Programplaner og emneplaner - Student
SYKDPRA21B null Course description
- Course name in Norwegian
- Sykepleie til pasienter med akutt, kritisk og kronisk sykdom 1
- Study programme
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Bachelor's Programme in Nursing - Part Time
- Weight
- 15.0 ECTS
- Year of study
- 2025/2026
- Programme description
- Course history
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Introduction
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 present mental health work in a historical perspective
- can s discuss how psychosis, personality disorders, anxiety, mood disorder and drug addiction can influence the patients’ fundamental needs and self-understanding
- can describe mental health and psychosocial challenges among refugees and immigrants and how stigma, exclusion, discrimination, and racism can influence mental health and psychosocial health
- can describe strategies for mastery and concepts such as improvement processes, user participation, recovery, and empowerment
- can explain how framework factors such as current legislation and compulsory regulations can be of significance to the practice of nursing in mental health work
- can discuss the special needs of children and young people related to trauma, neglect, violence, abuse and drug and socio-economic problems
Skills
The student
- can apply key milieu therapeutic principles related to patients with mental disorders
- can apply knowledge about the main groups of psychotropic drugs and integrate knowledge from disease theory in assessing the effects and side effects of drugs
- can apply communication and interaction skills when encountering people with mental health issues and their next-of-kin and can establish, maintain, and terminate relationships
- can map symptoms of various mental and drug-related disorders and conditions and use relevant mapping tools in the practice of nursing
- is capable of continuously assessing situations that entail a risk for patients and/or staff and preventing unwanted incidents
- can assess what inhibits and promotes communication and how poor health and unmet care needs influence professional relations
Competence
The student is capable of
- reflecting on his/her own professional practice and power structures when encountering people with mental health issues and drug addictions and and receive guidance and feedback
- reflecting on existing procedures and methods, and taking the initiative to engage in dialogue about the implementation of new knowledge and new work methods
Recommended preliminary courses
- Gjennomført emne SYKD1410 Sykdom og helsesvikt, 13 stp.
- Bestått SYKD1310 Legemiddelhåndtering, 2 stp.
Required preliminary courses
Practical training: in Municipal health service/Specialist health service, Mental health (8 weeks), including self-study, simulation, digital learning resources, lectures and seminars.
The flipped classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course. Digital learning resources will be made available in advance.
Learning outcomes
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:
- participation in seminars
- simulation, relational skills and cooperation
- reflection assignment, individual assignment on ethics, power and legislation related to the student's own experience from practical training. Scope of 1000 words (+/- 10%).
Teaching and learning methods
Assessment in practice
The assessment takes its point of departure in given criteria based on learning outcomes for the course, assessment criteria, the continuous assessment, the suitability assessment and compulsory activities carried throughout the practical training. Students’ practical training can only be assessed if their attendance is sufficiently high (90%). For more information, see the general part of the programme description about the assessment of practical training.
If the student has failed the practical training, the whole practical training course must be retaken. This includes associated requirements.
Course requirements
Not relevant.
Assessment
Pass/fail.
Permitted exam materials and equipment
Contact lecturer approves grade after recommendation from practical training supervisor. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.
Grading scale
SYKKPRA50, SYKPRA50 and SKOMPPRA20 overlap 100 %.
Examiners
Kontaktlærer godkjenner etter innstilling fra praksisveileder. Endelig vedtak om Bestått-Ikke bestått fattes av universitetet.
Overlapping courses
SYKKPRA21x, SYKPPRA21x og SYKDPRA21x er fullt overlappende.