SYKPPRA10 Foundations of Nursing 2 Course description

In this course, students will further develop their knowledge of people’s fundamental needs and resources. Reactions, experiences and signs of health deficits are key aspects of the course. Students must develop skills in observing and assess patients’ fundamental needs and resources in clinical practice. Students will also gain experience of communicating with patients and their next-of-kin.

In addition, the students will participate in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1100 ‘One child - different arenas’, scope corresponding to 1.5 credits in the beginning of January. Relevant topics include the welfare state as a framework for girls’ and boys’ development and learning, growing up in a society characterised by cultural and social complexity, children and young people's everyday lives and social participation, the rights of children and adolescents, and explorative conversations with and observations of children and young people. The learning outcomes expected after completion of INTER1100 are marked with *. https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interact

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

• describing a normal development from child to adult
• explaining normal ageing processes
• describing how people's needs change with age and in connection with health deficits
• describing people's reactions in the event of crises and loss
• describing how to address fundamental needs and dignity in patients with extensive needs
• describing conditions that may affect the patient's self-care resources and show fundamental needs are met
• familiarising him/herself with patient records and how to keep records as a nurse
• understanding childhood and the process of growing up in a society characterised by social and cultural diversity*

Skills

The student is capable of

• assessing deficit in patients’ own care resources and suggesting appropriate measures to relieve complaints and compensate for personal care deficits
• implement and justify person-centred nursing to take care of the fundamental physiological and psychosocial needs and resources and can applying and explaining hygiene principles
• documenting, under supervision, nursing in the unit’s documentation system
• communicating with patients and next-of-kin about their experiences
• reflecting on ethical difficulty situations by applying the SME model
• describing symptoms and signs that death is imminent and reflecting on death as a phenomenon
• cooperate with students from other programmes of professional study about relevant challenges in the everyday lives of children and adolescents
• discuss and reflect on their own future professional role in interprofessional cooperation with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians

Competence

The student

• is capable of integrating knowledge from relevant subjects when discussing the nursing discipline, based on the steps in evidence-based practice (EBP)
• is capable of relating to patients, next-of-kin and colleagues in accordance with professional and ethical principles for nurses
• is capable of understanding what it means to be in need of help and dependent on others
• is capable of reflecting on power and dependency in the relationship between nurse and patient
• is capable of reflecting on his/her own communication and behaviour when dealing with patients, staff and fellow students
• has an emerging understanding of interprofessional cooperation with children, young people and their families*

Practical training: in the municipal health service (six weeks), primarily nursing homes and simulation and skills training (4 weeks). Lectures and seminars with the contact lecturer where relevant topics from the learning outcomes are elucidated. Inspirational practical training belongs to this course even the implementation itself takes place in the autumn semester.

Two seminar days, digital learning resources and conversation and observation assignments related to interprofessional group work and self-study are part of INTER1100 ‘One child - different arenas’.

Part 1 Assessment of practical training

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.

Part 2 Supervised individual written exam

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take part 2 of exam:

• participation om SF-unit, four weeks, compulsory attendance of 90 %
• Inspirational practical training, one-week, compulsory attendance of 90 % of practical training. Focusing on the nurse’s role and responsibilities. Supervised preferably by third year students. (take place in the autumn semester)
• INTER1100, submitted individual log. Scope: 500 words (+/- 10%). In order to write the log, the student must first attend a seminar over two days

Combined assessment and exam

Part 1 Assessment of practical training.

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.

Part 2 Supervised individual written exam

• 4 hours

Part 1 and part 2 can be taken independently of each other. The student must have obtained a pass grade on both parts in order to pass the course as a whole and earn the credits.

Part 2 One (1) A4 sheet of paper with the student’s own notes on both sides. The notes can be written by hand or on a computer, but must not include copies/photos from books/literature.

Part 1 Pass/fail. Part 2 Grade scale A-F.

Grade scale stated on diploma.

Part 1 Contact lecturer approves the exam after recommendation from the practical training supervisor. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.

Part 2 Two examiners assess the exam papers. At least 10 % of the exam papers will be assessed by an external examiner. The external examiner’s assessment shall benefit all students.

SYKKPRA10 and SYKPPRA10 overlap 100 %.