SYKP1300 Pharmacology and Administration of Medicine Course description

This course introduces students to basic pharmacology, drug administration and drug calculation. They will learn about the connection between drug administration and patient safety and about the accuracy requirements that apply to working with drugs. This is an introductory course in pharmacology and drug administration, and the theme will be continued in the second and third years of study.

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 describing the historical development and social mandate of nursing and the discipline’s development from work to profession
• is capable of describing the human being’s fundamental needs and resources
• is capable of describing factors that can influence a patient's ability to self-care
• is capable of describing the human being’s psychological development and needs
• is capable of describing stepsin evidence-based practice (EBP) and explain the contents and what makes up assessment, action and decision-making processes in nursing
• is capable of describing the main elements of care ethics and why attitudes and values have a central place in nursing
• is capable of describing the main elements of care ethics and why attitudes and values have a central place in nursing  
• kan beskrive og begrunne hva som kjennetegner en etisk vanskelig situasjonis capable of describing key values such as self-determination, respect, dignity and solidarity
• is capable of explaining the relevance of the duty of confidentiality and duty to document for nursing practice
• is capable of describing characteristics of empathetic communication and cooperation and how this is applied to nursing practice

Skills

The student

• is capable of reflecting 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 defibrillator

Competence

The student is capable of

• exchanging views on the foundations of nursing
• reflecting on the significance of own efforts in study groups and reflecting on challenges when group processes are used as learning methods

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.

The following coursework requirement must have been approved in order for the student to take the examination:

• Project description for the bachelor’s thesis, scope 1,000 words (+/- 10%).
• Completed supervision, three compulsory supervision sessions out of the four sessions offered.

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.

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

Grade scale A-F.

One internal and one external examiner.

SYKK3900, SYKP3900, SYKD3900 and SKOMP3910 are fully overlapping.