SYKP1100 Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry Course description

The course forms the basis for the nurse’s observation and assessment skills. An understanding of normality is necessary in order to observe and assess abnormalities. This course allows the student to acquire knowledge of the human being's composition and functions and the biochemical processes that influence the body.

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

• naming anatomical structures and organs in the human body
• describing where organs are located in relation to each other

• describing anatomical structure in terms of

  • macroanatomical: organs and organ systems
  • microanatomical: cells and tissues
• describing the function of different organs and organ systems in the body
• describing interaction between the various organ systems
• explaining key biochemical processes in a healthy body
• describing normal physiology in the various organs and organ systems
• describing regulation mechanisms and homoeostasis in a healthy body

Skills

The student

• is capable of disseminating basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiological processes
• is capable of disseminating of biochemical processes

Competence

The student

• recognises the importance of broad knowledge of the topic for practising professional nursing

Lectures, group work, seminars, written assignments, supervision, multiple choice assignments and self-study.

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:

• participation in seminars - compulsory attendance of 80% at seminars
• multiple choice assignments - 60% correct answers on digital multiple choice tests

Supervised individual written national exam

• 4 hours

None.

Grade scale A-F.

National examination body (two examiners).

SYKK1100, SYKP1100, SYBA1010, SYBAS1010, and SPH1230 overlap 100 %.