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Summary of the Profile
Objective(s) of a study programme:
To prepare competent nursing professionals who would have the knowledge and skills of nursing science and practice, and who would be able to expand and develop their professional, leadership, and team-work competencies in order to achieve personal, family, community, and public health.
Learning outcomes:
1.Social skills:
1.1 Ability to communicate and collaborate with patients and their relatives as well as colleagues and scholars while exchanging the information needed to ensure an effective nursing process.
1.2 Ability to work individually and within a team while solving complex health issues in clinical practice.
1.3 Ability to follow the principles of professional ethics and citizenship in practice; take responsibility for the quality of the activity.
2. Personal skills:
2.1 Ability to plan professional nursing activities as well as study individually and develop in one’s professional field.
2.2 Ability to make independent decisions and evaluate their impact on certain nursing situations.
3. Knowledge and its‘ application:
3.1 Knowledge of the development of the nursing profession, innovations in nursing and medicine science, national and international health care policies, nursing administration, principles of professional communication and cooperation, patients' rights, psychological methods relevant to nursing.
3.2 Ability to critically and systematically analyse and apply the latest knowledge of nursing theory and interventions as well as the basics of fundamental and clinical medicine.
4. Ability to conduct research:
4.1 Ability to independently gather the data on a scientific nursing research as well as analyse and interpret them.
4.2 Ability to summarise and present research results as well as apply certain recommendations in general practice nursing.
5. Special skills:
5.1 Ability to plan and carry out the process of nursing: gather the information (data) on nursing, identify nursing issues (diagnoses), formulate nursing objectives, plan nursing actions, and evaluate nursing results.
5.2 Ability to nurse patients of different ages, sex, races, nationalities, religious views, patients of various health conditions as well as families and community groups in an intercultural environment.
5.3 Ability to organise and carry out the trainings on the healthy and ill as well as organise preventative work. Ability to present the knowledge on professional activity and practical experience in a competent way, while informally educating on the nursing practice and performing the functions of the professional practice teacher (mentor).
Activities of teaching and learning:
Lectures will be given to the whole course, Clinical nursing situations are analysed, patients' health assessment questions, individual nursing needs and nursing plans are discussed during the practical classes in a small group. The lecturer works in one group of students during the practical work. Nursing professional practice is carried out at the VU's practical bases. All students have a clinical placements and works individually under the supervision of the placement mentor and lecturer at the faculty.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
- Innovative learning methods, oriented towards developing students' creativity, general and specific competences are applied in Nursing study program.
- Theoretical knowledge is acquired during lectures, seminars, exercises and self-study. The various informative methods transmitted and consolidated in aim to raise awareness, independent thinking, evaluating facts, evidence and formulating attitudes.
- Working in groups methods enables students to combine and use the special and general abilities they possess, learn to communicate and collaborate, think creatively, perform tasks related to problem solving, critically reflect, publicly present solutions.
- Practical skills are developed in simulation classes, under the guidance of nursing teachers. Working in pairs focuses on on-the-spot data collection, learning using multimedia, medical and nursing equipment.
- Professional nursing practices are carried out at the clinical university campuses. They ensure effective acquisition of knowledge and the development of practical skills. Facing real nursing situations and discussing aspects of patient health assessment, problem-solving skills are developed, emphasis is placed on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teamwork, information sharing, patient education and disease prevention.
- Active teaching/learning methods are combined with tasks that encourage students to actively participate in discussions, share experiences, analyse and systematize the information.
- Online data analysis, empirical research methods, preparation and presentation of a report empowers students with evidence and advanced practice based nursing in studies.
- Self-assessment methods help the student to measure the progress of their achievements, receive effective feedback (practice diary, public presentations, discussions).
Evaluating of study results:
The main way of evaluating study results is the exam. Examinations and interim evaluations are conducted in writing or in verbal way.
The study results are evaluated by a lecturer who has taught the subject. A commission to evaluate the study results may be formed at the request of a student.
Students' knowledge during examinations is evaluated from 1 to 10 points.
10 points - the student has mastered the material studied, is able to analyse and summarize it, uses concepts and terms properly. In writing - at least 90% of the answers were answered. questions.
8-9 points - the student has mastered the study material very well / well, is able to systematize and summarize it, uses concepts and terms properly. At least 85% of the respondents answered in writing. questions (9 points) or 75 percent questions (8 points).
6-7 points - the student has mastered the study material satisfactorily, some of the concepts and terms are used inaccurately. At least 65% of respondents answered in writing. questions (7 points) or 55 percent questions (6 points).
