialist health services. Knowledge of communication skills and ethics in nursing is emphasised.

A week of inspirational practice is carried out in the autumn semester and is made visible in the timetable. The actual approval is registered in the subject SYKK/SYKPPRA10 in the spring semester.

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 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, and knows the characteristics of a scientific article, e.g. IMRAD
• 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 following must have been completed and approved in order for a student to take the exam:

• Individual assignment, scope of 1,500 words (+/- 10 %).
• Group assignment, 3-5 students, scope of 1,500 words (+/- 10 %).
• Participation in seminars, 80 % attendance of timetabled activity marked.
• Participation in workshop, in infection control.
• Participation om SF-unit, 90 % attendance of timetabled activity marked.

Home exam in groups.

• Carried out in groups of 3-5 students.
• Three days.
• Scope: 2,500 words (+/- 10 %).
• Individual description of own contribution to the group is attached to the assignment, 350 words (+/- 10%).

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

Pass-fail.

All answers are assessed by two examiners.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

• 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.