General admission requirements or prior experiential learning.
The student will develop an understanding of nursing’s historical, scientific and ethical foundations.
Course unit 1A: Nursing’s History and Tradition
Development of nursing as a profession and science.
Course 1B: Nursing’s Scientific Foundation
Nursing science’s mandate
Knowledge and skills in nursing
Important areas in the basic knowledge of nursing
Clarification of phenomena, concepts, theories and models in nursing
Course unit 1C: Ethics I
Basic values in nursing
Views of human life
Basic ethics
Professional ethics
Classroom teaching, group work, work with programme assignments individually and in groups.
050E01-1 001
Course assignment 1: Nursing’s Professional and Scientific Foundation
Individual, written assignment which focuses on the principal concepts used in nursing.
The assignment will be assessed on a pass/fail basis.
050E01-1 002
Course assignment 2: Nursing’s ethical foundation
Group written assignment, which focuses on basic values, basic ethics and professional ethics in nursing.
The assignment will be assessed on a pass/fail basis.
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