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SYKPPRA70 Prevention and Rehabilitation in Home-based Healthcare Service Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Hjemmebaserte tjenester, rehabilitering og forebygging
Weight
15.0 ECTS
Year of study
2023/2024
Course history
Curriculum
FALL 2023
Schedule
  • Introduction

    Kunnskap

    Studenten har kunnskap om

    • grunnleggende forskningsmetoder, spesielt knyttet til journalistikk- og medieforskning
    • et journalistfaglig emne som de ønsker å gå i dybden på

    Ferdigheter

    Studenten kan

    • utvikle en problemstilling
    • gjennomføre en undersøkelse innen et valgt tema
    • begrunne hvorfor et emne er interessant

    Generell kompetanse

    Studenten har

    • en reflekterende og kritisk holdning til vitenskapelig kunnskap
    • evne til å gå i dybden og å strukturere et større materiale
  • Required preliminary courses

    Passed course:

    • SYKP/SYKP1000 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing/Fundamentals of Nursing 1, 13 credits
    • SYKK/SYKP1100 Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, 12 credits
    • SYKK/SYKP1200 Microbiology and Infection Control, 5 credits
    • SYKK/SYKP1300 Pharmacology and Drug Administration, 5 credits
    • SYKK/SYKP1400 Diseases and Health Deficits, 10 credits
    • SYKK/SYKPPRA10 The Fundamentals of Nursing/2, 15 credits
    • SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases, 20 credits
    • SYKK/SYKPPRA30K Decision-making in Nursing and Patient Safety/Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2, 10 credits

    or equivalent.

  • Learning outcomes

    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

    • can discuss the nurse’s role in health promoting work and (re)habilitation enterprises for different age groups
    • can explain the terms everyday rehabilitation and (re)habilitation at home
    • can explain the nursing of children with lasting health challenges and their families
    • can discuss health counselling at the individual, group, and social level

     

    Skills

    The student is capable of

    • adapting and integrating theoretical and practical knowledge of the nurse's rehabilitating and health promoting function to promote the best possible functional level, well-being and quality of life for the individual, in cooperation with other health professions
    • identifying persons with a high risk of functional impairment early enough to implement measures
    • planning and carrying out nursing measures to ensure the safe transfer of patients between different units and levels of the municipal health service planning and carrying out nursing for patients in the last phase of life and following up next-of-kin and those left behind

     

    Competence

    The student is capable of

    • critically reflecting (professional, ethical, and legal) on how information, communication and welfare technology can strengthen the municipality’s services
    • exploring what a lack of activity and unmet psychosocial needs can lead to over time, and discussing how new measures can strengthen the traditional services provided
    • discussing his/her own professional role in an interprofessional context and initiating and contributing to interprofessional and intersectoral cooperation
    • communicating and sharing experiences related to central subject matter such as theories, problems, and solutions, both in writing and orally
    • reflecting on ethical perspectives when nursing is carried out in private homes
    • engaging in new thinking and innovation processes through project work and taking the initiative to quality improvement and implementation of new work methods
    • discussing cultural sensitivity and reflecting on the significance of cultural understanding in nursing practice, quality, and patient safety in the patients' homes
    • using technology and digital solutions to support patients’ and next-of-kin's resources, mastering possibilities and participation
  • Teaching and learning methods

    Studenten(e) leverer, innen en bestemt frist, inn søknad om å få godkjent prosjektskisse. Søknaden skal beskrive problemstillinger, metoder, kildegrunnlag og en tidsplan for arbeidet. Søknaden avgjøres av instituttlederen eller av den instituttlederen bemyndiger. Det blir lagt vekt på at arbeidet kan gjennomføres innenfor den gitte tidsrammen.

    Fordypningsoppgaven skal inneholde en redegjørelse for formål med arbeidet, problemstillinger og metodespørsmål, særlig valg og vurdering av kilder. Den skal ha en innholdsfortegnelse og en samlet kildeoversikt. Det kreves utførlige kildehenvisninger. Intervjukilder og andre informanter skal som hovedregel anonymiseres.

  • Course requirements

    Practical training has requirements for attendance 90 %. The student fills in a self-presentation for the start of the practice and self-assessment for the mid- and final assessment. Other compulsory activities are:

    • simulation palliation in home-based services - 2 days
    • innovation and service development, participation in workshops related to innovation and innovation processes - 2 days
    • group assignment (3-5 students) - based on learning outcomes in the course, the group formulates an issue related to nursing in private homes or in care homes. Creates a project description for the mid-term evaluation. Scope 1000 words (+/- 10 %). Based on the project description, the group creates a poster that is presented at a seminar before the final assessment.

  • Assessment

    The assessment takes its point of departure in given criteria based on learning outcomes for the course, assessment criteria, the continuous assessment, the 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.

  • Permitted exam materials and equipment

    Oppgaven bedømmes etter en gradert skala med fem trinn fra A til E for bestått og F for ikke bestått.

  • Grading scale

    Fordypningsoppgaven vurderes av en kommisjon som består av intern og ekstern sensor

  • Examiners

    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.

  • Overlapping courses

    SYKKPRA70 and SYKPPRA70 overlap 100%.