SYKKPRA60B Nursing for Patients with Complex Health Challenges Course description

In this course, nursing of patients in the context of care and rehabilitation is a key area. The course covers the nursing of patients with complex health challenges on short-term or long-term stays in different institutions. Students will gain experience of communicating and interacting with patients and next-of-kin related to long-term health challenges. Mapping of loss of function, challenges related to key patient phenomena and cognitive deficits will be part of the course. Emphasis is also placed on attention to the patients’ background as a basis for nursing. Management, organisational competence, ethics and work on the nurse's pedagogical function are also included. You will complete 8 weeks of practical training in this course.

To start this course you must have passed:

• Passed the first year of study.
• SYKP/SYKP2100 Person Centered Care, 15 credits.
• SYKK/SYKPPRA21 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, 15 credits.
• SYKK/SYKPPRA30 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2, 10 credits.

or equivalent.*

* For year group 2022 at OsloMet, the equivalent is:

• Passed the first year of study.
• SYKK/SYKPPRA20 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 1, 20 credits.
• SYKP/SYKP1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits.
• SYKP/SYKK2000 Theory of Science and Research Methods, 5 credits.
• SYKK/SYKPPRA30 Nursing Patients with Acute, Critical and Chronic Diseases 2, 10 credits.

Utdanningen er samlingsbasert. Undervisningen omfatter en kombinasjon av forelesninger, seminarundervisning og ulike studentaktive læringsformer med både individuelt arbeid, gruppearbeid og fremlegg/presentasjoner.

Arbeids- og undervisningsformer fremgår av den enkelte emneplanen.

The work and teaching methods used vary between seminars, skills training, a clinical and technical module, lectures, digital learning resources, student cooperation and self-study.

Det avholdes eksamen i hvert emne, og det benyttes ulike vurderingsformer. Det framgår av emneplanene hvilken vurderingsform, vurderingsuttrykk, sensorordning og tilgjengelige hjelpemidler som benyttes for det enkelte emne.

Skikkethetsvurdering

Videreutdanningen er omfattet av Forskrift om skikkethetsvurdering i høyere utdanning.

Skikkethetsvurdering er en helhetsvurdering av studentens faglige og personlige forutsetninger for å kunne fungere som helse- eller sosialpersonell.

This course is based on the clinical work processes covered in ORI1000 and is the first of four courses in orthopaedic technology. Knowledge acquired in the courses in anatomy and biomechanics will be used. The focus is on users with lower limb amputations, especially at transtibial (below the knee) or transfemoral (above the knee) level. These two levels account for a high proportion of;prosthetic technology work. The course also provides an introduction to ankle and knee disarticulation, which is an amputation level that is rarer than the other two.

Prosthetists work with patients in all age groups and life situations. It is therefore important that they have good communication skills and basic skills in observing and talking to children and adolescents to understand their lives, and how work with children can be carried out in an interprofessional person-centred and family-centred manner. This topic is highlighted in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1100 The Same Child - Different Arenas, 1.5 credits.

The student must have been admitted to the study programme.

Grade scale A-F

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge and skills:

Knowledge

The student;

• can describe and explain factors that affect disease, health and quality of life in groups or the population as a whole
• can describe the epidemiological and demographical foundation for public health work
• can describe social inequality in relation to health, and is familiar with the national and global consequences of inequality
• can describe the purpose, organisation and coordination of health and social care services
• is familiar with relevant laws and regulations relating to the health and social care services
• can describe the relationship between work, education, social participation, inclusion and the experience of health
• can describe the goals for sustainable development and their significance for public health

Skills

The student can

• reflect on ethical challenges related to public health work that aims to change behaviours
• find, assess and refer to health promoting and preventive strategies, organisation and measures in light of the goals for sustainable development
• reflect on how and why the status of Sami as indigenous peoples affects the development of the health and social care services