Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate can:

• Describe the historical development of formally organized nursing
• Discuss the nurse’s responsibilities and functions in the specialist health services
• Explain the scientific basis for nursing in the specialist health services
• Explain concepts, phenomena and theories relevant to nursing practice in the specialist health services
• Explain how basic human needs, self-care capacity and coping skills are affected and changed by failing health and disease
• Give an account of the patient’s and relatives’ experiences and reactions to loss of health and disease
• Discuss knowledge-based nursing in relation to various types of health impairment and disease, research and treatment

General competence

The candidate can:

• Apply ethical and legal knowledge in arguing for and against measures to take when confronted with ethical dilemmas in the specialist health services

Course Description

Nursing history and traditions II

• Historical development of formally organized nursing - organization and administration of nursing - institutions

Nursing’s scientific foundation II

• Scientific theory and method
• Theoretical approaches in nursing research
• Knowledge-based practice in nursing
• Concepts, theories, models and patient phenomena

Nursing’s ethical basis II

• Nursing identity - professional - personal - and social values
• Ethical reflection, reasoning and dilemmas in the specialist health services

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

Patient knowledge - acute - critically ill patients

• The patient’s basic needs, self-care capacity and coping ability in the contexts of failing health, illness and death
• Characteristics of somatic loss of health and illness and the patient’s need for nursing
• The patient’s and relatives’ experiences and reactions associated with acute - critical illness and death

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 - 1 week. 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