Daily Activities in Nursing (4cr)

Objectives (course unit)

The student
- has the basic knowledge of a patient’s needs related to rest, nutrition, elimination, cleanliness, exercise, interactions and sexuality and has the nursing skills to help in meeting these needs, also knows how to promote health in these areas;
- knows the principles of primary nursing care;
- knows the principles of rehabilitative nursing;
- knows the principles of ergonomics in nursing and knows how to utilise them in assisting the patient;
- knows the principles of hospice and palliative care;
- takes responsibility for his/her learning and actions during small-group learning activities and commits himself/herself to
goal oriented problem solving process in small-group education.

Content (course unit)

- Human basic needs: rest, exercise, nutrition, elimination, cleanliness, interactions and sexuality and health promotion in these areas
- Primary nursing care
- Ergonomic way of working in nursing
- Rehabilitative way of working as assisting the patient
- Principles of hospice care

Prerequisites (course unit)

none

Exam schedules

Exam: 15 November 2018
Retake 1: December 7-19 via exam- system
Retake 2: January 2019

Assessment methods and criteria

Nursing Care: Mark 0-5. Written exam. Participation in classes. Mandatory participation in orientation.
Small group work. Evaluated pass/fail. Small group work 100% presence, active participation and completed tasks.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Lectures, small group work, independent studies, COIL- assignment

Learning materials

Janice L. Hinkle, Kerry H. Cheever. Brunner & Suddarth's textbook of medical-surgical nursing.2018. 14th edition:Basic concepts in Nursing: Chapters Roles of the Nurse and Models of Nursing Care Delivery.;Critical Thinking,Ethical Decision making, and the Nursing Process: Chapter The Nursing Process;Health Education and Health Promotion: Chapters The Nursing Process in Patient Teaching and Health Promotion.From Chapter : Individual and Family considerations: Sub chapters: Loss and Grief, Death and Dying, and Chapter: Principles and practices of rehabilitation completely.
All the material provided by the teacher
All the material produced within the small group work.
Yoost& Crawford (2015) Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing : Active Learning for Collaborative Practice.(e-book)

Student workload

Requires 108 hours of student’s work. Lectures 26 hours, small group work 12 hours, independent work for 70 hours.

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Does not meet the criteria defined for mark 1

Assessment criteria - satisfactory (1-2) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Can define concepts of rehabilitative nursing and ergonomic way of working.
Knows the basics of patient’s needs in the areas of rest, nutrition, excretion, hygiene, moving about and transferring, relationships and sexuality and can name the nursing methods meeting the needs. Knows the normal variation in the observed parameters.
Knows the national nutrition recommendation’s fundamental principles and concepts.
Recognises the nutritional guidance needs of an adult patient.
Knows how to recognize the risk of malnutrition.
Can list the principles of hospice care.

Assessment criteria - good (3-4) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Knows the basics of patient’s needs in the areas of rest, nutrition, excretion, hygiene, moving about and transferring, relationships and sexuality and can name with rationales the nursing methods meeting the needs and can promote health within the domain. Can define concepts of rehabilitative nursing and ergonomic way of working and can implement those while assisting a patient.
Knows the national nutrition recommendation’s fundamental principles and concepts.
Recognises the nutritional guidance needs of an adult patient.
Can implement nursing care of a patient with special nutritional needs (malnutrition).
Can list the principles of hospice care and explain prerequisites for working with patients approaching death.

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

The student
Can combine theory base with nursing
Gives nutritional guidance based on rationales driven from nutritional science.
Can analyse, ponder and implement in professional context