8933 vár - Clinical Nursing and Nursing Theory: Interpersonal Relations during Brief Encounters
Course information
- Title
- Clinical Nursing and Nursing Theory: Interpersonal Relations during Brief Encounters
- Course number
- 8933.24
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 10.50
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- Deildin fyri Heilsu- og Sjúkrarøktarvísindi
- Educations
- BSC in Nursing
- Prerequisites
- Language of instruction
- The course is taught in Faroese. Instructional materials are mainly in Danish, as well as in English and other Scandinavian languages. Lectures, group work, discussions etc. are in Faroese.
- Registration
- Students on the 7th semester of Bachelor of Science in Nursing are automatically enrolled.
- Beginning date
- Monday, February 3, 2025
- End date
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Academic content
- Purpose
- For students to acquire an understanding of the factors that may impact on the professional relationship between a nurse and a patient in a brief encounter.
- Learning outcomes
- Students who successfully complete the module can demonstrate ability to: · describe the nursing provided in the clinical placement setting · explain the patient’s situation and nursing need in the brief encounter · reflect on communication with the patient, next of kin and other practitioners based on professional communication theories · reflect on factors that impact on the professional relationship between nurses, patients and next of kin in the brief encounter · describe selected complementary and alternative treatment methods and describe how these methods work · describe responsibilities in relation to informing patients regarding complementary and alternative treatments · search for research findings in relation to a selected clinical research question · explain the research findings in a selected scientific paper · assess how the research findings can enhance the quality of clinical nursing · present an analysis of a clinical research question to fellow students and staff at the clinical placement · assess own learning needs against the learning outcomes
- Content
- Teaching and learning is organised as follows: · 2 weeks theory · 4 weeks clinical teaching and learning · 1 week exam assignment · Presentation of the assignment in the clinical placement setting (online) Contents of the theory component: · Nursing in a brief encounter · Professional relationships and professional communication · Practicing communication through role play · Persons with chronic conditions or multiple conditions · Clinical skills training in a skills Lab (required study activity) – Peer Learning · Alternative treatment and care · Time-Space Relations · Patientology: patients and next of kin · Family nursing Contents of the clinical component: · Clinical teaching will take place in clinical placement settings characterised by brief patient encounters, such as out-patient clinics · Students will observe and partly perform nursing with a focus on the relationship with patients in patient trajectories, which are characterised by brief encounters
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Theoretical teaching and learning is organised as alternating lectures, dialogue, skills training in skills lab, and self-study. Clinical teaching and learning is organised as observational study, which consist in the student together with a nurse observing and performing limited nursing care. Students have the opportunity to observe, describe and analyse nursing questions in practice.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Individual written assignment
- Examination (internal/external)
- Internal
- Grading scale
- Passed/Failed
- Exam date/dates
- The written clinical assignment is due for submission on 21 March 2025.
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Monday, February 3, 2025
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Sonja Nielsen
- Teachers
- Theresa Joensen Rønnebech, Súsanna Herdalur Tausen