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:

• Research processes
• Professional development models in nursing
• Designing a professional development project plan
• The implementation of a professional development project in nursing
  

Skills

The candidate can:

• Apply relevant concepts, theories and perspectives as the basis for a professional development project in nursing
• Design a professional development project
• Seek out, evaluate and apply scientific knowledge in a professional development project
• Present and discuss their own and others’ professional development work
  

General competence

The candidate can:

• Complete a professional development project using scientific methods
• Apply the principles of research ethics in professional development work
• Integrate knowledge from various areas of nursing when discussing a nursing issue

Course Description

Research and Professional Development in Nursing

- The nurse’s role with respect to research and professional development

- The importance of nursing research and professional development with respect to the quality of health care

- Entrepreneurship in health care

The importance of science for general nursing knowledge

- Scientific knowledge in nursing

- Planning and implementation of a scientific project in the nursing profession

- Various methodological approaches

- Knowledge search, critical material and assessment of relevance and validity

- Theoretical perspectives in professional development work

Research Ethics for Professional Development Work in Nursing

Documentation – Teaching and Subject Didactics

- Content and structure

- Didactics - didactic relational theory

- Various types of presentation

- Peer response and review

Teaching and Learning Methods

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

4 weeks of clinical specialization studies related to the Bachelor’s thesis.

Assessment Methods

Bachelor’s thesis (written individually). 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