SYKP1410 Diseases and Health Deficits Course description

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.

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 most common diseases that might require medical or surgical treatment, focusing on causes, pathophysiology, symptoms, signs and findings, diagnostic workup, disease course, treatment, and complications in children and adults
• can describe the most common tests and examinations used to diagnose disease in children and adults
• can explain how pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and variability in drug response determine the effects of medicines in the body
• can describe the drug classes used for the most common internal medicine and surgical conditions, with emphasis on monitoring therapeutic effects, potential adverse effects and interactions, and how medicines form part of the treatment

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

Self-study, lecturers, workshop, digital learning activities,. The flipped classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course.

The following must have been completed and approved in order for a student to take the exam:

• 80 % attendance of timetabled activity marked.
• Multiple-choice assignment, 60% of the answers must be correct.

Supervised individual written exam.

• 4 hours.

None.

Grade scale A-F.

All answers are assessed by one examiner.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum for every third ordinary examination. If selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 10 answers. The external examiner’s assessment shall form the basis for the assessment of the remaining answers.

• 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, SYKP1410 and SYKD1410 are fully overlapping.