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

In this course, the student will learn about nursing for patients with chronic diseases, loss of function after injury or disease, intellectual disabilities and other complex diseases. The students will encounter patients in their own homes or in residential care homes. They will gain experience of communicating and interacting with patients and next-of-kin. Challenges related to key patient phenomena, functional impairment, mastery, dignity and user participation will be central aspects of the course. Different perspectives on nursing in a care and rehabilitation context are analysed with the home as the arena, at the intersection between paternalism and autonomy, as well as different cultural values. Interprofessional and intersectoral cooperation and service development and innovation are also included in the course.

In addition, the students taking this course in the spring semester will participate in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1300 ‘Interprofessional collaboration on and with children, young people and their families’, with a scope corresponding to 1.5 credits carried out in the beginning of January. The theme will be how different professions can cooperate on and with children and adolescents. This includes a theoretical understanding of and research-based knowledge about interprofessional cooperation about and with children, adolescents and their families. Examples of the students’ practical training periods in particular, and from interprofessional cooperation in different practical fields of practice in general, will be part of the work. The learning outcomes expected after completion of INTER1300 are marked with *. See INTERACT’s website for a more detailed description of the content of INTER1300

https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interacthttps://uni.oslomet.no/interact/

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.

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 explain different interprofessional methods of collaboration in the field of practice*
• can explain the challenges and possibilities of interprofessional cooperation processes* 

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
• can based on 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 (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
• 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.

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.

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

• INTER1300, Submitted individual log. Scope: 500 words (+/- 10%). In order to write the log, the student must first attend a seminar over two days.  

On successful completion of this course the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

Students will know

• how to evaluate water-, wastewater and stormwater system design to optimize, for example, manholes and overflow arrangements;
• about sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment to select the most beneficial methods for design, construction and maintenance;
• about strategies for establishing robust pipe systems requiring reduced ground work and digging trenches, developing of NO-dig methods and decision models for when to use the different methods;
• about holistic methods for ground works also in relation to non-water infrastructure (district heating, energy supplying and broadband cables).

Skills

Students will be able

• to integrate knowledge and to apply this to a range of scenarios;
• to effectively interact with project key stakeholders
• to select and design technology, processes and systems based on sound evaluation of criteria in water resource engineering;
• to collect, generate and critically analyse, information that may be uncertain or incomplete and to quantify the effect of this on problem solving, design and decision for water resource engineering.

General competence

Students can

• explore the material and energy resource efficiencyof the systems, including cables and district heating (transportation, trenches and materials);
• use advanced engineering methods for stormwater, including the three-level strategy;
• quantify the material and energy resource efficiency of processes and their impact in terms of emissions into recipient water bodies;
• select design technology, processes and systems based on sound evaluation of criteria in water system engineering.

The teaching will consist of a combination of:

• Lectures & discussions.
• Independent studies including video recordings and online exercises.
• Coursework assignments.
• Practical use of tools and software.

None.

The exam is a Portfolio exam, which consists of the following:

1) One individual software exercise to be handed in as a written document of maximum 10 pages including graphics.

2) One individual written design project, approximately 5 pages.

In the event of failed or valid absence of exam, the postponed exam will be given as either an oral or written examination.

The exam result can be appealed.

All aids are permitted.