Learning outcome

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

The candidate has knowledge of:

• The nurse’s responsibilities and functions in the specialist health services
• The development of nursing from a historical perspective
• The scientific foundation of nursing in the specialist health services
• How basic human needs, self-care capacity and coping ability is affected and changed by failing health and illness
• How patients and their families experience health and illness

Skills

The candidate can:

• Give an account of, and apply, knowledge of basic needs, self-care and coping related to failing health
• Discuss evidence-based nursing in relation to various forms of health impairment and acute somatic illness, assessment and treatment in the specialist health services
• Acquire and present research-based knowledge that is relevant to nursing in the specialist health services
• Use recognized tools for assessing knowledge
• Apply tools in systematic ethical reflection
• Apply knowledge from the natural and social sciences in relation to nursing issues
  

General competence

The candidate has knowledge of:

• Relevant nursing and ethical issues in the specialist health services

Course Description

The Nurse’s Responsibilities and Functions in the Specialist Health Services

• Functions related to nursing practice in the specialist health services
• Interdisciplinary and inter-departmental cooperation

Nursing History and Traditions II

• Historical development of the nursing services
• Consequences for the nurse’s identity, role and functions
  

Nursing’s Scientific Foundation II

• Patient knowledge in the case of acute illness and failing health
• Theoretical perspectives of nursing the acutely ill (phenomena, concepts, theories and models)
• Clinical nursing related to situations and problems in the acutely ill
• Clinical nursing related to various acute conditions and patient groups in the specialist health services
• Theoretical approaches and research methods in nursing research
• Knowledge-based practices in nursing step 4

Nursing’s Ethical Foundation II

• Ethical issues, dilemmas, reflection and reasoning in the specialist health services

Teaching and Learning Methods

Subject literature studies, digital learning resources, resource lectures, seminars and work in learning groups.

Assessment Methods

Written individual take-home examination – 4 days. Assessed with a grade.

Course requirements:

Requirements are specified in the course plan.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean