Preparation for a career. Subject 9
In order to master the role of nurse, the nurse needs insight into the complexity and the constant changes with which the national health service is confronted. The goal is to give the students incomplete operational competence so that they can link subject-specific knowledge to improvement knowledge in order to develop services. Leadership of the nursing team, insight into interactions with other players in the clinical microsystem around the patient and insight into the organisation at various levels are important in this subject.
The student:
- Can practice nursing in keeping with requirements for professionally adequate nursing.
- Can plan, conduct and evaluate instruction and guidance of students and co-workers
- Has respect for users' knowledge, experience and choices
- Has developed an identity as a nurse and has an understanding of the nurse's mandate
- Has an understanding of the clinical microsystem around the patient and can administer nursing for a small group of patients
- Has insight into the role of the nurse in the organisation he/she enters into and key frameworks within which the organisation operates
- Could cooperate at all levels of the organisation, have insight into other professional groups' functions and competence and have operational competence in interdisciplinary and interdepartmental collaboration
- Has a knowledge of the administration, organisation and priorities in the health and social care sector at different administrative levels
- Has an understanding of current health policy challenges and the organisational challenges that these entail
- Has an understanding of the importance of making continuous efforts at improvement and can take part in quality improvement work
- Shows the capability of a critical and analytical attitude to the health service in general and the nursing service in particular
Completion of this subject requires a knowledge of all previous subjects in the programme of study.
Elective clinical practice for 6 weeks
This subject can be completed abroad in combination with subject 2: Bachelors thesis project
SK159 Clinical practice programmes of study. Passed/failed.
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