Module GW3350-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2020, compulsory, foundations of human sciences
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2020, compulsory, foundations of human sciences

Classes and lectures:

• Health promotion and prevention in the nursing profession (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Enviromental medicine (exercise, 1 SWS)
• Enviromental medicine (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 42 hours private studies
• 60 hours in-classroom work
• 48 hours integrated internship hours

Contents of teaching:

• Fundamentals of clinical environmental medicine, with a typical example of application to an area of choice related to nursing or healthcare in the degree program or vocation
• Terminology, theories, and models relevant to health, health promotion, and prevention
• Immersion: theoretical and empirical fundamentals of health promotion and prevention in nursing (with in-depth study through typical care situations with a high degree of relevance, because of their prevalence and/or health consequences for the patients)
• Immersion: theories and models on avoiding and coping with occupational overstress, crises, and conflict situations, including current empirical knowledge on selected prevention and coping strategies
• Excursus: legal bases on prevention and occupational health & safety

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge transfer: the students are familiar with the goals, key terminology, and field of clinical environmental medicine.
• Knowledge transfer: you comprehend typical examples of key theoretical and empirical fundamentals of the connection between environmental factors and human health.
• Knowledge transfer: you have essential knowledge and comprehension of diverse biological, psychological, social science theories, and models of health, health promotion, and prevention.
• Immersion: you know and comprehend theories and models of health promotion and prevention as an element of care giving, and gain an overview of typical examples of the status of empirical evidence on these theories and models.
• Immersion: you know and comprehend the theories and models on the connection between the genesis of and coping with occupational stress, and crises/conflicts on the job and in teamwork. You are aware of strategies on prevention and early recognition of occupational overstress, and crises/conflict situations.
• Application competency: you are capable of applying your clinical knowledge on the connection between environmental factors and human health, and health promotion and prevention, to give due consideration to nursing diagnostics and decisions on care giving of persons in need of care.
• Application competency: you are capable of applying your clinical knowledge on the connection between environmental factors and human health, health promotion and prevention, and on coping with occupational overstress, crises, and conflict situations, to include these in shaping your own learning and daily work routine.
• Communicative und systemic competency: you can independently research specialized information on problems and issues related to topics of clinical medicine, health promotion and prevention, and evaluate these in terms of their significance and relevance to the initial problem, and present the findings plausibly, clearly, and tailored to the persons addressed (orally and in writing).
• Communicative und systemic competency: you are capable of identifying situations or conditional factors on self-perceived or degree program related coping limits, or conflict situations or crises, and expressing these orally to appropriate third parties. If necessary, you can exchange plausible suggestions with such persons and propose possibly helpful behavioral or relationship modifications.

Grading through:

• Poster

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Katharina Silies

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing
• Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Prof. Dr. Katharina Silies
• Dr. rer. nat. Walter Häuser
• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer
• MitarbeiterInnen der Sektion Medizin
• MitarbeiterInnen des Instituts

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

23.06.2025