After having completed the course the student will be able to:

• Identify individual nursing needs.
• Explain, apply and evaluate nursing interventions that rest on humanistic values on the basis of the skills description and professional code of ethics for radiology nurses. 
• Apply patient safety and security in connection with radiology examinations.
• Apply good communication and information practices in connection with radiology examinations.
• Have knowledge of violence in close relationships.
• Explain how health and illness can be affected from the perspectives of equality and gender equality.
• Reflect on the importance of an evidence-based approach within care.
• Apply relevant laws and regulations.

•        Health/illness
•        Nursing measures
•        Nursing technologies
•        Communication and response
•        Violence in close relationships
•        Gender equality
•        Movement techniques
•        Simulation
•        Placement training
  

Teaching and learning take place through self-directed studies, study assignments, laboratory work, seminars with written and verbal presentations and placements. Lectures are held in selected parts of the course. Participation in laboratory work, seminars and placements is compulsory. The content of the course components and its form of tuition are specifically targeted at the radiology nurse profession.

The course learning outcomes will be examined and assessed through submitted individual and/or group assignments, seminars and placement.

There will be only one opportunity provided for re-examination/re-assignment for the course with regard to placement training. If there are special reasons for doing so, there may be additional opportunities granted for re-examination/re-assignment. The meaning of the term ‘special reasons’ is specified in the reasons stated in the Regulations of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, HSVFS 1999:1.

A pass grade for the work-related placement-period in this course is required in order to be able to do the placement in the next placement course, M0103H. 

A Pass grade is also required in this course before you can be admitted to the semester 4 Radiography with a specialisation in conventional x-ray.

This course includes components with placement training (placement components), covered by Special Regulations for Placement Training under a decision made by the head of department at the Department of Health Sciences, Luleå Technical University.

If a course is no longer provided or has undergone major changes, the students will be offered two opportunities for examination during the first year after the change has taken place and then once a year for another 2 years based on the official course syllabus that applied at registration.

Course M0100H equivalent to M0066H and M0067H