Recovery and Rehabilitation of Neurological Patients (5cr)

Objective

The students will form a perspective of the process involved in nursing and rehabilitating a neurological patient and the role of the nurse in this process. They will be able to describe the what theoretical competence and practical skills are needed in nursing neurological patients. The students will gain an overall picture of the planning, implementation and assessment of applying patient assets-based nursing with a neurological patient.

Content

- Falling ill with a neurological disease
- Description of a neurological disease and its progress and medical treatment guidelines
- asset-based nursing interventions and rehabilitative approach during the different stages of the illness (acute, convalescence and rehabilitation/early stages and later stages)
- Support interventions for neurological patients: social support, rehabilitation: physical, psychological, social and professional
- cooperation between the nurse and other professional groups and relatives during the patients recovery and rehabilitation process
- Competence requirements of neurological nursing

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Assignment assessment criteria:
Written communication (1/4)
- report has a clear structure
- the headings and content of the sections match
- reader-friendly
- accurate language, no spelling mistakes

Content management and thought (1/2)
- evidence based knowledge
- includes own observations, experiences or thoughts about the issue
- discursive and critical approach (particularly in discussion)
- nursing perspective

Source references and list of sources (1/4)
- list of sources and references in text match
- monographs, articles, electronic sources and notices of information are recorded as stipulated in the thesis instructions

- secondary sources i.e. sources that the author has not read but refer to something already used as a reference are correctly indicated in the text and list of sources. (Generally speaking it is best to always cite the original source. If you read a secondary source e.g. thoughts from Kutvonen (1990) that were originally from Böhler (1987), i.e. Kutvonen refers to Böhler and you are informed of Böhler's thoughts in Kutvonen's book, record the original source (Böhler) and the secondary source in their own positions in the list of sources and in the text as follows: According to the theory presented by Böhler (1987; ref. Kutvonen 1990, 78)...
- the source texts are not plagiarized without source references

Length: a page including one or two rows of text is not considered a complete page unless there is a diagram, table or image on the same page.