HEALTH, DISABILITY AND WELFARE 060-072

Course Objectives

The aims of major course unit 2 are taken from the goals of the General Curriculum.

When students have completed major course unit 2 they will be able to:

• Demonstrate a comprehensive view of man and respect for the integrity and rights of the individual.
• Communicate and act ethically together with users, their families, and their local community.
• Meet the users with empathy and respect based on the principle of equal human worth regardless of age, gender, culture, beliefs and perception of reality.
• Attend to users’ interests in cross-professional cooperation.

• Identify interests, resources and limits in cooperation with users, and plan and execute practical, methodical milieu work, habilitation and rehabilitation work that will ensure life quality and the highest level of mastering skills.

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of various preventative and health promoting measures.
• Understand the consequences of various functional difficulties, the most common somatic and mental illnesses.
• Perform safe medication management.
• Provide supervision, instruction and basic nursing and care in accordance with the needs and wishes of people.
• Use methods for the change of framework conditions to the best advantage of users and groups of users.
• Supervise users and their families and take on the responsibility for the supervision of colleagues.
• Document, quality assure and evaluate one’s own work.

Course Description

COURSE UNIT 5: PRACTICAL TRAINING STUDIES: MILIEU WORK AND HABILITATION

16 ECTS

When students have completed course unit 5 they will be able to:

• Reflect on ethical problems, react to ethical dilemmas and identify ethical value conflicts.
• Display an understanding of the importance of developing personal qualities which will enhance their professional competence.
• Display an understanding of the rights of their clients.
• Plan, execute, evaluate and document their own work.
• Practice the supervision of clients and relatives.
• Demonstrate an understanding and ability to promote learning, satisfaction and positive experiences.
• Base their practical training on a detailed understanding of the legal system and agreements.

Teaching and learning methods: Self-study, group work, practical training, written and oral presentations and supervision. During the practical training studies students will receive 1 hour of supervision for each week of the practice period, and they will be supervised individually and in reflection groups by the university college’s contact teacher.

Assessment methods: Course Unit 5 contains one assessment assignment.

Course Unit code: 060-072 5-1

Assessment assignment 5-1: Practical training assignment in milieu work and habilitation.

The assessment assignment will be based on the practical training studies in milieu work and habilitation.

Individual written paper. 3000 words. The grade assigned will constitute 40% of the final grade for the major course unit.

Course code: 060-07P1 – Practical training studies

COURSE UNIT 6: FOUNDATION KNOWLEDGE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

14 ECTS

When students have completed course unit 6 they will:

• Have an understanding of the structure and functions of the human body.
• Be familiar with complex and extensive functional disabilities in a life-cycle perspective.
• Show insight into how physical and mental illnesses develop, are treated and prevented, on both an individual and a social basis.
• Have knowledge and understanding of crises and crisis management.
• Gain understanding of how professional principles are applied in planning, executing and documentation of habilitation and rehabilitation initiatives.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional health work as a vital aspect of the social educator’s skills.
• Have a detailed understanding of the legal basis of health-oriented methodical work.

The content of the course unit includes anatomy, physiology, and microbiology, hygiene, disease theory and health-psychology. In addition, there will be an introduction to central topics from socio-medical thought, nutrition theory, geriatric and age dementia. The course unit will also continue to explore relevant aspects of habilitation and rehabilitation initiatives, and give students an understanding of mental illnesses, crisis theory, crisis management and preventative health work. The principle aspects of health-care law will be reviewed

Teaching and learning methods: Self-study, lectures, work in groups, individual written papers and skill-improvement training.

Assessment methods: Course unit 6 contains two assessment assignments:

Course unit code: 060-072 6-1

Assessment assignment 6-1: Written group assignment in anatomy, physiology and disease theory

The assessment assignment is based upon an understanding of the subjects of anatomy, physiology and disease theory, which form a platform for analyses, evaluations and arguments concerning how illness is manifested in the individual patient/client. Group solution. 5000 words. Letter grade which will form 50 % of the total grade in major course unit III.

Course unit code: 060-072 6-2

Assessment assignment 6-2: Examination in anatomy, physiology and disease theory.

4-hour individual invigilated examination in anatomy, physiology and disease theory. Pass/fail.

COURSE UNIT 7: MILIEU WORK, NURSING AND CARE. MEDICATION MANAGEMENT

14 ECTS

When students have completed course unit 7 they will:

• Have gained basic knowledge and skills in nursing and care that will qualify them to care for the sick and disabled.
• Have acquired the ability to view nursing and care from the viewpoint of both a health worker and a social educator.
• Gained basic knowledge of, and skills in, first aid.
• Have gained the necessary qualifications which will enable them to take on the legal and professional responsibility that is given to social educators in the areas of pharmacology and medication management.

The content of the course unit is aimed at methodical work with a focus on the nursing and care of the sick and disabled of all ages, various phases of a client’s life, preventative/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 illnesses and professional knowledge regarding crises and crisis management. Students will be given an 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: Training in procedures, self-study, individual initiative in the learning of skills and individual written reflections, 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. The course unit requires a minimum of 75% attendance in teaching in connection with the practice department, which must documented by filling out a form.

Assessment methods: Course unit 7 includes two assessment assignments:

Course unit code: 060-072 7-1

Assessment assignment 7-1: Skills test in nursing and care procedures

Individual skills test. Pass/fail.

Course unit code: 060-072 7-2

Assessment assignment 7-2: Examination in pharmacology and medication calculation

4-hour individual examination with invigilation. Pass/fail.

Answers must be 100% correct in order to achieve a passing grade in medication management. Examination aids: Norwegian Common Directory of Medicines (Felleskatalogen) and calculator.

COURSE UNIT 8: PRACTICAL TRAINING: MILIEU WORK AND HEALTH

16 ECTS

When students have completed course unit 7 they will:

• Have gained skills in basic nursing and care work.
• Be able to carry out the social educator’s professional health tasks and responsibilities.
• Be able to supervise users and their families and take on the responsibility of supervising colleagues.
• Be able to identify and reflect upon ethical questions, have an action-plan for ethical problems, and be able to identify values’ conflicts.
• Be able to use and further develop theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of practical training with regard to health and milieu work.
• Be able to display how various skills and professional principles may be used in planning, execution, evaluation and documentation of habilitation and rehabilitation work.
• Be able to use methods for the change of framework conditions to the best advantage of users and groups of users.
• Be able to display the ability to observe, analyse and meet challenges and needs by participating and contributing in a professional context.
• Be able to display an awareness of values, attitudes and professional ethics which make up the social educator’s professional identity.
• Be able to document, evaluate and control the quality of one’s own work.

The content of the practical training studies in health and milieu work is aimed at the nursing of sick and functionally disabled in the various phases of a user’s life in various nursing and care contexts. In addition, the period of practical training may focus on preventative and health promoting care.

Teaching and learning methods: The practical training period challenges the students to display a large degree of independence in methodical work. The practical training is supervised with one-hour individual supervision per student per week. In addition there will be reflection groups and the university college will follow up the student.

Assessment methods: The documentation requirements and conditions for completing the period of practical training are described in the curriculum (item 8).

Course unit 8 includes one assessment assignment:

Course unit code: 060-072 8-1

Assessment assignment 8-1: Practical training assignment in health and milieu work.

The assessment assignment is based on the individual student’s period of practical training (individual assignment 4000 words).

The letter grade counts for 40% of the grade for major course unit II.

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