Course syllabus for Somatic nursing, medicine - Clinical education 1c
Somatisk omvårdnad, medicin - verksamhetsförlagd utbildning 1c
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
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
Reflect on questions that concern the nursing profession in Sweden compared with the nursing profession in the native country by:
- account for genesis mechanisms, symptoms and treatment principles with a focus on organ function
- account for indications and complications at enteral and parental nutrition
- account to and carry out health care technical parts
- identify pain conditions and evaluate pain treatment
- be familiar with principles of handling of medical-technical apparatus
- apply and explain relationships for hygienic principles in the care
- analyse the patient's care needs through systematic observation - and evaluation forms with a focus on organ function
Content
The course consistis of clinical placement within a health care facility with which the Study Programme in Nursing at Karolinska Institutet has an agreement with. The content consists of operational modules in accordance with the learning objectives.
Teaching methods
The teaching is based on a problem-oriented and collaborative approach to learning in which the tasks provide opportunities for the student to take active
responsibility for their learning to train a scientific approach through active knowledge acquisition, problem-solving and critical reflection. In this course, the following working methods are used : literature studies and placement. During the clinical placement, reflection is included individually together with teacher/clinical lecturer. The working methods aim to both integrate the field of the education (nursing, medical scholarship, social- and behavioural science) and to integration of theoretical knowledge in clinic and clinical knowledge in theory.
The education consists of 40 hours per week, of which 32 hours are spent working at the unit in question. The remaining eight hours per week are intended to be used for independent study, such as literature searches and reading course literature.
Examination
Compulsory attendance applies to all the days in the clinical activities. The supervisor, together with the examiner, determines, how the student should make up for any absence. Assessment of the students' achievements and knowledge acquisition takes place continuously during the course.
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. Absence from a compulsory course element could mean that the student can not retake the element until the next time the course is offered.
The course is examined through individual assessment according to evaluation form.
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 a clinical placement is interrupted in this way the student is deemed to have failed that element and to have used up one clinical placement opportunity.
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
Recommended literature
- Medical-surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems, Lewis, Sharon Mantik; Bucher, Linda; Heitkemper, Margaret M.; Harding, Mariann, 10th edition. : St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, Inc, [2017] - 2 volumes ISBN: 9780323328524, LIBRIS-ID: 19795457,