SYKP1410B Diseases and Health Deficits Course description

An external examiner takes part in preparing the exam questions and assessment criteria and assesses a minimum of 20% of the papers together with an internal examiner. Two internal examiners assess the remaining students. The external examiner's assessment shall benefit all students.

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, 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

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:

• Participation in workshop, 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 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.

• 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.