SYBAPRA6A Clinical Studies, Medicine Course description

Passed second year of the programme 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

• has broad knowledge of injuries and pathological conditions and treatment forms for the most common illnesses in the medical field
• has broad knowledge of how illnesses influence basic needs
• has knowledge of palliative care and the death process
• has broad knowledge of pharmacology and drug administration
• has broad knowledge of clinical assessment processes in nursing to address the patient's basic needs and improve their own resources in the course of the illness
• has broad knowledge of nursing diagnoses and documentation systems
• has knowledge of professional ethics, dignity and integrity
• has knowledge of the relationship between culture, the body and illness
• has broad knowledge of the meaning of next of kin for patients' health and quality of life
• has knowledge of health legislation: division of authority, internal control, injuries/accidents, the right to immediate assessment and treatment
• has broad knowledge of evidence-based practice
• has knowledge of organisation and management in the specialist health service
• has knowledge of interdisciplinary cooperation

Skills

The student is capable of

• communicating and interacting with patients and their next of kin during the course of an illness
• conducting systematic observation, and identifying and assessing patients' nursing diagnoses
• planning, prioritising and performing nursing interventions and assessing these
• performing clinical procedures in accordance with the applicable guidelines
• using the documentation system and documenting in accordance with professional and legal requirements
• assessing laboratory results
• preparing the patient for an examination or treatment
• using relevant research results relating to the target group and making sound choices of action
• administering drugs in line with the applicable health legislation
• using relevant medical technology
• using different mapping tools in patient treatments
• identifying different ethical issues and dilemmas, making ethical considerations, safeguarding the patient's dignity and integrity and promoting the patient and next of kin's right of co-determination and autonomy
• organising, managing and coordinating nursing for a group of patients
• cooperating with other professional groups

Competence

The student

• is capable of planning and carrying out nursing work in the specialist health service
• is capable of sharing opinions and experience relating to ethical challenges (dignity and integrity)
• has insight into advanced medical procedures and the use of advanced medical technical equipment
• is capable of sharing opinions that can contribute to practical development in the field

Clinical training, lectures, group work, written assignments, logs, simulations at the simulation and skills centre and self-study.

For students who take the course 6A in the autumn semester, the course comprises approx. two weeks' theoretical teaching in preparation for clinical training, and eight weeks' clinical training with direct patient contact.

For students who take the course 6B in the spring semester, the course comprises ten weeks' clinical training with direct patient contact.

All clinical training have different compulsory activities and tasks in the implementation. See chapter on Clinical training.

In addition, the following must be approved before the final assessment

• Practical test at the simulation and skills centre
• Minimum attendance of 80% in theoretical teaching

One of the important tasks in physiotherapy is to map and assess individuals’ possibilities and challenges where they live in cooperation with their environment in order to facilitate measures that form part of habilitation, rehabilitation and health-promoting work. This requires knowledge about different life arenas and about how the individual’s prerequisites change throughout their life span or through the course of an illness. This course addresses aging and the arenas where elderly people live their lives, as well as the role of physiotherapists in health promotion and illness prevention. The course also introduces rehabilitation as concepts and a field of knowledge at the individual and societal level. Physiotherapists must also facilitate and implement measures for groups, and the practical training in this course will therefore give students experience of supervising and leading activity and movement groups.

Passed first year of the programme or equivalent.

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

Knowledge

The student can

• describe rehabilitation as a field of knowledge and reflect on the possibilities and challenges relating to interprofessional processes, both in the municipal and the specialist health service
• describe decision-making processes in health and social policy at the municipal, regional and national level
• reflect on how priorities in the health sector and other sectors of society can affect the public health

Skills

The student can

• discuss the application of standardised measurement methods and examinations that measure elderly persons’ physical condition, level of activity, participation and quality of life, as well as results linked to the clinical examination of patients
• propose and give grounds for health-promoting primary and secondary preventive measures in a diverse society that promote mental and physical health and social inclusion
• supervise and instruct participants in groups for the purpose of primary and secondary prevention, and adapt exercises and movements at individual and group level
• discuss and give grounds for the application of learning- and empowerment theories when supervising activity and movement groups

General competence

The student can

• reflect on knowledge regarding the effect of health-promoting measures
• reflect on how physiotherapists can facilitate user participation in cooperation with patients and relatives in a national and international perspective
• reflect on how cultural backgrounds and life span factors at individual and societal level can impact activity, participation and health in the aging process
• reflect on ethical considerations linked to facilitation of different measures

The work and teaching methods include self-study, group work, seminars skills training, lectures and experience-based practical training.

Students will have a period of experiences-based practical training. During this period, 12 hours will be set aside for experience-based practical training relating to movement- and activity groups, and 18 hours is set aside for preparation for practical training/follow up of practical training.

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

• a minimum attendance of 80 % in teaching specified as ‘compulsory attendance’ in the schedule
• a minimum attendance of 90 % in experience-based practical training relating to leading and supervising movement and activity groups. Scope: 12 hours
• subject note, 1,400 words (+/- 10 %), based on experience-based practical training (leading movement and activity group), 4-5 students per group. The coursework will be subject to assessment