Society and Organization
The course covers the nurse's professional and administrative leader function: change, ethics, leadership and organisational knowledge, laws, cross-disciplinary cooperation and interaction/user involvement.
This course also focuses on sociology, social anthropology, the professions, the hospital's and and patient's role, meeting multicultural patients, state and municipal knowhow, health politics, health economics, the development of the health service, specialisations, professionalisation, power, privatisation and prioritisation.
The course also covers the nurse's responsibility for elederly and chronically ill people. In addition the course covers the nurse's responsibility for teaching supervision, evaluation and dissemination of research results. Health service insurance is another important topic covered on this course.
On successful completion of the course the student should have the following learning outcomes:
- Have knowledge of the welfare state, health sector development, organisation and leadership, the nurse's role in the health sector and in society
- Have knowledge of the multicultural society, the professions and what it means to be anurse in a multicultural society
- Have knowledge of interaction between services and between nurses and patients/next-of-kin
- Be able to define factors leading to better health including the work environment
- Be able to account for and use concepts and models for knowledge reflecting on quality assurance, quality development and internal control
- Reflect, use and present knowledge and research
- Have insight into relevant subject and professional issues, laws and nursing services
- Have knowledge of elderly people and chronicly ill people with a variety of resources and nursing needs
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:
SYN112H - Society and Organization - 10 credits