The Discipline of Nursing and the Foundation of the Nursing Profession: Practice 2nd Year 050-0-2

Course Description

The aim is that the student should engage in training to improve their ability to practice basic nursing and implement life-saving measures for acute, critically and chronically ill patients in the specialist health service.

The aim is that the student will:

• Develop their skills in observing and evaluating patients’ basic needs for nursing, based on the patient’s health condition, their perception of their own illness and their ability to cope with their life situations.
• Develop their ability to plan, implement, evaluate and document the nursing of acute, critically and chronically ill patients in all age groups.
• Practice the following aspects of nursing: preventative and health-promoting measures, treatment, alleviation of suffering, rehabilitation, instructive and administrative duties, carried out in light of theoretical, ethical and practical knowledge.
• Gain insight into questions concerning life/death and the practice nursing of dying patients and their relatives.
• Develop insight into circumstances that require specialised observation and treatment.
• Mediate professional evaluations and decisions to patients, relatives and other health personnel.
• Develop the ability to communicate appropriately with patients, relatives and other health personnel.
• Acquire pedagogical knowledge in order to be able to evaluate the need for as well as implement the mediation of information, supervision and instruction.
• Develop the ability to show care and exhibit the appropriate and professional behaviour towards patients and relatives.
• Develop the ability to observe and reflect in relation to the patient and in interaction with the environment and society.
• Develop the ability to observe and reflect with regard to what nursing as a profession involves, and how this is reflected in collaboration in a hospital.

Course unit 2 - 2 Nursing Practice Studies

Specialist health service:

Medical and surgical department

Alternating 10 + 10 weeks

Final observation and practice studies in day-surgical, operations and observation ward, as well as polyclinic activities are included in the evaluation.

Assessment:

Main course: 050-0-2 000 The Discipline of Nursing and the Foundation of the Nursing Profession: Practice 2nd Year 27 ECTS

Course unit: 050-0-2 ST1 Course Assignment Related to Practice Studies

The course assignment is assessed as pass/fail. Students must receive a passing mark in the course assignment before the surgical and medical practice can be awarded a passing mark.

Course unit: 050-0-2 KIR Surgical Practice with Observation Practice Intensive Care/Anaesthesia Ward 13.5 ECTS

This supervised practice period will be assessed as pass/fail.

Course unit: 050-0-2 MED Medical Practice with Observation Practice in polyclinic 13.5 ECTS

Course unit: 050-0-2 UTV Practice Studies 2nd Year Abroad

Supervised practice period which will be assessed as pass/fail.

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