Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate can:

• Develop educational and counselling programs for patients and their families
• Discuss the relationship between communication, health and illness in a multicultural context
• Explain the role of the patient in institutions
• Explain how specialist health services are organized
• Explain the legal framework for the specialist health services

General competence

The candidate can:

• Consider how economic, social policy and legal frameworks affect nursing practice in hospitals
• Explain patient care and the interaction between the specialist and municipal health services

Course Description

• Theories of learning, teaching and supervision and the nurse’s role in teaching and mentoring
• Cultural perspectives on health and illness
• Communication across languages
• Institutional sociology
• Organization of the specialist health services
• Legal framework for the specialist health services
• Relationship between the framework and the practice of nursing in the specialist health services
• The Coordination Reform
• The course of the patient’s care
• Patient safety

Teaching and Learning Methods

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

Assessment Methods

Written take-home group assignment - 1 week. Assessed with a grade.

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