SYKPPRA70I Prevention and Rehabilitation in Home-based Healthcare Service Course description

Normally taught in English. Taught in Norwegian if no English-speaking students are taking the course.

In this course, you will plan and carry out a small-scale research project under supervision. The objective is to get a sense of what it is like to conduct research in the field of nursing. You will carry out the project in groups of students under the supervision of the lecturer with a view to understand and apply research. The group itself will choose the problem area and data collection and analysis methods to be used. The results will be published in a project report.

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 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
• can describe measures to preserve life and health in the event of major accidents and in crisis and disaster situations (kun for kull 2020 studieåret 2022-2023)
• can explain different interprofessional methods of collaboration in the field of practice*
• can explain the challenges and possibilities of interprofessional cooperation processes*;

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Skills

The student is capable of

• adapting and integrating theoretical and practical knowledge of the nurse's rehabilitating and health promoting function in order 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 to prevent a deterioration in function, and to reverse such deterioration once it has begun
• planning and carrying out nursing measures to ensure the safe transfer of patients between different units and levels of the health services
• planning and carrying out nursing for patients in the last phase of life and following up next-of-kin and those left behind
• masters general first aid according to the ABC principle (kun for kull 2020 studieåret 2022-2023)
• can on the basis of;examples from their own practical training, analyse and assess interprofessional cooperation processes on and with children and young people with challenges*
• can establish interprofessional cooperation about and with children, young people and their parents/guardians*

Competence

The student is capable of

• critically reflecting on how information, communication and welfare technology can strengthen the municipality’s services
• exchanging points of view and experience with others in the field and in this way contribute to developing good practice
• 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 important theories, issues and solutions in the field, both orally and in writing
• reflecting on ethical perspectives when nursing is carried out in private homes
• engaging in new thinking and innovation processes through project work
• reflecting on existing procedures and methods, 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 in the patients' homes
• reflecting and critically assessing ethical and legal challenges in the use of technology and digital solutions ;
• understanding how the patients’ linguistic and cultural background might affect how quality and patient safety is addressed
• understanding of;the basis for and necessity of interprofessional cooperation about and with children, young people and their parents/guardians, and of their own professional contribution to the cooperation*

Practical training: over eight weeks in the municipal health service, home-based services. Includes self-study, lectures, simulation, flipped classroom, digital learning resources and seminars.

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. 2 Days.

Lectures, seminars, self-study and group work.

The first week comprises lectures about research and research methods, and students will also be divided into groups, choose their topic and plan the project. The second week comprises supervised group work with data collection and analysis. In the third week, students will write their project report, and present and discuss the results.

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.

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If the student has failed the practical training, the whole practical training course must be retaken. This includes associated requirements (not includes INTER1300)

Group home exam

• 3–5 students per group.
• The exam period extends throughout the course.
• Scope of 3,000 words (+/- 10%).

Resit exam: A student who fails the ordinary exam can submit a reworked version once as a resit.

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

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

Pass/fail. One overall grade is awarded for the whole group.

One external and one internal examiner will assess at least 10% of the exam papers. The remaining papers will be assessed by two internal examiners. The external examiner’s assessment should benefit all the students.