8954 heyst - Health promotion and preventive nursing in society
Course information
- Title
- Health promotion and preventive nursing in society
- Course number
- 8954.24
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 10.00
- 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 fifth semester of Bachelor of Science in Nursing are automatically enrolled.
- Beginning date
- Monday, August 19, 2024
- End date
- Friday, September 27, 2024
Academic content
- Purpose
- For students to acquire understanding of the significance of health promoting and preventive nursing for public health.
- Learning outcomes
- Students who successfully complete the module can demonstrate ability to: · Explain concepts and theory in public health science · Describe the impact of social inequality on health · Explain significant risk factors that can cause disease · Explain factors that impact on lifestyle changes · Describe risk factors in relation to drug, alcohol and medication abuse · Explain significant tools in health pedagogy · Describe consideration in relation to communicating with non-professionals · Describe health policy based on health policy plans · Describe national and international measures in relation to health promotion and prevention · Discuss nurses’ competences and skills in relation to health promotion and prevention · Explain the impact of working environment on health · Describe environmental impacts on health · Describe the most common qualitative research methods in health research · Describe significant concepts in statistics and epidemiology · Describe the concept evidence in health disciplines · Analyse factors and measures that promote and preserve health and prevent disease
- Content
- Contents of the theory component: · Nursing competences and skills in relation to public health · The concepts of illness and health · Health promotion and prevention, lifestyle, mode of life, social network and social inequality. · Health competence · Health pedagogy · Empowerment · Capacity to act · Resilience · Ethics in health promotion and prevention · Stress and health · Physical and psychological working environment · Environmental impacts on health · Health policy · National and international measures and plans · Communication · Basic concepts in epidemiology and statistics · Quantitative research methods and their characteristics · Discussing quantitative scientific articles · Evidence in health disciplines Contents of the clinical component: · Observing the health promotion and prevention role of nurses in society.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Teaching and learning is organised as alternating lectures, dialogue, group work and self-study.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- The examination is a written assignment.
- Examination (internal/external)
- Internal
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The written home exam is on the 3rd of October, 2024
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Monday, August 19, 2024
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Sonja Nielsen
- Teachers
- Elsa Joan Durhuus Johannesen, Marja Lund Gjógvará