Course Objectives
Main Course III aims to provide students with knowledge of the body’s structure, development and function considered in the context of a person’s lifespan. Students will establish an understanding of health and health care in a broad context, based on understanding of the body’s continuous interaction with its environment. The main course will broaden students’ knowledge, attitudes and skills regarding care of clients, their quality of life, self-reliance, and their ability to manage; important in this context is the development of the student’s teamwork and cooperation skills.
Course Description
Main Course III is divided into three course units. Course unit 6 deals with people, disability, and illness. Course unit 7 deals with nursing and care and medication management. Course unit 8 is an internship in health care.
COURSE UNIT 6: PEOPLE, DISABILITY AND ILLNESS
16 ECTS
Course unit 6 aims to provide students with knowledge of the body’s structure and function, and complex and complicated disabilities. Students will develop insight into how physical and mental illnesses arise, and how they are treated and prevented. They will also increase their understanding of how various skills and professional principles are used in the planning and execution of habilitative and rehabilitative care.
Content
The course unit includes the main elements of anatomy, physiology, microbiology, hygiene, pathology, and health psychology. In addition, students will receive an introduction to the central aspects of social medicine theory, nutritional theory, gerontology, and age-related dementia. The course unit will also introduce relevant aspects of habilitative and rehabilitative care, and provide students with knowledge of mental illness, crisis theory, crisis treatment, and preventative health work.
Teaching and learning methods: The course unit uses several pedagogical tools. A high degree of initiative is expected of students throughout the course unit. Learning methods include individual study, group work, individual written work, and skills training.
Assessment: Course unit 6 requires two assignments in the assessment portfolio.
Course unit code: 060HEMN3 6-1
Assessment assignment 6-1: Group project in anatomy, physiology, and pathology
The assessment assignment is based on the subject areas anatomy, physiology, and pathology, which form starting points for analysis, evaluations, and explanations of how disease manifests itself in individual patients/clients. Group assignment. 3500 words. Letter grade which comprises 50% of the final grade in Main Course III.
Course unit code: 060HEMN3 6-2
Assessment assignment 6-2: Examination in anatomy, physiology, and pathology
Four-hour individual examination with invigilation in anatomy, physiology, and pathology. Pass/fail.
COURSE UNIT 7: NURSING AND CARE - MEDICATION MANAGEMENT
13 ECTS
The aim of course unit 7 is to provide students with basic skills in nursing and care which will qualify them to care for the sick and disabled. In addition, the course unit will provide students with knowledge concerning the legal and professional responsibilities of social educators concerning the field of pharmacology and medication management in connection with the administration of prescribed medicine to people in care.
The content of the course unit concerns the care of the sick and disabled, care during the various phases of a client’s life and preventive/health promoting care. In addition to the necessary knowledge and skills in first aid and the observance of hygienic principles, the course unit will provide students with insight into mental illness and professional knowledge regarding crises and crisis management. The students will be given the opportunity to further develop their knowledge concerning the framework conditions for the practice of health care considered in a broad sense, including the ethical challenges of relational and interactive competency regarding health care in various arenas. The course unit will provide students with basic knowledge of medication theory, medication administration and medication calculations.
Teaching and learning methods: The course unit uses various pedagogical tools. There is an emphasis on practical training in procedures in the field of nursing and care and basic training in medication management. The course unit includes, self-study, lectures, group work and individual written reflective commentaries in combination with training of skills in the practice department. Students are expected to show considerable initiative in the training of skills.
Assessment: Course unit 7 requires two assignments in the assessment portfolio:
Course unit code: 060HEMN3 7-1
Assessment assignment 7-1: Skills test in nursing and care procedures.
Individual skills test. Pass/fail.
Course unit code: 060HEMN3 7-2
Assessment assignment 7-2: Examination in pharmacology and medication management
4-hour individual examination with invigilation. Pass/fail. Answers must be 100% correct in order to achieve a passing grade in medication management.
060PRA2 COURSE UNIT 8: INTERNSHIP IN HEALTH CARE
The aim of course unit 8 is to ensure that students receive training in using and further developing theoretical and practical knowledge in an internship in the field of health care. Students will develop their ability to observe, analyse and meet challenges and needs by participating and contributing in a professional environment. Students will be able to further develop their awareness of values, attitudes and professional ethics which form part of the social educator’s professional identity.
The content of the internship in health care are aims at the care of the sick and functionally disabled in the various phases of life in different care and nursing areas. In addition, the internship may focus on preventive and promotive health work.
Teaching and learning methods: Internship in health care is supervised with 1-hour individual supervision per student per week from the internship. In addition, the students are followed up in a
reflection group by the university college’s contact-teacher.
Assessment: Documentation requirement and conditions for the successful completion of the internship is described in the curriculum under item 8.
Course unit 8 requires one assignment in the assessment portfolio:
Course unit code:060HEMN3 8-1
Assessment assignment 8-1: Reflective health care
The assessment portfolio includes written work based on the student’s internship. Individual assignment. (4000 words). Letter grade which counts for 50% of the course grade in