8940.23 - Nursing elderly people and people with chronic healthcare conditions

8940.23

Nursing elderly people and people with chronic healthcare conditions

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For students to gain insight into and understand the physical, psychological, social and spiritual changes that occur as people age. For students to acquire knowledge about selected diseases and their consequences for the individual. For students to understand health promoting, preventative, as well as therapeutic, rehabilitating and palliative nursing for older people and people with chronic conditions. For students to acquire the competences to cooperate with residents in care homes/people in their own homes, next of kin, colleagues and other groups of practitioners.

The contents of the course is: • Geriatric nursing • Gerontology; from a physical, psychological and social and spiritual perspective • Holistic approach • Ageism and attitudes towards older people • Chronic conditions: dementia, cerebral apoplexy and neurodegenerative conditions • Screening tools: e.g. Bartel Index, CFS, network map • Medication for older people and polypharmacy • Introduction to rehabilitation and research into rehabilitation • Cross-disciplinary cooperation in relation to older people and people with chronic conditions • The responsibility and duties of different health practitioners • The coordinating role of nurses in the primary care sector • Theory about quality of life and the perception of quality of life as you age or have a chronic condition • Life story • Caring for the dying and death • Nursing theory on care and compassion, autonomy, weak paternalism and paternalism • The concept of power from the legal, theoretical and ethical perspective • Aids for older people and people with chronic conditions • Introduction to organisational theory and management • Clinical decision-making in nursing: professional judgement and the nursing process • The Department of Social Services (Almannaverkið) scheme for pe with chronic conditions • The organisation of municipal elder care and home care service • Health promoting, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitating and palliative nursing for older people and people with chronic conditions

The contents of the course is: • Geriatric nursing • Gerontology; from a physical, psychological and social and spiritual perspective • Holistic approach • Ageism and attitudes towards older people • Chronic conditions: dementia, cerebral apoplexy and neurodegenerative conditions • Screening tools: e.g. Bartel Index, CFS, network map • Medication for older people and polypharmacy • Introduction to rehabilitation and research into rehabilitation • Cross-disciplinary cooperation in relation to older people and people with chronic conditions • The responsibility and duties of different health practitioners • The coordinating role of nurses in the primary care sector • Theory about quality of life and the perception of quality of life as you age or have a chronic condition • Life story • Caring for the dying and death • Nursing theory on care and compassion, autonomy, weak paternalism and paternalism • The concept of power from the legal, theoretical and ethical perspective • Aids for older people and people with chronic conditions • Introduction to organisational theory and management • Clinical decision-making in nursing: professional judgement and the nursing process • The Department of Social Services (Almannaverkið) scheme for pe with chronic conditions • The organisation of municipal elder care and home care service • Health promoting, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitating and palliative nursing for older people and people with chronic conditions Teaching is arranged as alternating lectures, dialogue, group work and self-study.

Students who successfully complete the module can demonstrate the ability to: • Describe the area of work of nurses in the home-care service and in residential care • Describe how residential and home care services are organised in the Faroe Islands • Explain laws, executive orders and administrative systems that govern the health care and social service sectors. • Describe the characteristics of rehabilitation and their role in relation to nursing older people/people with chronic conditions • Describe the process of aging from a physical, psychological, social and spiritual perspective • Reflect on the concept ageism • Explain the pathophysiological changes in dementia, cerebral apoplexy and neurodegenerative conditions • Explain the experience of, reactions to and coping with aging and/or having a chronic condition • Apply the nursing process to identify needs, draw up care plans and document nursing for older people/people with chronic conditions • Analyse the need for nursing based on a case in relation to health promoting, preventive, as well as therapeutic, rehabilitating and palliative nursing for older people and people with chronic conditions • Explain nursing practice measures and considerations intended to enhance the quality of life of older people and people with chronic conditions • Explain which tasks different categories of practitioners have in relation to older people and people with chronic conditions • Explain the characteristics of mono and cross-disciplinary cooperation • Explain which considerations should be taken into account when administering medication to older people and people with chronic conditions • Analyse ethical dilemmas in nursing of older people and people with chronic conditions • Explain considerations in professional communication with individuals, who are affected by cognitive issues caused by dementia, apoplexy, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s • Reflect on the importance the life story can have for nursing people in residential care • Demonstrate responsibility for their own learning and the ability to collaborate with teachers and fellow students

The examination is divided into two components – one written assignment, which will form the basis for one oral examination. Each component accounts for 50% of the overall examination mark. Refer to the examination requirement.

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Sunrit Niklasdóttir