8883.22 - Nursing care for people with somatic diseases II

8883.22

Nursing care for people with somatic diseases II

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For students to acquire competences in preventive, health promoting, supportive, compensatory and therapeutic nursing for people with physical disease. For students to train practical skills rooted in fundamental needs within specific areas of nursing practice.

Teaching is delivered in the form of both a theory component and a clinical practice component. The contents of the theory component is: • Nursing theory on self-care based on Dorothea E. Orem’s writings • Joyce Travelbee’s nursing theory on the human-to-human relationship • Nursing focused on pain, nausea, immobility, excretion and nutritional needs • Selected conditions: metabolic conditions, conditions of the digestive tract, urinary tract, cardiovascular and gynaecological conditions • Medication for selected conditions • Nursing in relation to: metabolic conditions, conditions of the digestive tract, urinary tract cardiovascular and gynaecological conditions • Pre, peri and postoperative nursing • Nutrition and nutritional requirements • Drafting care plans based on the nursing process The contents of the clinical component in the practice lab is: • Training skills in pre and post operative nursing emphasising observation, wound care, pain, nausea, fever and immobility • Training in applying hygiene principle skills when caring for cath a demeure and venflon • Training bladder scanning skills and taking urine samples • Training skills used when assisting patients with feeding and carrying out oral care • Reflection • Required study activity o Sterile technique o Placing catheters based on the most up-to-date knowledge • The contents of the clinical component at hospital wards is: • Getting to know the ward (type of ward, layout and procedures that characterise the ward. Meeting the supervisor and other staff etc.) • Participate in providing personal hygiene care applying the principles of prevention of infection Clinical teaching at hospital wards should be viewed as interwoven with clinical teaching in semester 3. Refer to the portfolio for semester 2 for a more detailed description of clinical teaching.

Teaching and learning is organised as alternating lectures, dialogue, cases and discussion of reading questions, group work, self-study and clinical teaching at approved teaching institutions.

Students who successfully complete the module can demonstrate ability to: • Explain Dorothea E. Orem’s theory on self-care and the systems and concepts associated with this theory • Describe key concepts in Joyce Travelbee’s theory on human-to-human relationship • Describe the conceptual framework Fundamentals of Care (FoC) • Explain pathophysiological changes in selected conditions of the digestive tract, urinary tract and cardiovascular system • Explain pathophysiological changes in metabolic conditions, blood conditions and gynaecological conditions • Explain selected surgeries • Explain pre and postoperative nursing provided to selected patients • Explain the physiological mechanisms underlying pain and nausea • Assess a patient’s need for nursing, draft nursing diagnosis and put forward proposals for preventive, supportive, compensatory and therapeutic nursing for a specific patient • Explain the nutritional composition of hospital food • Describe international and national nutrition policy • Calculate energy and protein requirements in relation to the patient’s nutritional requirements • Identify and analyse patients’ nutritional issues in relation to selected special situations • Explain considerations in relation to eating situations, oral care and secretion • Apply clinical methods to assess a patient’s state in relation to nausea, obstipation, pain, fever, immobility and nutrition • Explain the chemical absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (pharmacokinetics) of selected medications • Describe the different methods of administrating medication • Explain the effects and side effects of medication (pharmacodynamics) used to treat selected conditions • Use www.pro.medicin.dk • Describe the responsibility and competences of nurses in relation to handling and administrating medication • Organise own learning in cooperation with fellow students and teachers

The approval of the required study activity is a pre-requisite for admission to examination assessment. Written examination. Refer to the examination requirements.

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Tordis Tróndarson