Basic Nursing

Professional nursing

Basic human needs.

Basic nursing skills.

The Nursing Process.

Nursing documentation.

The professional and scientific basis of nursing

An introduction to nursing theories.

The concept of health.

Illness and disease.

An introduction to the concept of quality of life.

Nursing history, tradition and professionals ethics

Development of nursing as a subject and profession: focus, content and function.

Views of human nature (holistic vs. biomedical view) and the consequences for nursing.

Values in nursing.

Professional secrecy.

Læringsutbytte - Kunnskap:

Have knowledge about the basic human needs and how nursing can compensate for inabilitys in these.

Have knowledge about the nursing process as a way of documentation

Have knowledge about the priciples of evidence-based practice

Have knowledge about key consepts such as healt, illness vs desease, quality of life

Have knowledge about Virginia Hendersons nursing theory

Have knowledge of how values and visions in humans will affect nursing

Have knowledge about and comply with legislation concerning professional secrecy.

Understand the focus, function and contents of nursing.

Have knowledge about the principles of academic writing

 

Læringsutbytte - Ferdigheter:

 

Can define, observe and evaluate basic human needs

Can exercise and justify basic nursing skills based on mans basic needs

Can use knowledge about how the nursing process can be applied in a patient situation

Can describe the principles for evidense-based nursing

Can use the principles of academic writing on the mandatory essays

Can use knowledge about and comply with legislation concerning professional secrecy.

Pedagogiske metoder:

Lectures, two written essays, basic nursing skills, simulation, multiple choise tests before practical nursing skills.  

Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:

70% participation in all lectures and other curricular activity is obligatory. Pass two written essays and multiple choise tests.