Current active course description (last updated 2025/26)
Clinical Practice: Nursing Management and Service Development, Community and/or Specialist Health Care Services
PRA2037
Current active course description (last updated 2025/26)

Clinical Practice: Nursing Management and Service Development, Community and/or Specialist Health Care Services

PRA2037
The course builds on previous supervised professional training studies and theoretical courses. The course deals with the practical execution of management and service development in the health and nursing services at different levels.
The course deals with work relating to quality, safety, service development and innovation, as well as providing an understanding of how organisations work. The aim of the course is to develop skills in nursing organisation and management that will form the basis for workflow, reduction in adverse events and variation, as well as ensuring patient and client participation.

All courses from the first up to and including the seventh semester except SYK2013 Professional nursing management and service development must be passed before starting the course, with exceptions in the following situations:

If indicated due to illness, fail grade for the supervised professional training or other special conditions, one of the supervised professional training periods in the sixth-seventh semester may be transferred to the following autumn. This would result in a delay in the studies, since the supervised professional training course would be postponed to the following autumn.

Knowledge

  • have knowledge of how the health services are managed and organised
  • have knowledge about quality and patient safety within the different levels of the health service
  • know about risk factors in the health service and principles and measures that reduce adverse events
  • know about tools and methods that help promote innovation processes, implementation and continuous improvement work

Skills

  • can apply knowledge of the health and welfare system, laws, regulations and guidelines in one’s duties
  • can reflect on existing routines and methods at the place of supervised professional training and can initiate dialogue regarding the implementation of new knowledge and new work methods
  • can apply methods of quality development work
  • can apply knowledge of health-promoting, preventive and inclusive work measures
  • can apply professional knowledge to initiate and contribute to interdisciplinary, interprofessional and intersectoral interaction, in order to ensure a coordinated, comprehensive and coherent course of treatment

General competence

  • can plan and carry out professional nursing management
  • can plan and implement targeted collaboration processes and quality development work in collaboration with patients, relatives and other service providers from an interdisciplinary/interagency perspective
  • demonstrates independence and can supervise/teach patients, relatives and colleagues
In addition to semester fees and literature on the reading list, costs must be expected regarding additional housing, travel expenses etc. related to supervised professional training, cf. Nord University’s guidelines.
Compulsory. Supervised professional training study

Five weeks of supervised professional training studies in the municipal or specialist health services.

Practice the nursing profession during supervised professional training under the supervision of nurses who are familiar with the learning outcomes of the course and who will assess the student’s achievement of these.

The student will perform tasks relating to the subject area during the supervised professional training studies.

The student will complete a self-assessment in respect of their own achievement of the learning outcomes.

Five weeks of supervised professional training

SPT - Examination: The student will practice the profession of nursing and their achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed throughout the process. In the event that there is a risk that the student will not pass, the student must be notified in writing at the time of the interim assessment or at least three weeks before the final assessment is due to take place, any shortcomings must be specified and documented and the student must be given the opportunity to work on these up until the final assessment.

An accurate assessment can be ensured through collaboration between the placement supervisor and the lecturer based on clear learning outcomes for which the student will also have the opportunity to assess themselves.

The following requirements must be met in order to pass the period of supervised professional training:

90% attendance during the supervised professional training

Achievement of learning outcomes

Approved written, practical and/or oral assignments

Grading scale: Pass/fail

Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:

PRA2031 - Clinical Practice: Nursing Management and Service Development, Community and/or Specialist Health Care Services - 7 credits