Course syllabus for Child and adolescents health care - Clinical education
Vård av barn och ungdom - verksamhetsförlagd utbildning
Essential data
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 be able to:
- display knowledge and skills in paediatric and adolescent nursing care, and identify the most common and most important symptoms, signs and diseases within the paediatric field.
- encounter children and their families in relation to the child's developmental needs and with respect for the child's autonomy and integrity
- reflect on various professional issues such as attitudes, ethics, gender, ethnicity, age, health economics and the health care system in Swedish nursing and compare that to the nurse profession in the home country.
Content
The course consists of clinical education in municipal and/or hospital based health care. It comprises 32 study hours per week in a hospital or primary health care centre that has an agreement with the nursing programme. 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 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.
The clinical training includes 40 hours/week of which 32 hours/week is located at the clinical placement. Day -, evening - and night shifts as well as weekends and holidays may occur. Students are not allowed to compress the clinical training.
Examination
Passed evaluation after 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.
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.
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
- Children's participation in the descision-making process during hospitalization: an observational study, Runeson, I; Hallström, I; Elander, H; Hermerén, G, Nursing Ethics, 9, 583-598, 2002
- Forsner, M; Jansson, L; Sörlie, V, The experience of being ill as narratated by hospitalized children aged 7-10 years with short-term illness: Journal of Child Health Care, 9, 152-164, 2005,
- Klaus, M.H; Klaus, P.H, Your amazing newborn, Cambridge : Perseus, 1999
- Lissauer, Tom4 edt; Clayden, Graham4 edt, Illustrated textbook of paediatrics, 3. ed. : Edinburgh ;a New York : Mosby Elsevier, 2007 - xii, 516 s. ISBN: 978-0-7234-3397-2, LIBRIS-ID: 10500297,