SYKPPRA70IB 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/

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

KnowledgeThe student

• can explain simulation as a method
• can describe how simulation can contribute to increasing patient safety
• can describe how it is possible to update your own skills in a chosen subject area and how to contribute to developing professional practice

SkillsThe student

• can apply simulation in different contexts
• can devise a teaching plan with simulation as a method in light of the educational learning outcome descriptions
• can reflect on current procedures and methods, and take the initiative to engage in dialogue about the implementation of new knowledge and new work methods

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CompetenceThe student

• can reflect on their own teaching activities with simulation as a method
• can reflect on nursing issues within a chosen subject area

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*

None.

Group home exam

• In groups of up to seven students.
• The exam period extends throughout the course.
• Scope of 1,500 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.;

The course overlaps 100% with SYK2820A and SYK2820B.

SYKKPRA70 and SYKPPRA70 overlap 100%.