Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate is able to:

• Describe nursing’s historical, scientific and ethical foundations
• Explain basic concepts, phenomena and theories of nursing
• Explain the nurse’s mandate, responsibilities and functions
• Explain knowledge-based nursing in relation to failure of basic human needs
• Explain the principles of nursing care for elderly patients with functional and failing health in the context of fulfilling basic needs

Course Description

Nursing’s history and tradition in

• The development of nursing as a profession and science
• The modernization of healthcare - from a national and international perspective

Nursing’s scientific basis in

• Nursing and nursing science mandate
• Nursing science’s knowledge forms and knowledge areas
• Scientific theory and method
• Knowledge-based practice in nursing
• Basic concepts, phenomena and theories of nursing
• People’s basic needs from the perspectives of age, gender and culture
• Coping theories – patients’ resources and experience of health
• Nursing in cross-cultural perspective

Nursing’s ethical principles in

• Basic values ​​in nursing, ethical theories and professional ethics

The nurse’s responsibilities and functions in

• Nursing’s social mandate
• The nurse’s various functions

Patient knowledge – elderly patients in nursing homes

• Theories of aging
• Elderly patients’ basic needs - capacity and coping skills
• Patients’ life histories and subjective experiences
• Diseases and age-related changes in various organ systems
• Elderly patients in institutions - risk factors in the patient’s environment

Teaching and Learning Methods

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

Assessment Methods

Individual written examination under supervision - 5 hours. 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