Course syllabus for Nursing of the elderly - Clinical education 1

Omvårdnad av äldre - verksamhetsförlagd utbildning 1

Specific entry requirements

- Fluent spoken English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish.
- Passed 90 ECTS credits or 1,5 year of the Nursing programme.
- Basic computer knowledge (e.g. Microsoft Word and Internet research skills).

Outcomes

The goals of the course are that the student after completing the course should show knowledge to:
- care for the elderly person by using the nursing process all stages out of basic ethical principles and evidence based knowledge.
- various professional issues such as attitudes, ethics, gender, ethnicity, age, health economics and the Swedish health care system and compare that to the nurse profession in the home country.

Content

The course is comprised of clinical education within a geriatric clinic and /or nursing home that has an agreement with the nursing programme It comprises 32 study hours per week i. The remaining 8 hours per week are allocated for literature studies and Internet research.

Teaching methods

The clinical education is supervised by a nurse. The student is recommended to write a logbook with clinical reflections to be used as a base for discussion with the supervisor. The supervisor and/or the clinical lecturer from the nursing programme will evaluate the students' progress during their clinical education.

The examiner may, with immediate effect, interrupt a student's clinical placement (or equivalent) if the student demonstrates such serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills or attitude that patient safety or patient confidence in healthcare is at risk.

The examiner decides whether, and if so how, absence from compulsory course elements can be made up. Study results cannot be reported until the student has participated in compulsory course elements or compensated for any absence in accordance with instructions from the examiner.

Examination

Evaluation of clinical placement.

Attendance is compulsory for all days of clinical education. The supervisor and clinical lecturer together decide how the student should compensate for any absences.

If there are special grounds, or a need for adaptation for a student with a disability, the examiner may decide to deviate from the syllabus's regulations on the examination form, the number of examination opportunities, the possibility of supplementation or exemptions from the compulsory section/s of the
course etc. Content and learning outcomes as well as the level of expected skills, knowledge and abilities may not be changed, removed or reduced

Other directives

The course will be evaluated in accordance with the guidelines established by the Board of Education.

Literature and other teaching aids

• Eliopoulos, C, Gerontological nursing, 6. ed. : Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005 - xvii, 601 s. ISBN: 0-7817-4428-8, LIBRIS-ID: 9718168,
• Medical-surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems, Lewis, S; Heitkemper, M; Dirksen, S; O´Brien, P; Bucher, L, Vol. 2 : St Louis : Mosby Elsevier, 2007 - 1887 ISBN: 978-0-323-03688-7,