SYKPPRA30MB Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2 Course description

The course SYKK/SYKPPRA21 and SYKK/SYKPPRA30 complement each other. In this course, the students will practice independence in planning, carrying out and assessing nursing in acute and chronically ill patients. The prevention of complications and early detection of deterioration in the patients’ condition are key elements. Quality development, patient safety and ethics and health gudiance are also part of the course.

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

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 explain care pathways an in acute, critical and chronic diseases and treatments
• can, under supervision, contribute to nursing services that are of equal value for patients, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, and view of life, functional disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and age
• can explain the significance of nutrition in disease and challenges that can arise from malnutrition, undernutrition, and obesity
• can assess how adverse events can occur, and discuss this in relation to quality improvement, patient safety, and professional adequacy in performance of nursing
• can explain the significance of next-of-kin for the patients’ health and quality of life both when it comes to majority and minority cultures
• can explain key concepts in the nurse’s pedagogical responsibilities: guidance, counselling, health guidance and shared decision-making
• can explain information security in nursing practice
• can explain integrated care pathways in the health service and collaborate with other professionals

Skills

The student

• can carry out and explain person-centered nursing to patients with the most common symptoms, signs of change/deterioration at an early stage, and implementing necessary measures
• can implement national knowledge-based professional procedures and national guidelines
• can apply various pedagogical methods in health education adapted to the individual's needs
• can appropriately adjust communication with patients and next-of-kin from a cultural perspective and across language barriers with the help of an interpreter

General competence

The student

• can show responsibility, commitment, independence and follow professional ethical guidelines in meetings with patients, next-of-kin and colleagues
• can reflect on his/her own professional practice and progression
• has insight into quality indicators in nursing practice
• can safeguard the patient’s dignity and integrity and promoting the patient and next-of-kin’s right of co-determination and autonomy

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.

SYKKPRA30x, SYKPPRA30x and SYKDPRA30x are fully overlapping.