SYKPPRA20M Sykepleie til pasienter med akutt, kritisk og kronisk sykdom 1 Emneplan

I dette emnet skal du lære om pasienter og pårørende i en akutt og kritisk kontekst, og hva som inngår i sykepleiernes funksjonsområder. Du skal lære å kommunisere og samhandle med pasienter og pårørende i stress- og krisesituasjoner. Videre blir du kjent med sentrale fenomener i sykepleie som håp, utrygghet, frykt, utmattelse, smerte og kvalme. Systematisk observasjon og vurdering, sykepleie ved somatiske sykdommer, pre- og post operativ sykepleie, kompetent legemiddeladministrasjon og helseveiledning inngår i emnet.

• 13 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKP1000 Foundations of Nursing 1, 13 ECTS.
• 2 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKP1200 Microbiology and Infection Control, 5 ECTS.
• SYKK1010, SYKP1010 and SYKD1010 are fully overlapping.

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 general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can describe the historical development of nursing and what characterises nursing as a profession
• can describe the human being’s fundamental needs and resources
• can describe the human being’s psychological development and needs
• can describe basic concepts in ethics in the health service
• can explain the duty of confidentiality and documentation
• can describe characteristics of communication and cooperation and how this is applied to nursing practice also towards people with different cultural backgrounds
• can explain basic infection control procedures in the health services
• can describe the content of the Act Relating to the Control of Communicable Diseases and relevant regulations
• is capable of describing steps in evidence-based practice (EBP)
• can explain the contents and what makes up assessment, action and decision-making processes (the nursing process)

Skills

The student

• can apply four central principles of health ethics
• has basic communication skills
• can participate actively in group cooperation and receive supervision and reflecting on his/her own role
• masters the principles of academic writing,
• can perform and justify relevant procedures related to the care of basic physiological needs, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation with the use of a defibrillatorcan
• can break the chain of infection and preventing the spread of unwanted microbes
• can use knowledge of basic infection control procedures in the health services

General competence

The student

• can exchange views on the foundations of nursing
• can reflect on the significance of own efforts in study groups and reflecting on challenges when group processes are used as learning methods
• has a basic understanding of the nurse’s preventive function in infection control and hygiene in the health and care services

Self-study, lectures, workshop, digital learning resources, group work, seminars with presentations, and 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:

• Individual assignment, scope of 1,500 words (+/- 10 %).
• Group assignment, 3-5 students, scope of 1,500 words (+/- 10 %).
• 80 % attendance of timetabled activity marked.
• Participation in workshop, in infection control.

Home exam in groups.

• Carried out in groups of 3-5 students.
• Three days.
• Scope: 2,500 words (+/- 10 %).
• Individual description of own contribution to the group is attached to the assignment, 350 words (+/- 10%).

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Pass-fail.

All answers are assessed by two examiners.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

SYKKPRA20M, SYKKPRA20K, SYKPPRA20M og SYKPPRA20K er 100 % overlappende.