SYKPPRA50 Nursing Persons with Mental Health Problems Course description

Pass/fail.

Contact lecturer approves grade after recommendation from practical training supervisor. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.

SYKKPRA50 and SYKPRA50 overlap 100 %.

Practical training over 10 weeks, including self-study, simulation, digital learning resources, lectures and seminars.

The flipped classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course. Digital learning resources will be made available in advance.

Digital learning resources are used for parts of INTER1300 ‘Interprofessional cooperation about and with children, adolescents and their families’, including digital resource lectures with lecturers from different study programmes, relevant cases and examples. Casework, observations and assignments related to interprofessional group work and self-study are also used. The students’ experience from practical training periods and examples from relevant practical training arenas are actively included in the work.

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

• Attendance in compulsory activities, 90% in practical training studies
• Participation in seminars, compulsory attendance of 80% in seminars. Peer feedback
• Simulation, relational skills and cooperation
• Reflection assignment, individual assignment on ethics, power and legislation related to the student's own experience from practical training. Scope of 1000 words (+/- 10%).
• INTER1300, see the website for more details on the coursework requirement https://uni.oslomet.no/interact/

This course teaches students about patients and next-of-kin in an acute and critical context, and what the nurse’s areas of responsibility entail. Students will learn to communicate and cooperate with patients and next-of-kin in situations of stress and crisis. They will also become familiar with key phenomena in nursing, such as hope, insecurity, fear, fatigue, pain and nausea. Systematic observation and assessment, nursing of somatic diseases, pre and postoperative nursing, competent drug administration and health guidance are also part of the course.

• Approved work requirements from SYKK/SYKP1300 Pharmacology and Drug Administration, 5 credits

Passed course:

• SYKP/SYKP1000 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing, 13 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1100 Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, 12 credits
• SYKK/SYKP1200 Microbiology and Infection Control, 5 credits
• Passed part 1 Practical training from course SYKK/SYKPPRA10 Fundamentals of Nursing (year group 2020)
• SYKK/SYKPPRA10 Fundamentals of Nursing, 15 credits (year group 2021)

or equivalent.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• is capable of describing the patients’ subjective experiences of disease and suffering and the importance of hope amidst serious illness
• is capable of explaining the most common reactions to crises in the event of illness and loss
• is capable of describing patient-centred nursing of children and adults
• is capable of describing pre and postoperative nursing of children and adults
• is capable of describing the phenomena pain, treatment of pain and pain relief
• is capable of explaining key concepts in the nurse’s pedagogical responsibilities: guidance, counselling, health guidance and shared decision-making
• is capable of explaining how the patient’s health competence is significant for life style changes and shared decision-making

Skills

The student

• is capable of performing nursing work through systematic observation, assessment and documentation of the patient’s resources, problems and needs
• is capable of applying mapping tools such as ABCDE (airway, breathing, circulation, disability, expose) and NEWS (National Early Warning Score) and the communication tool ISBAR (Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation)
• is familiar with the classification system (ICNP® - International Classification for Nursing Practice)
• is capable of carrying out and assessing relevant nursing procedures
• is capable of applying relevant medical technology in the practical performance of nursing
• is capable of recognising stress and crisis situations in the event of loss and disease and adapting communication based on this
• is capable of communicating with children, adolescents and parents/guardians adapted to the level of development/cognitive function and the condition
• is capable of applying educational principles when imparting information, teaching and counselling patients and next-of-kin
• is capable of implementing measures in the event of sub-acute and acute incidents
• is capable of identifying ethical dilemmas in practice and reflect on different choices of action
• is capable of carrying out and explaining nursing to patients with the most common symptoms, diseases, care pathways and treatment in the nursing practice

Competence

The student is capable of

• integrating knowledge from pathophysiology and pharmacology in the performance of nursing
• reflecting on responsible drug administration at an individual and systematic level
• demonstrating responsibility, engagement, independence and can follow professional ethical guidelines when encountering patients, next-of-kin and colleagues
• reflecting on his/her own professional practice and progression
• reflecting 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 simulations and skills treining (4 weeks). Includes digital learning resources, case studies, simulation and skills training and seminars.

Part 1 Assessment of practical training

Practical training has requirements for attendance, self-presentation for the start of the practice and self-assessment for the mid- and final assessment.

Part 2 Supervised individual written exam

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take part 2 of the exam:

• participation in the SF-unit, compulsory attendance of 90 %, includes the following topics:

  • patients’ experiences, reactions and needs in connection with acute and critical illness
  • health guidance in the event of disease and health deficits
  • systematic mapping and assessment in acute and critical situations
  • nursing children in hospital