BARNPRA3 Clinical Studies in Paediatric Nursing, Level 3 Course description

Practical training takes place at neonatal intensive care units, paediatric intensive care units for older children, paediatric surgery/intermediate care units, postoperative units and/or paediatric medical/intermediate care units. After completing the course, the students are expected to have action competence in the field of paediatric nursing, which means being capable of taking responsibility and demonstrating the ability to make independent assessments in paediatric nursing practice, both in elective and in more acute and complex situation. The students are expected to demonstrate clear progress, take responsibility and, to an increasing extent, demonstrate the ability to make independent assessments in paediatric nursing practice.

Students must have passed BARNPRA20/MBARNPRA20 Clinical Studies in Paediatric Nursing, Level 2 in order to start this course.

Nurse anaesthesia is an independent professional practice that takes place in close collaboration with other members of the healthcare team, in particular anaesthetists. The anaesthesiology functions of a nurse anaesthetist are delegated by a doctor and require specialist anaesthesiology competence. Anaesthesiology work comprises general and regional anaesthesia and observing patients under e.g. sedation. Knowledge is required to be able to initiate quick and adequate treatment in acute situations until other help arrives, and is a precondition for close collaboration with anaesthetists.

ABIO6000/MAABI4000, Medisinsk og naturvitenskapelig kunnskap 10 stp., must have been approved in order for a student to be permitted to take the exam for this course.

The following coursework requirements must be met before a student can receive an assessment for the course:

• The student’s specification of learning outcomes for the course
• The student must submit at least one written assessment per month
• Teaching/guidance of children and their caregivers
• Teaching/guidance of fellow students and/or other health personnel

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 in-depth knowledge of different anaesthetics and their uses, effects and side-effects
• has in-depth knowledge of all common anaesthesia forms and techniques
• has in-depth knowledge of special circumstances relating to different surgical procedures that have a bearing on the choice and application of different anaesthesia forms, techniques and drugs
• has in-depth knowledge of characteristics of particular patient groups that have implications for the choice and administration of anaesthetics
• has in-depth knowledge of trauma mechanisms, trauma scoring, triage and transport of trauma patients

Skills:

The student

• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to existing theories and methods in nurse anaesthesiology
• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to theories on the link between illness/injury and the choice of anaesthetics and anaesthesia methods

Lectures and self-study.

None.

Supervised individual written exam, 6 hours.

Inger Lucia Søjbjerg

Grade scale A-F.