Practical Training in Medical Nursing (8cr)

Objective

Students implement multi-professional nursing care for medical and infectious diseases patients while taking into consideration the patient's age, growth and development stage, the requirements of ethicality and the care and service setting. Students know how to assess the resources of patients and families from different cultural backgrounds and know how to support them in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Students plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions for patients and family members of all ages facing common medical conditions, infectious diseases, disability and end of life. Students are competent in documentation and oral reporting. They use evidence-based interventions developed for medical conditions, infectious diseases and palliative nursing to help, support and counsel patients and family members of all ages. Students are competent in common nursing procedures and diagnostic examinations used as part of chronically ill patients' total care. Students know how to safely plan, implement and evaluate drug and fluid care and blood transfusions for adult patients. Students know how to implement nutritional care. They know how to support and promote patients' and families' health and ability to function. Students are able to help and support patients and family members of all ages in palliative and end-of-life nursing situations. Students are able to counsel and support patients and families of all ages in self-care. They counsel patients before and after clinical examinations. Students observe asepsis and are able to explain why this is important in nursing care. Students evaluate their professional competence critically from the perspectives of strengths and development needs.

Content

Practical training in settings which allow students to practise nursing medical patients and infectious diseases patients or which allow practising palliative and end-of-life nursing. eDrug Care Certificate. Writing and presentation of an assignment. Competence test.

Qualifications

Workshops, simulation, drug calculations
Practical Training in Basics of Clinical Nursing 9 cr

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
Students
- do not adequately appreciate or use the knowledge base of client-centred clinical nursing
- are not adequately able to give reasons for their chosen actions in client-centred clinical nursing
-are not adequately able to apply to practice their knowledge of client-centred clinical nursing
-are not capable of adequate client-centred and safe clinical practice
-do not possess adequate decision-making skills for client-centred clinical nursing
-do not adequately take into consideration safety or ethical principles in client-centred clinical nursing
-are not prepared to develop client-centred clinical nursing

Materials

will be announced in the course implementation plan