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SYKP1410 Diseases and Health Deficits Course description
- Course name in Norwegian
- Sykdom og helsesvikt
- Study programme
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Bachelor's Programme in Nursing
- Weight
- 13.0 ECTS
- Year of study
- 2024/2025
- Programme description
- Course history
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Introduction
Knowledge of pathology and treatment, including pharmacology, are a precondition for the nurse’s assessment, action and decision processes. In this course, the students will acquire knowledge of the most common diseases in medicine and surgery among children and adults. You must also acquire knowledge of pharmacology. This is a preparatory course leading up to SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, taken in the second year.
Required preliminary courses
Admission to the programme.
Learning outcomes
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 most common diseases that might require medical or surgical treatment, with a focus on symptoms and signs, phases of illness and treatment in children and adults
- can describe the most common tests and examinations used to diagnose disease
- can describe different types of medication, administration methods, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
- can describe different reasons for variations in the response to drugs
- describing different groups of drugs for the most common internal medicine diseases and conditions requiring surgery, with emphasis on effects, possible side effects and interactions
Skills
The student
- can use reference works such as Felleskatalogen and Legemiddelhåndboka
General competence
The student
- can reflect on how knowledge of the most common diseases and causes of health deficits are key to the practice of nursing
Teaching and learning methods
Self-study, lecturers, workshop, digital learning activities,. The flipped classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course.
Course requirements
The following must have been completed and approved in order for a student to take the exam:
- Participation in workshop, 80 % attendance of timetabled activity marked.
- Multiple-choice assignment, 60% of the answers must be correct.
Assessment
Supervised individual written exam.
- 4 hours.
Permitted exam materials and equipment
None.
Grading scale
Grade scale A-F.
Examiners
All answers are assessed by one examiner.
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.
Overlapping courses
- 10 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKP1400 Diseases and Health Deficits, 10 ECTS.
- 3 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKP1300 Pharmacology and Administration of Medicine, 5 ECTS.
- SYKK1410 and SYKP1410 are fully overlapping.