8923.24 - Clinical nursing for elderly people and people with chronic conditions II

8923.24

Clinical nursing for elderly people and people with chronic conditions II

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The student must have passed the Drug dosage calculation course

For students to develop skills and competences in providing nursing in the home care service. For students to understand health promoting, preventative, therapeutic, rehabilitating and palliative nursing in the home care service. For students to acquire the competences to cooperate with residents in their own homes, next of kin, colleagues and other groups of practitioners.

Clinical teaching takes place over 6 weeks. Students will provide nursing to people in their own homes and in residential care.

Clinical teaching is organised as collaborative study in the home care service. Collaborative study: that students take part in and perform nursing interventions together with a nurse. Students have the opportunity to observe, describe and analyse nursing questions and provide nursing care to people in their own homes.

Students who successfully complete the module can demonstrate the ability to: • Enter a home and value the individual, next of kin and their environment • Identify care needs, perform and assess nursing • Demonstrate skills in documenting nursing by applying the documentation tools in use at the clinical placement • Explain health promoting, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitating and palliative nursing for people in their own homes • Show closeness in the relationship with people in their own home • Communicate professionally with residents and next of kin • Argue professionally for the nursing care provided drawing on the most up-to-date knowledge • Reflect on and administer medication to people in their own home • Explain multidisciplinary cooperation around nursing for people in their own home • Cooperate within and across professional disciplines • Reflect on the nursing provided both in writing and orally • Demonstrate responsibility for their own learning and assess their own learning need in relation to their continuing programme of study

Attainment level assessment. At the end of the period, each student is assessed in relation to the learning outcomes for the clinical teaching period. This assessment is equivalent to an internal clinical examination

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Elective

Maria Súsanna Hammer Olsen