Course: Clinical reasoning and arguing propaedeutic level 1 credits: 20
- Course code
- HVVP25BVZ1
- Name
- Clinical reasoning and arguing propaedeutic level 1
- Study year
- 2025-2026
- ECTS credits
- 20
- Language
- Dutch, with parts in English
- Coordinator
- J.D. van Wieren
- Modes of delivery
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- Action learning
- Assignment
- Guest lecture
- Lecture
- Project-based learning
- Tutorial
- Assessments
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- Anamnesis/evaluation - Skills test
- Bad news conversation - Skills test
- Care plan Nanda-Noc-Nic - Report
- Care Plan Omaha - Report
- Clinical lesson on appropriate end-of-life care - Professional product
- Oral accountability - Oral
- Recommendation for evidence-based practice - Professional product
- Two reflections on meaningful situations - Report
Learning outcomes
- The novice professional identifies the need for nursing care with the care recipient and their relatives through clinical reasoning, based on evidence-based practice, and provides this care in complex situations.
- The novice professional promotes self-management of the care recipient and their relatives in a culturally sensitive manner, addressing the needs of the care recipient and their relatives.
- The novice professional communicates in a person-oriented and interprofessional manner with the care recipient, their relatives and involved healthcare professionals so that the needs of the care recipient and their relatives are met.
- Can gather and combine information from various sources in the different phases of the nursing process using appropriate models and theories.
- Determines the nursing process based on provided theories and classifications related to clinical reasoning and makes choices based on the steps of EBP and relevant laws and regulations.
- Can use appropriate conversation skills to connect culturally sensitive and person-oriented with the care recipient and their relatives.
- Can use available (healthcare) technology, apps and data to support professional and person-oriented communication with the aim of strengthening self-management of the care recipient and their relatives.
Core concepts from BN2020 training profile
- Clinical reasoning: Continuous process-oriented data collection and analysis aimed at identifying care recipients' questions and problems, and choosing appropriate care outcomes and interventions accordingly.
- Implementing care: Providing integrated care by independently performing all common (including reserved and high-risk) nursing actions in complex care situations in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and from a holistic perspective.
- Strengthening self-management: Supporting self-management of people, their relatives and their social network, with the aim of maintaining or improving daily functioning in relation to health and illness and quality of life.
- Person-oriented communication: Actively listening to the care recipient, informing and empowering the care recipient to make choices in care and approaching the care recipient as a unique person; naturally being a guide, coach, expert or advisor, depending on the moment and circumstances.
- Use Evidence-based practice (EBP): in consultation with the care recipient (and/or his network), colleagues and other disciplines, weighing up (1) actively sought recent (nursing) knowledge from (scientific) literature, guidelines or protocols, (2) professional expertise and (3) personal knowledge, wishes and preferences of the care recipient and/or his network.
The first level involves a medium-complex context in which the focus is on applying knowledge and skills methodically using guidelines and protocols in varying but similar situations. The nature of the task is structured where familiar methods are applied. There is a build-up in self-direction leading to partly directed, partly undirected supervision. With guidance during preparation and execution focusing on learning (strategic) planning, self-efficacy, motivation and reflection. Reflection on action focuses on knowing and understanding, with a focus on innovation.
Content
In this module, you develop skills in the nursing process to support self-management in care recipients and their relatives. You will be given methodologies and classifications, such as Nanda and the Omaha classification, and learn to apply these in care plans and electronic client records. You combine systematically collected information in a simulated care environment. Together with your learning team, you prepare two care plans, underpinned by theories, classifications and legislation and justify this during an individual interview. Professional orientation in practice provides insight into the practical application of the nursing process within care settings.
Communication skills are taught through teaching sessions using simulation interviews, focusing on person-oriented communication, attention to person- and family-centred care and the use of ICT. During the module, you focus on evidence-based practice (EBP) for underpinning nursing interventions, including reviewing scientific literature. With your learning group, you give a clinical lesson on appropriate care for a care recipient in the last phase of his/her life and the role of the nurse in this process.
Within this module, you will work on personal and professional (identity) development in a cyclical process, focusing on learning objectives, self-assessment and reflection. These reflections should be carried out through an applied reflection methodology.
The 20-week module includes an average of 8 hours per week of teaching meetings with additional self-study, assignment development and learning team consultations.
Topics covered include:
In this module, your competences are assessed based on the specific learning outcomes. Different tests are offered for each learning outcome. The indicators are level-determining. Assessment can be individual or group-based and evidence-based. Each individual test is assessed with a mark and must be satisfactory. You are entitled to two tests per year per test. The average of these tests forms the learning outcome grade. The average grade of the learning outcomes forms the final grade of the module.
Feedback from fellow students and lecturers prior to assessment is part of the learning process. An oral evaluation on your personal goals and progress takes place halfway through and at the end of the module.
Exemptions may be granted on the basis of previous results obtained elsewhere and/or work experience.
Communication skills are taught through teaching sessions using simulation interviews, focusing on person-oriented communication, attention to person- and family-centred care and the use of ICT. During the module, you focus on evidence-based practice (EBP) for underpinning nursing interventions, including reviewing scientific literature. With your learning group, you give a clinical lesson on appropriate care for a care recipient in the last phase of his/her life and the role of the nurse in this process.
Within this module, you will work on personal and professional (identity) development in a cyclical process, focusing on learning objectives, self-assessment and reflection. These reflections should be carried out through an applied reflection methodology.
The 20-week module includes an average of 8 hours per week of teaching meetings with additional self-study, assignment development and learning team consultations.
Topics covered include:
- Imaging hospital care, district care, intellectual disability care
- Nursing care process and classifications
- Anamnesis and assessment interviews
- Clinical reasoning and electronic client records
- Evidence-based practice (EBP)
- Academic writing
- Laws and regulations in healthcare
- Family care
- Person- and family-centred care
In this module, your competences are assessed based on the specific learning outcomes. Different tests are offered for each learning outcome. The indicators are level-determining. Assessment can be individual or group-based and evidence-based. Each individual test is assessed with a mark and must be satisfactory. You are entitled to two tests per year per test. The average of these tests forms the learning outcome grade. The average grade of the learning outcomes forms the final grade of the module.
Feedback from fellow students and lecturers prior to assessment is part of the learning process. An oral evaluation on your personal goals and progress takes place halfway through and at the end of the module.
Exemptions may be granted on the basis of previous results obtained elsewhere and/or work experience.
Included in programme(s)
School(s)
- School of Nursing