Module PF3100-KP06

Duration

2 Semester

Turnus of offer

every summer semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Applied Nursing (part-time) 2022, optional subject, for equivalence check
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2020, compulsory, Evidence-based nursing practice
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2018, compulsory, Evidence-based nursing practice
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2017, compulsory, Evidence-based nursing practice

Classes and lectures:

• PF3103-V: Case by case: Applicating the principles of evidence-based practice to nursing care II (lecture, 2 SWS)
• PF3103-S: Case by case: Applicating the principles of evidence-based practice to nursing care II (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 50 hours integrated internship hours
• 70 hours private studies and exercises
• 60 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Case-specific revision, immersion, and application of material taught on clinical, ethical, organizational, management, and scientific knowledge and skills on evidence-based nursing of individuals in need of care, with complex health problems and/or complex care arrangements
• Typical health problems of relevance: acute or chronic illnesses or limitations (single or multiple illnesses), which imply a moderate to high-level of nursing support, because of their clinical severity or effects on one’s daily activities and social integration
• Typical care arrangements of relevance: care circumstances defined by the need for mutually agreed upon nursing, medical, therapeutic, and possibly professional options and interventions, and/or by the explicit need to include familial or other informal support systems
• Immersion into challenges faced in providing evidence-based information and advice to the patients, and making joint evidence-based decisions (in reference to processes involving nursing decisions and actions)
• Case-based demands placed on nursing actions to assist with medical diagnostics and therapy, and intra- and interdisciplinary teamwork
• Revision/consolidation: research, critique, and review of evidence-based recommendations and specialized information on issues concerning individual nursing circumstances
• Opportunities and barriers to evidence-based nursing under complex circumstances

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Immersion: the students have profound, in-depth knowledge and comprehension of how to recognize and evaluate nursing needs and problems, through observation of the demands placed on evidence-based diagnostics of persons of diverse ages in need of care, with complex health problems and/or complex care arrangements.
• Immersion: you have profound, in-depth knowledge and comprehension of evidence-based decisions, and you know how to select adequate nursing intervention for persons of diverse ages in need of care, with complex health problems and/or complex care arrangements.
• Immersion: you have profound, in-depth knowledge and comprehension of how to adequately assist with medical diagnostics and therapy for nursing under the aforementioned complex cases.
• Immersion: you have profound, in-depth knowledge and comprehension of foresighted and appropriate inclusion of relatives and informal caregivers, and other professionals and institutions involved in nursing under the aforementioned complex cases.
• Immersion: you are well aware of ethically challenging nursing circumstances, and possess the necessary knowledge and intellectual faculties to contribute to an ethically reasonable change in corresponding nursing circumstances.
• Application competency: you are capable of applying the aforementioned in-depth clinical, ethical, organizational, management, and scientific knowledge to adapt the care to relevant circumstances, for persons of different ages in need of care with complex health problems and/or complex care arrangements.
• Application competency: you can competently identify the precise needs and problems of the aforementioned patients, and initiate adequate nursing intervention. As such, you consider not only evidence-based recommendations on care giving, but also especially the individual preferences and needs of the patients, clinical information on their state of health and illness, medical diagnostics and therapy, and familial, organizational, and other conditions concerning the nursing circumstances.
• Communicative competency: you are capable of competently describing, substantiating, and documenting the outcome of your nursing diagnostics, decisions, the actions taken, and the results of their application. As such, you use medical terminology and clarifications tailored to the persons addressed.
• Systemic competency: you are capable of researching further information of relevance to the circumstances (individual clinical information, specialized scientific information, information on factors relevant to the context), in order to assess individual nursing needs or reach a decision on adequate care giving.

Grading through:

• written exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing
• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer
• MitarbeiterInnen des Instituts
• Katrin Schütz, MScPH

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

13.03.2024