Nursing, Care and Medical Treatment
- Pharmacology
- Sicknesses
- Age-related debiliation
- The nurse's responsibility and function in the nursing home
- The legal regulations for the health service and nursing activity.
- The patient's and the nurse's judicial foundation related to pateints' rights
- The requirement of professional quality, caring help and the vow of confidentality
On successful completion of the course the student should have the following learning outcomes:
about knowledge concerning:
- The legal framework and laws related to the practice of nursing
- Judicial method and judicial safety
- Normal aging
- Various illnesses, reasons and explanation
- Pharmacology - effects and side-effects of medicine
- Nursing related to various age debilitation
- Nursing related to various illnesses
- Patients' rehabilitation rights
- Health-bringing and preventive nursing in nursing homes
Competence
- Be acquainted with the nurse's tasks and fuction in district nursing and nursing homes
- Be acquainted with how district nursing and nursing homes are organised
- Understand the importance of user involvement
- Undertand the imporatnce of cooperation with patients and family/relatives
Due to the Covid-19 epedemic, a number of assessments and exams at Nord University has been changed.
Changes are made in accordance with the Temporary Regulations on Supplements to Regulation 31/01/2019 no. 63: Concerning Studies and Examinations at Nord University - Extraordinary Measures as a Result of the Coronavirus Epidemic- according to §2 of the Corona Epidemic, Assessment Methods, Sections 1-3
To accommodate this, the form of assessment will be changed from Written School examination to Take -home Examination on this course in the spring of 2020
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
SYN104H - Nursing, Care and Medical Treatment - 8 credits