Home nursing and advanced home nursing
15 ECTS credits
The course integrates nursing (5 ECTS cr) and medical science (10 ECTS cr).
Instruction is in the form of group work, lectures, field studies, clinical placement (4 weeks), study assignments and seminars. Attendance at the clinical placement is mandatory, and students' ability to work independently is emphasised. All instruction pays attention to the scientific basis and evidence-based knowledge of the field. Students study on their own, in groups and in on-campus meetings. The course is partly net-based and different information and communication techniques are used.
Students acquire specialised knowledge of the role and responsibility of the public health nurse in the interprofessional team for habilitation and rehabilitation of persons of all ages with disabilities. Gerontology, geriatrics and geriatric psychiatry are studied on the basis of current evidence. Person-centred nursing and the public health nurse's work in advanced home nursing are studied. The studies address the planning of the nursing process of patients in need of advanced home nursing, for example, complex medical conditions and palliative care, with regard to cultural background and gender. The areas of nutrition and pain are analysed. Emphasis is placed on the importance of including next of kin in the care planning. The public health nurse's specific knowledge and responsibility in intra and interprofessional teams are studied in terms of the public health nurse's expertise, which includes giving an account of and implementing current ordinances, regulations and guidelines pertaining to home nursing regarding, for example, delegation and hygiene issues. The medical technology in advanced home nursing is studied in relation to guidelines and environmental and working environment aspects. During the clinical placement period, students develop their professional approach in terms of their developmental function for patient safty and high quality nursing.
Students also reflect on quality and patient safety measures and study this area on the basis of what measures can mean in primary health care from a patient and next of kin perspective. Further, different questionnaires/instruments are studied critically and in terms of how they can affect quality and improvement efforts.
Instruction is in the form of group work, lectures, field studies, clinical placement (4 weeks), study assignments and seminars. Attendance at the clinical placement is mandatory, and students' ability to work independently is emphasised. All instruction pays attention to the scientific basis and evidence-based knowledge of the field. Students study on their own, in groups and in on-campus meetings. The course is partly net-based and different information and communication techniques are used.
Students acquire specialised knowledge of the role and responsibility of the public health nurse in the interprofessional team for habilitation and rehabilitation of persons of all ages with disabilities. Gerontology, geriatrics and geriatric psychiatry are studied on the basis of current evidence. Person-centred nursing and the public health nurse's work in advanced home nursing are studied. The studies address the planning of the nursing process of patients in need of advanced home nursing, for example, complex medical conditions and palliative care, with regard to cultural background and gender. The areas of nutrition and pain are analysed. Emphasis is placed on the importance of including next of kin in the care planning. The public health nurse's specific knowledge and responsibility in intra and interprofessional teams are studied in terms of the public health nurse's expertise, which includes giving an account of and implementing current ordinances, regulations and guidelines pertaining to home nursing regarding, for example, delegation and hygiene issues. The medical technology in advanced home nursing is studied in relation to guidelines and environmental and working environment aspects. During the clinical placement period, students develop their professional approach in terms of their developmental function for patient safty and high quality nursing.
Students also reflect on quality and patient safety measures and study this area on the basis of what measures can mean in primary health care from a patient and next of kin perspective. Further, different questionnaires/instruments are studied critically and in terms of how they can affect quality and improvement efforts.
Progressive specialisation:
A1F (has second‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level:
Master's level
Admission requirements:
Admission to specialist nursing programme: public health nursing, and completed course Health promotion and preventive care in public health nursing, 15 ECTS cr or equivalent. Nursing degree and upper secondary level Swedish 3 or B or Swedish as a second language 3 or B and English 6 or A, or equivalent.
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
This course is included in the following programme
- Nursing Specialisation: Public Health Care (studied during year 1)