5 points - the student has superficially mastered the material studied, does not use the concepts and terms accurately. In writing - at least 50% of the answers were answered. questions.
4-1 points - the student has not mastered the study material; terms and concepts are not used properly. Less than 50 percent answered in writing questions.
In order to ensure the link between assessment methods and the object of assessment, there are various ways to apply: the level of knowledge and perception - tests, presentations; application level - problem-solving tasks; Analysis level - case study, case study; synthesis level - review of scientific articles; assessment level - research work, case study, presentations, reports.
A cumulative assessment is used to measure student achievement, which enables a student to consistently pursue study results. The weight and number of cumulative scoring parts are presented in the description of each subject.
The case descriptions contain a structure of the assessment number and their distribution during the course of the semester, the links of assessment tasks with the context of the subject, and individual tasks are indicated.
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
The program consists of compulsory, optional subjects (modules) and clinical practice. The program ends with the defence of the Bachelor's final thesis and a professional qualification examination.
The curriculum is applied-oriented, focused on science-based nursing practice and the development of scientific work abilities. The study program consists of study subjects and modules, the volume of which is 5, 10, 20 or 30 ECTS.
The bachelor's degree program in Nursing is 240 ECTS. The student's full workload is 6420 hours: 3336 hours of contact work (of which 924 hours for theory and 2412 hours for practice) and 3084 hours of autonomous work.
The program consists of:
- Physiology (5 ECTS);
- Anatomy and histology (5 ECTS);
- Organic chemistry and Biochemistry (5 ECTS);
- Basics of biomedical physics and radiology (5 ECTS);
- Sociology, Management and Health Law (5 ECTS);
- Introduction to nursing and professional ethics (5 ECTS);
- Microbiology, immunology, and virology (5 ECTS);
- Pathology (5 ECTS);
- Pharmacology (5 ECTS);
- The basics of psychology and educational science (5 ECTS);
- Introduction to professional practice (5 ECTS);
- General nursing and practice (10 ECTS);
- General and special therapeutic nursing (5 ECTS);
- The practice of therapeutic nursing (10 ECTS);
- General and special surgical nursing (5 ECTS);
- The practice of surgical nursing (10 ECTS);
- Midwifery, gynaecological, and child nursing (5 ECTS);
- Midwifery, gynaecological nursing practice (5 ECTS);
- The practice of child nursing (10 ECTS);
- Mental health nursing (5 ECTS);
- Community, home, and palliative nursing (5 ECTS);
- Gerontology and geriatric nursing (5 ECTS);
- Critical care, anaesthesiology, and intensive nursing (5 ECTS);
- The basics of public health and dietetics (5 ECTS);
- General and special therapeutic health nursing (5 ECTS);
- Community, home and palliative nursing (5 ECTS);
- The practice of geriatric nursing and nursing of the disabled (5 ECTS);
- The practice of anaesthesia and intensive nursing (5 ECTS);
- Scientific research methodology and Final Bachelor thesis I (5 ECTS);
- Professional clinical practice I (30 ECTS);
- Professional clinical practice II (20 ECTS);
- Final qualification exam (5 ECTS);
- Final Bachelor thesis II (5 ECTS);
- Optional subjects (modules) (15 (5 ECTS))
Optional courses:
Student can choose optional subjects (15 credits) during the 2nd, 4th and 5th semesters
Distinctive features of a study programme:
• The program focuses on the training of highly skilled and competent nurses,
• The VU's Practical Bases provide the highest levels of medical studies and medical research, where nurses will have the opportunity to study in an interdisciplinary team and engage in top-level research activities
• The material base is exclusive, the simulation and nursing intervention laboratories subscribed to scientific databases are at Vilnius University Hospital Santara Clinics.
Access to professional activity:
- After completing the four-year Bachelor's Degree Program, graduates will receive a Bachelor's Degree and a Professional Nursing Professional qualification. They will have access to employment at all levels of (primary, secondary and tertiary) personal health care facilities: hospitals, outpatient clinics, primary health care centres, and private health centres. They will also be able to work as mentors for nursing students in health care institutions. They will also be able to start independent nursing practice under the laws of the Republic of Lithuania.
- The scope, rights, duties, competences and responsibilities of the nurses responsible for general care nurses are regulated by the Lithuanian Medical Standard MN 28: 2011 "Nurse of General Practice. Rights, Duties, Competence and Responsibility ", approved by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania in 2011. June 8 Order No V-591.
Access to further study:
Graduates can continue their studies at Lithuanian or foreign higher education institutions according to the programs of the second cycle (master's) at the same study field.
