VERPRA30 Practical Studies Related to Bachelor Thesis Course description

The main focus is on milieu therapy work, habilitation and rehabilitation in relation to the social educator's field of work. VERPRA30 includes user-oriented supervised practical training in authentic work situations. The bachelor's thesis in VERB3900 is written on the basis of experience gained during VERPRA30. Cooperation across enterprises, levels and sectors, quality-enhancing work processes and new thinking are important in relation to measures to be established/continued.

The students themselves choose a relevant area of specialisation offered by the university. Alternatively, the students themselves can propose relevant areas of specialisation. The students will cooperate with the practice placement and the service recipient(s) on relevant issues that they will work on independently during the course.

VERPRA30 includes eleven weeks of user-oriented practical training in authentic work situations. There is also three weeks of seminars relating to this course and course VERB3900 before the practical training period. These seminar weeks will include skills training in how to provide counselling/supervision, among other things. Management skills are another focus area. The seminar weeks will also focus on thesis outline, data collection methods, the APA style of referencing and carrying out projects in preparation for the bachelor's thesis.

The students will also participate in the interprofessional project INTER1300 wtih scope of work corresponding to 1,5 credits:  Interprofessional Cooperation about and with Children, Young People and Their Families. 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, young people and their families.

INTER1300 addresses the learning outcomes marked with an asterisk (*) and written in italics.

Learning outcomes marked with two asterisks (**) are covered during the preparation weeks before VERPRA30 and VERB3900.

Se omtale av praksis i programplanen

Se omtale av praksis i programplanen

Andre praksisperiode består av 20 dager pedagogisk praksis.

For studenter som fullførte første praksisperiode våren 2021 eller våren 2022 så består andre praksisperiode av 25 dager pedagogisk praksis.

Se nærmere omtale av praksis i programplanen

Se omtale av praksis i programplanen

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

• has advanced knowledge of nursing as a discipline and a science and can analyse clinical issues to identify a need for research and professional development
• has in-depth knowledge of the research process

Skills

The student is capable of

• analysing relevant theories and clinical issues to initiate a research or development project
• using relevant methods for research or development work in their own work
• analysing and taking a critical approach to different sources of information and using them in professional argumentation in their own research or development project
• carrying out an independent, limited research or development project in accordance with applicable standards of research ethics

Competence

The student is capable of

• communicating relevant issues, analyses and conclusions from their own research or development work to both the general public and academia
• developing patient care by implementing research and engaging in professional development

Not relevant

Se omtale av praksis i programplanen

Se omtale av praksis i programplanen

Written master's thesis, preferably written in pairs of students.

The master's thesis can be written as a monograph or as an article/articles on a specialised topic.

Scope: Monograph: When two write together: 35,000 words (+/- 25 %) When writing alone: 35,000 words (+/- 10%)

Scope: Article(s) (publishable manuscript with a scope and design suited to the chosen journal) and a specialised topic: When two write together: 7,000 words (+/- 25 %) When writing alone: 7,000 words (+/- 10%)

The thesis must be in accordance with the guidelines for work on the master's thesis in Nursing - Clinical Research and Professional Development.

Students are offered twenty hours' supervision.

Supervision agreement signed by students and supervisor at the start of the supervision.

The literature selected by the student in connection with the master¿s thesis must comprise approx. 4,000 pages. The literature must be relevant to the research question and method(s) used in the master¿s thesis.

In the appendix to the thesis follows an overview of what the individual has contributed when two students write together.