Person-Centred Care in Different Healthcare Settings

Education facts

Code: GVÅ382

Both nursing and medical sciences are integrated into the course. The course ‘Person-Centred Care in Different Healthcare Settings‘ includes an in-depth application of the nursing process, and the establishment and use of nursing plans based on evidence-based knowledge during the clinical placements in geriatric-, primary-, and emergency care. You as a student should be able to apply these areas with increasing independence in these healthcare settings during the clinical placements. Furthermore, you gain experience in communicating with patients and relatives and working in a leadership role in situations such as when collaborating with staff from different professions. The course also includes further training in reporting, documentation, drug management, and medical treatment methods, and builds on your ability to work with medical technology and informatics, with a basis in systematics, evidence-based knowledge, safety awareness, and sustainability. You as a student must adopt an ethical approach in your planning and provision of healthcare, with a holistic view of the person and in collaboration with patients and their relatives. Specific rules are applied if you as a student do not achieve a grade of Pass for a clinical placement period, or if a grade of Fail is decided in advance during on ongoing period of clinical placement. See more under the heading ‘Other information’.

Entry requirements

Methods and Theories regarding signs and symptoms of health/ill health I, 30 credits

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Person-Centred Care in Different Healthcare Settings

  Dalarna University

  Start date: 19 January 2026

  End date: 3 May 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %