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Course syllabus - Theories and Concepts in Caring/Nursing Science
Scope
7.5 credits
Course code
VAE030
Valid from
Autumn semester 2014
Education level
Second cycle
Progressive Specialisation
A1N (Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements).
Main area(s)
Caring Science with Specialization in Nursing
School
School of Health, Care and Social Welfare
Ratified
2013-02-01
Revised
2014-02-12
Literature lists
Course literature is preliminary up to 8 weeks before course start. Course literature can be valid over several semesters.
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Books
Knowledge development in nursing : theory and process
Tenth edition. : St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier; Mosby, [2018] - xii, 314 pages
ISBN: 9780323530613 LIBRIS-ID: 22490875
Articles
The Nordic Tradition of Caring Science: The Works of Three Theorists
Nursing Science Quarterly, 28, 4, 288-296, 2015
Patient participation: a concept analysis
Journal of Advanced nursing, 24, 561-571, 1996
Continuity of care: Cliché or viable nursing concept?
1979
Childrens participation in decision-making: Balancing protection with shared decision-making using a situational perspective
2011
Continuity of Care During End of Life: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis
2015
Person-centred care-ready for prime time. Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs
2011
The theory of caritative caring: A vision
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20(3), 201-202, 2007
Ethical aspects of caregivers experience with person with dementia at mealtimes
2015
'Continuity of care': a critical interpretive synthesis of how the concept was elaborated by a national research programme
2012
The relation between patient-centeredness and patient empowerment: A discussion on concepts
Patient Education and Counseling, 79, 167-172, 2010
Participation, both a means and an end: a conceptual analysis of processes and outcomes in childhood disability
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 59(1), 16-25, 2016
URL: Link
Older patients participation in team meetings- A phenomenological study from the nurses perspective
2013
Aestetic leadership: Its place in the clinical nursing
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 36, 5, 357-361, 2015
URL: Link
A concept analysis of person-centred care
2012
The human becoming school of thought in 2050
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 4,308-301. doi: 10.1177/0894318407307160, 2007
Envisioning Nursing in 2050 through the eyes of nurse theorists: Rosemare Risso Parse and Martha E Rogers
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 4, 307-308, 2007
URL: Link
Hermeneutic caring conversations in forensic psychiatric caring
Nursing Ethics, 26(2), 515-525, 2019
URL: Link
Reconnecting with oneself while struggling between life and death: The phenomenon of recovery as experienced by persons at risk of suicide
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 26(2), 200207, 2017
URL: Link
To be present, share and nurture: A lifeworld phenomenological study of relatives participation in the suicidal persons recovery
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 12(1), 2017
URL: Link
Recovery as a threshold concept in mental health nurse education
Nurse Education Today, 32; 534-539, 2012
Experience of self-management of medications among older people with multimorbidity
2015
How does the healthcare system affect medication self-management among older adults with multimorbidity?
2016
Illness as unhomelike being-in-the world: Heidegger and the phenomenology of medicine
Med Health care and Philos, 14, 333-334. DOI 10.1007/s11019-010-9301-0, 2011
Patients perceptions of participation in nursing care on medical wards
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. Doi: 10.1111/scs.12237, 2015
Caring for insiderness: Phenomenologically informed insights that can guide practice
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 9, Article 21421, 2014
Intercultural caring - an abductive model
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 22, 485-496. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2007.00555.x, 2008
Reference Literature
Nursing theorists and their work
9. ed. : 2017 - xiv, 601 s.
ISBN: 9780323402248 LIBRIS-ID: 21263132
Rest: A health-related phenomenon and concept in caring science.
2015
Reflective lifeworld research
2. ed. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2008 - 370 s.
ISBN: 978-91-44-04925-0 LIBRIS-ID: 10616729
The enigmatic phenomenon of loneliness
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 2, 195-207, 2009
URL: Link
Vägen till patientens värld och personcentrerad vård : att bli lyssnad på och förstådd
Första upplagan : Stockholm : Liber, [2017] - 356 sidor
ISBN: 978-91-47-11271-5 LIBRIS-ID: 20171644
Personcentrering inom hälso- och sjukvård : från filosofi till praktik
1. uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2014 - 261 s.
ISBN: 978-91-47-11405-4 LIBRIS-ID: 14843107
Swedish Initiative on person-centred care
BMJ, 2015;350:h160, 2015
Caring Science in an New Key
Nursing Science Quarterly, 15, pp 61-65, 2002
Embodying nursing openheartedness: An existential perspective
Journal of Holistic Nursing, 27(2), 2009
URL: Link
Same same or different? A review of reviews of person-centered and patient-centered care
Patient Education and Counseling, 102(1), 3-11., 2019
Person-centered nursing home care in the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden: Why building cross-comparative capacity may help us radically rethink nursing home care and the role of the RN
Nordic Journal of Nursing Research, 36(2), 59-61, 2016
Exploring person centredness: a qualitative meta-synthesis of four studies
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 24:620-63411, 2010
Oneself as another
New ed. : Chigago : University of Chicago Press, 1994 - viii, 363 s.
ISBN: 9780226713298 LIBRIS-ID: 4719301
The knowledge of attention
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 1(3), 133-140, 2006
Lifeworld-led healthcare: Revisiting a humanizing philosophy that integrates emerging trends
Medicine Health Care and Philosophy, 10, 53-63, 2007
URL: Link
Omvårdnadsteorier i klinisk praxis
1. utg. : Stockholm : Natur & kultur, 2012 - 343 s.
ISBN: 9789127131828 (inb.) LIBRIS-ID: 13603211
Vårdvetenskapliga begrepp i teori och praktik
Andra upplagan : Lund : Studentlitteratur AB, 2017 - 468 sidor
ISBN: 978-91-44-11243-5 LIBRIS-ID: 20900395
Other Materials
Some further scientific articles will be added during the course.
Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd,
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Books
Integrated theory and knowledge development in nursing
7. ed. : St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby Elsevier, cop. 2008 - xv, 320 s.
ISBN: 9780323052702 LIBRIS-ID: 10615945
Articles
Patient participation: a concept analysis
Journal of Advanced nursing, 24, 561-571, 1996
Continuity of care: Cliché or viable nursing concept?
1979
Childrens participation in decision-making: Balancing protection with shared decision-making using a situational perspective
2011
Continuity of Care During End of Life: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis
2015
Person-centred care-ready for prime time. Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs
2011
The theory of caritative caring: A vision
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 3, 201-202. DOI: 10.1177/089431807303434, 2007
Ethical aspects of caregivers experience with person with dementia at mealtimes
2015
'Continuity of care': a critical interpretive synthesis of how the concept was elaborated by a national research programme
2012
The relation between patient-centeredness and patient empowerment: A discussion on concepts
Patient Education and Counseling, 79, 167-172, 2010
Older patients participation in team meetings- A phenomenological study from the nurses perspective
2013
Aestetic leadership: Its place in the clinical nursing
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 36, 5, 357-361, 2015
URL: Link
A concept analysis of person-centred care
2012
The human becoming school of thought in 2050
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 4,308-301. doi: 10.1177/0894318407307160, 2007
Envisioning Nursing in 2050 through the eyes of nurse theorists: Rosemare Risso Parse and Martha E Rogers
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 4, 307-308, 2007
URL: Link
Experience of self-management of medications among older people with multimorbidity
2015
How does the healthcare system affect medication self-management among older adults with multimorbidity?
2016
Illness as unhomelike being-in-the world: Heidegger and the phenomenology of medicine
Med Health care and Philos, 14, 333-334. DOI 10.1007/s11019-010-9301-0, 2011
Patients perceptions of participation in nursing care on medical wards
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. Doi: 10.1111/scs.12237, 2015
Caring for insiderness: Phenomenologically informed insights that can guide practice
2014
Intercultural caring - an abductive model
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 22, 485-496. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2007.00555.x, 2008
Reference Literature
Nursing theorists and their work
2010
Rest: A health-related phenomenon and concept in caring science.
2015
Reflective lifeworld research
2. ed. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2008 - 370 s.
ISBN: 978-91-44-04925-0 LIBRIS-ID: 10616729
Recovery as a threshold concept in mental health nurse education
2012
Vårdvetenskapliga begrepp i teori och praktik
2012
Omvårdnadsteorier i klinisk praxis
1. utg. : Stockholm : Natur & kultur, 2012 - 343 s.
ISBN: 9789127131828 (inb.) LIBRIS-ID: 13603211
Other Materials
Some further scientific articles will be added during the course.
Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd,
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Books
Integrated theory and knowledge development in nursing
8. ed. : St. Louis, MO : Mosby/Elsevier, cop. 2011 - xiii, 272 p.
ISBN: 9780323077187 (pbk. : alk. paper) LIBRIS-ID: 12281326
Articles
Humanization of health care: A reflexive theoretical essay based on the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas
Text Context Nursing, 23, 3, 767-775, 2014
URL: Link
Rest: A health-related phenomenon and concept in caring science
Global Qualitatitve Nursing Research, 1-8. DOI: 10.1177/2333393615583663, 2015
Patient participation: a concept analysis
Journal of Advanced nursing, 24, 561-571, 1996
The theory of caritative caring: A vision
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 3, 201-202. DOI: 10.1177/089431807303434, 2007
The relation between patient-centeredness and patient empowerment: A discussion on concepts
Patient Education and Counseling, 79, 167-172, 2010
Older patients participation in team meetings- A phenomenological study from the nurses perspective
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 8; 21908, 2013
URL: Link
Aestetic leadership: Its place in the clinical nursing
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 36, 5, 357-361, 2015
URL: Link
Levinass ethics as a basis of healthcare - callenges and dilemmas
Nursing Philosophy, 16; pp. 51-63, 2015
The human becoming school of thought in 2050
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 4,308-301. doi: 10.1177/0894318407307160, 2007
Envisioning Nursing in 2050 through the eyes of nurse theorists: Rosemare Risso Parse and Martha E Rogers
Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 4, 307-308, 2007
URL: Link
Recovery as a threshold concept in mental health nurse education
Nurse Education Today, 32; 534-539, 2012
Illness as unhomelike being-in-the world: Heidegger and the phenomenology of medicine
Med Health care and Philos, 14, 333-334. DOI 10.1007/s11019-010-9301-0, 2011
Patients perceptions of participation in nursing care on medical wards
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. Doi: 10.1111/scs.12237, 2015
Caring for insiderness: Phenomenologically informed insights that can guide practice.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Health and Well-Being, 9, 2014, 21421,
URL: Link
Intercultural caring - an abductive model
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 22, 485-496. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2007.00555.x, 2008
The experiences of close relatives living with a person with serious chronic illness
Qualitative Health Research, 14, 396. DOI: 10.1177/104973203261692, 2004
Other Materials
Some further scientific articles will be added during the course.
Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd,
Reference Literature
Nursing theorists and their work
7. ed. : Maryland Heights, Mo. : Mosby, cop. 2010 - xviii, 797 s.
ISBN: 9780323056410 (pbk.) LIBRIS-ID: 11640805
Reflective lifeworld research
2. ed. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2008 - 370 s.
ISBN: 978-91-44-04925-0 LIBRIS-ID: 10616729
Objectives
The objective of the course is that students acquire additional in-depth knowledge of philosophical and theoretical perspectives in the caring and nursing sciences. Students are also expected to develop their skills concerning the critical exchange of information on a scientific level.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1 give an account of, and evaluate, different philosophical and theoretical perspectives relevant to knowledge development in the caring sciences and nursing
2 analyze differences and similarities when it comes to the assessment of core concepts in caring science theories
3 assess the relevance of concepts, models, and theories with respect to the care of patients
4 compare how concepts in the caring sciences apply to different care contexts
Course content
Philosophical and theoretical perspectives in the caring sciences and nursing
Concepts, models, and theories in the caring sciences and nursing
The significance of theories in practice
Tuition
Teaching and learning take place by means of individual studies, lectures, seminars, and group work.
Specific requirements
A completed bachelor´s degree from an institution of higher education of three years or more, equivalent to 180 credits within the fields of Nursing or Caring Science. In addition Swedish B/Swedish 3 and English B/English 6 are required. For courses given entirely in English exemption is made from the requirement in Swedish B/Swedish 3.
Examination
Exercise (GRU1), 2 credits, corresponds to learning objectives 3-4. Marks Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).
Exercise (INL1), 3.5 credits, corresponds to learning objectives 1-4. Marks Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).
Seminar (SEM1), 2 credits, active participation in the course seminars, corresponding to learning objectives 1-4. Marks Pass (G).
For a VG on the course as a whole, a VG on INL1 is required. See the study guidelines for more information.
A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding a disability has the opportunity to submit a request for supportive measures during written examinations or other forms of examination, in accordance with the Rules and Regulations for Examinations at First-cycle and Second-cycle Level at Mälardalen University (2020/1655). It is the examiner who takes decisions on any supportive measures, based on what kind of certificate is issued, and in that case which measures are to be applied.
Suspicions of attempting to deceive in examinations (cheating) are reported to the Vice-Chancellor, in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance, and are examined by the University’s Disciplinary Board. If the Disciplinary Board considers the student to be guilty of a disciplinary offence, the Board will take a decision on disciplinary action, which will be a warning or suspension.
Grade
Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail