The main focus of the second year is on how to put theory into practice. The student will recognise the disciplines from the first year, but they will be on a more advanced level. Both the autumn and the spring semester is dedicated to placement, 10 weeks each: health care work and work with humans suffering from intellectual diabilities.
Law
- regulations within health and social services
Psychology
- Intellectual disability and psychiatric diseases
Health Issues
- medicine
- geriatric diseases and senility
- health and caring, theoretically and practical
Social Education
- empowerment
- skills of systematic work and planning health and caring
- professional observation
- analyze and developing skills among disabled persons
- activities of daily living (ADL)
- sports and training for disabled persons
Placement
Both the autumn and the spring semester is dedicated to placement, 10 weeks each: health care work and work with humans suffering from intellectual diabilities.
Lectures, seminar, groupwork, role-play, practical training, oral training, essay writing, work placement and individual study.
PORTFOLIO:
- 1 groupwork assignment (spring)
- 1 individual assignment from the work placement period (autumn)
- 1 individual assignment from the work placement period (spring)
There is two periods of placement, 10 weeks each: health care work in the autumn semester and work with humans suffering from intellectual diabilities in the spring.
Each period contents of seminar (preparation for the training), 10 week practical training in health or social services and summing-up seminar after the placement.
Participation
Health Issues:
- medicine
- health and caring, theoretically and practical
Social education:
- professional observation
- ethics
- skills of systematic work and planning health and caring
- sports and training for disabled persons
- communication
Law:
- health and social acts regulating the services
Periods of placement
Test in medicine
VE520 - 2nd year – 60 credits
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VE520 001 Portfolio assessment (2 essays) - 50%.
- HSF choose one among the three assignment in the portfolio.
- Student choose one among the two remaining assignments in the portfolio
- VE520 002 Oral exam - 50%
Ref. Norwegian curriculum ("pensum").