Study Guide

Objective

The student:
- can produce a Bachelor Thesis project that is to be based on healthy or sick individuals and / or groups' needs or problems, alternatively evidence-based care or teaching in health care for individuals and small groups at care facilities or in the community
- can reflect on how evidence-based knowledge can be applied in care work and suggest implications for care practice
- can apply a nursing theoretical perspective in different nursing contexts
- can act as an opponent for another degree project
- can account for the most important content of the degree project in a maturity test, as well as demonstrate the ability to express oneself in writing

Content

Collect and analyze data for the thesis, with consideration to the necessary ethical issues linked to the study
Describe a nursing theory
Describe methods of data analysis
Describe and discuss the nursing research
Present, discuss and defend the approved thesis at a seminar
Critically examine another thesis presented at the Thesis seminar
Carry out an approved maturity exam

Location and time

Spring and Autumn 2025

Materials

see course NU21TH01,

Teaching methods

Increasingly independent work, with the help of a supervisor
- collect and describe background information for the study
- desribe a theoretical framework for the study
- describe methods of data analysis
- collect data for the thesis, with consideration to the necessary ethical issues linked to the study
- present the methodological part of the thesis and show examples of the results at an intermediary seminar
Lecture and seminars

Employer connections

Presentation at intermediary seminar in September 2024 and presentation of the final thesis in December 2025

Completion alternatives

Approved manuscript for intermediary seminar, attendance at intermediary seminar and proved manuscript for the thesis presentation . pass/fail in the maturity exam

Student workload

12 ECTS= 324 h

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See separate framework for evaluation

Assessment methods and criteria

Pass/Fail
See practical guide to thesis writing
The manuscript for Intermediary seminar shall include following chapters:
Introduction
Background of the study
Theoretical framework
Aim, purpose
Method
Sampling/material
Data collection
Data analysis
Ethical issues
Examples of the result

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

See practical guide for thesis writing for grades 0-5 for final thesis.

Qualifications

Thesis Plan and Seminar

Further information

Only for degree students