SYKP1200 Microbiology and Infection Control Course description

This course introduces the students to the life of microorganisms, their virulence and how infection is transferred. Du skal studere smittekjeden og hvordan tiltak kan iverksettes for å bryte hvert ledd av kjeden for å forhindre smitte. Hygiene in relation to the environment surrounding the patients will also be studied, and also how basic infection control procedures can prevent contagion and infections. Students will familiarise themselves with relevant laws and regulations related to the duty to report and the use of force. The course also covers antibiotic resistance, infection prevention and patient safety.

Admission to the programme.

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 is capable of

• differentiating between different types of microorganisms
• differentiating between the structure and characteristics of different types of microorganisms
• describing how different microorganisms influence health and disease
• explaining basic infection control procedures in the health services
• describing the content of the Act Relating to the Control of Communicable Diseases and relevant regulations
• describing the consequences of overconsumption of antibiotics and preventive measures to avoid antibiotic resistance
• describing the infection control measures to be implemented when isolating patients

Skills

The student is capable of

• breaking the chain of infection and preventing the spread of unwanted microbes
• using knowledge of basic infection control procedures in the health services
• performing hand hygiene in accordance with the applicable guidelines

Competence

The student

• has a basic understanding of the nurse’s preventive function in infection control and hygiene in the health and care services

Self-study, lectures, digital learning resources, seminars, simulation and skills training

The flipped classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course. Digital learning resources will be made available in advance.

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

• oral presentation - each study group draws an issue in microbiology to be presented at a seminar
• group assignment - students will plan and describe how infection control procedures can be carried out in practice. Scope of 1,500 words (+/- 10%). Groups of 3-5 students.

Supervised individual written national exam

• 2 hours
• Multiple choice assignment

None.

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

Knowledge

The student has

• specialised insight into key technical web standards
• specialised knowledge about API design and exploration
• extensive knowledge about fundamental and general principles of interoperability
• extensive knowledge about different ways of securing interoperability between metadata formats
• specialised knowledge about data processing and reuse

Skills

The student

• is capable of working practically with data exchange and metadata conversion
• is capable of employing ontologies
• has expertise in ordering technological solutions in order to develop information based services for the future that support interoperability
• is capable of participating in and holding responsibility for working with interoperability between different information systems
• is capable of working practically with data sources and APIs with basic scripting skills

General competence

The student has the ability to

• analyse, assess and discuss the roll metadata plays within interoperability
• participate in metadata and interoperability projects

The course is organised as a weekly series of seminars. The students can attend the lectures on campus or follow them remotely online

The form of assessment is a semester paper. The semester paper can be written individually, in which case its scope shall be approx. 15 pages (35,000 characters including spaces), or it can be written in groups of two or three students, in which case it shall have a scope of approx. 20 pages (46,000 characters including spaces). Font and font size: Arial / Calibri 12pkt. Line spacing: 1.5.

If the semester paper is done as a group, everyone in the group must sit for a new / postponed exam if not passed.Candidates who do not receive a passing grade on the semester paper can resubmit the paper once.