SYKPPRA21K Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1 Course description

The course focuses on evidence-based public health work, with particular emphasis on health promotion and preventive efforts in community health services. Central themes include understanding how health challenges are distributed in the population. Therefore, you will learn how factors such as education, employment, living conditions, and the environment influence disease, health, and quality of life in the population at individual, group, and societal levels. The environment in which children and young people grow up is also part of the course.

In community health services, nurses have a significant responsibility to offer care and guidance to various population groups, including healthy individuals, vulnerable populations, and marginalised groups. One topic of discussion is how the development of service offerings and the use of technology in healthcare impact social, ethical, and political issues.

In this course, you will gain insight into scientific methods and undertake a group project related to practical internship (5 weeks), during which you will plan and execute a project under supervision. This project work provides the group with the opportunity to explore a chosen area of concern and employ suitable methods for data collection and analysis. The results will be presented orally as well as in written form as a project assignment.

In this course, you study together with students who are on exchange to OsloMet and much of the teaching is arranged with English-speaking groups.

• Completed course SYKK/SYKP1410 Diseases and Health Deficits, 13 credits.
• Passed course SYKK/SYKP1310 Administration of Medicine, 2 credits.

To start this course, you must have passed:

• Passed the first year of study.

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 patients’ subjective experiences of disease and suffering and the importance of hope amidst serious illness
• can describe an account of nursing care for medical or surgical treatment
• is familiar with various documentation systems in nursing
• can describe the phenomena pain, treatment of pain and pain relief
• can describe measures to preserve life and health in the event of major accidents and in crisis and disaster situations

Skills

The student

• can systematically map and assess the patient's resources, problems and needs as well as implement measures, and evaluate and document effects (the nursing process)
• can describe for and perform person-centered nursing related to the current patient situation
• can use current clinical mapping and communication tools and be able to justify measures in the practice of nursing
• can document in clinical documentation systems using standardised terminology
• can carry out and assessing relevant nursing procedures
• can apply relevant medical technology in the practical performance of nursing
• can recognise stress and crisis situations in the event of loss and disease and adapting communication based on this
• can communicate with patients and next-of-kin adapted to the level of development/cognitive function and the condition
• can masters HRL and general first aid according to the ABCDE principle
• can implement measures in the event of sub-acute and acute incidents
• can identify ethical dilemmas in practice and reflect on different choices of action

General competence

The student

• can integrate knowledge from pathophysiology and pharmacology in the performance of nursing
• can reflect on responsible drug administration at an individual and systematic level
• can demonstrate responsibility, engagement, independence and can follow professional ethical guidelines when encountering patients, next-of-kin and colleagues
• can reflect on his/her own professional practice and progression
• can reflect on how culture and a cultural understanding can be significant in assessments, planning, performance and evaluation of nursing

Practical training: in the specialist health service (medicine/surgery) (8 weeks), supervised by the practical training supervisor and contact lecturer and simulation and skills training. Includes digital learning resources, case studies, simulation and skills training and seminars. First aid practice constitutes one day of the practical training.

Lectures, teaching programs from the University Library, project-based practical training (five weeks) group work, self-study, and participation with presentations at seminars.

Assessment in practical training.

The assessment takes its point of departure in given criteria based on learning outcomes for the course, criteria for failing the practical training, criteria for suitability assessment and compulsory activities carried throughout the practical training. Students’ practical training can only be assessed if their attendance is sufficiently high (90%). For more information, see the general part of the programme description about the assessment of practical training.

If the student has failed the practical training, the whole practical training course must be retaken. This includes associated requirements.

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

• Project-based practical training, 90 % attendance of timetabled activity marked as compulsory.

Part 1 Project assignment in group.

• 4-6 student in group.
• Scope of 5,000 words (+/- 10 %).

The assignment can be given in English or Scandinavian language. The individual group must deliver in the same language.

Part 1 must be passed before part 2 oral presentation of the project assignment can be carried out.

Resit exam: A student who fails the ordinary exam, may nevertheless submit a reworked version as a resit.

Part 2 Presentation of project assignment

• In seminar.

The presentation can be given in English or Scandinavian language. The individual group must deliver in the same language.

Part 1 and part 2 must have obtained a pass grade on both parts in order to pass the course as a whole and earn the credits. Part 1 and part 2 appear on the diploma

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

Part 1 Pass-fail.

Part 2 Pass-fail.