Professional Development in Practice (Advanced Special Studies in Service Operations) (15 cr)

Learning outcomes

The student is able to
?deepen his/ her professional knowledge and skills in a development environment of his/ her choice while working in a cost-conscious manner
apply the basic concepts of management and work community in the development environment
apply the principles of service design in his / her own work
make conclusions regarding his / her own professional knowledge and skills in accordance with the professional requirements

Location and time

Practice is done in different nursing environments. Time of practice is according to individual PSP

Materials

-Practice placement guide and learning contract are in the Degree clinical practice OPTIMA Workspace
-Practice placement supervisor will comment on the student´s learning contract. The learning contract will be accepted by the supervising teacher, placment supervisor and the student
-Practice placement assignment should be done according to the instructions given by the supervising teacher
-At the end of practice, the student will upload all scanned documents in own Optima worksheet.

Teaching methods

Clinical practice in different nursing environments.

Employer connections

There is cooperation between the institution and working life partners. Theoretical knowledge learned in school, will be implemented in the different nursing environments.

Exam schedules

NO EXAMS

International connections

Students have the possibility to go on exchange abroad.

Completion alternatives

If you have a signed contract to work as a REGISTERED NURSE during the summer, then you have a possibility of using it as part of your practice. Please check Degree clinical practice folder for more information on Application for recognition of paid work.
Note that this has to be agreed with your tutor and all necessary documents submitted beforehand.

Student workload

1cr = 27hours of student´s workload.
Note that the minimum number of weeks that can be done in any given nursing environments 3 weeks. Preferably practice should be done as a whole or divided into two i.e. 5 weeks each.
Reduction of 8 hours from the total number of hours, for doing placement assignment

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Placement rejection criteria
1. Professional skills:
- Unethical actions
- Actions that endangers patient safety
- Lack of essential knowledge and skills
2. Learning capacity
- Not able to receive/seek guidance
- Lack of motivation and takinginitiative
- Lack of commitment to practice (Violation of commitment))
3. Achievement of goals
- Lack of description of starting level and goals for the training period
- Failure in achieving persons goals for the training period
- Failure to complete placement task(s)
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4. Achieving quantitative criteria
- Training hours is in complete
- The student has not present his/her signed work shift
5. Barriers due to student´s health status
A rejection in one of the criterial can lead to a decision rejecting the practice.

Content scheduling

Schedule for AUTUMN 2018 practice is found in Degree clinical practice folder in Optima
Length of practice varies according to individual PSP

Evaluation scale

Approved/Failed

Further information

-Student must have passed INTENSIVE MEDICATION CALCULATIONS prior to start of placement
Note that if the above has not been fullfilled, then your placement will need to be cancelled at least 3 weeks before the start of practice placement.