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The subject is framed as theoretical and practical. Lectures concentrate on fundamentals of nursing - paradigm, history, holistic theory, human needs in context to nursing, the nursing process and other. The course emphasizes the teaching of nursing procedures and interventions in laboratory conditions and in clinical practice with a focus on managing complex nursing practices. Practical exercises enable students to gain basic manual skills and assurance of safe and quality implementation of nursing procedures and interventions in patients.
Aim of the course
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Mastering the knowledge and skills necessary for safe nursing practice
Care and satisfaction of individual patient´s needs;
Acquiring manual skills for implementation of individual nursing procedures;
Being aware of the consequences of unprofessional interventions in providing individual care.
Course completion requirements
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THE COURSE IS CONCLUDED WITH THE CREDIT AND THE ORAL EXAM.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANTING OF THE CREDIT:
Only two absences are acceptable in seminars in practical training classrooms, and during nursing clinical practice (absence because of a sickness is acceptable).
THE EXAM:
The exam is oral and includes all the topics taught.
The conditions for passing clinical nursing practice:
The condition to be able to fulfil clinical practice is to accomplish all required exercises and interventions in the lab and medical certificates to carry out practical training in a health care facility and immunization against transmissible diseases according to valid law.
In case of pandemic restriction, the exam will be in the form of online test in Moodle
Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Jan Neugebauer, Ph.D., MBA (25.09.2023)
BASIC STUDY LITERATURE:
JIRKOVSKÝ, D. et al. Nursing procedures and interventions: textbook for bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes [DVD-ROM]. 1st English ed. Prague: Motol University Hospital, 2014. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. ISBN 978-80-87347-16-4.
OPTIONAL LITERATURE:
Kantor D. (2019). Lippincott visual nursing : a guide to diseases skills and treatments (Third). Wolters Kluwer.
Lippincott L. (2019). Lippincott nursing procedures (8th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Taylor T. A. (2015). Fundamentals of nursing made incredibly easy! (2nd ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Potter, P. (2022). Clinical nursing skills and techniques. Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-323-70863-0
Last update: Mgr. Jan Neugebauer, Ph.D., MBA (24.09.2023)
Volitelná literatura:
Kantor D. (2019). Lippincott visual nursing : a guide to diseases skills and treatments (Third). Wolters Kluwer.
Lippincott L. (2019). Lippincott nursing procedures (8th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Taylor T. A. (2015). Fundamentals of nursing made incredibly easy! (2nd ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Requirements to the exam
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THE EXAM:
Is in a form of an online test. The test will be placed in Moodle. The test contains closed selection questions. The student has three attempts to pass the test.
Test Topic:
The definition of health, basic concepts, education towards health, forms and significance of prevention.
The reactions to illness and its experiencing.
The principles of communication with a patient, the terms evaluation and devaluation.
Verbal and nonverbal communication.
Management in general and specifics for medical facilities.
Positioning of the patient, the importance of positioning and security of medical positioning, the use of aids to present bed sores (decubitus ulcer).
Food serving principles, diet system and its importance, the process of probe insertion – reasons.
Pressure injuries – their stages, cause and prevention.
Pressure injuries nursing care, modern trends in the treatment of wounds.
General principles of disinfection and sterilization and its types. The terms asepsis, MRSA, nosocomial infections.
The secure collection the biological material for examination, principles of collection.
Types of medicaments, principles of administration and ordering, opiate management.
Patient pre-operative nursing care, and care during an operation. Bandage application on legs and its importance.
Patient post-operative nursing care, possible complications.
The principles of chemotherapy, accompanying symptoms, special care of chemotherapy patients.
Problematic pain, principles of administering analgesics and opiates, evaluation of pain.
Voluntaries in the hospital.
Home care. Palliative and hospice care.
Rights and obligations of patients - their presentation and application.
Care of the elderly and chronically ill, explaining the significance and issues of polymorbidity.
The basics of nursing in psychiatry, individualization of care in general and in relation to mental disease.
Patient needs and their typology. Surveying and needs support.
Types of wounds and their characteristics. The principles of bandaging, types of bandage material. Surgical instruments.
Types of drainage and caring for drains.
The nursing process and its importance. Nursing documentation.
Application of intramuscular injections, potential complications. Application of intravenous injections, potential complications.
Application of intradermal and subcutaneous injections, potential complications. Insulin treatment.
The procedure related to ensuring patient hygiene with respect to the extent of patient self-sufficiency. Special mouth hygiene.
The principles of measuring physiological functions (TK, TT, P, D).
The control of consciousness, principles of care for the patient with consciousness disorders.
Principles and importance of patient conditioning; exercises in bed, helping the patient to become self-sufficient. ADL – evaluation of daily activity in the areas of hygiene, feeding, and locomotion.
Making a dry and comfortable bed. Immobilization syndrome.
Principles of infusion preparation, potential complications.
Principles of transfusion preparation and administration, transfusion components, control system (cross-match test, bedside test, biological test), potential post transfusion complications.
Monitoring bowel and bladder emptying, incontinence and its causes, the care of patients with incontinence.
Syllabus
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CONTENT:
SEMINARS:
Intravenous Therapy: i.v. injection, i.v. accesses for intermittent and continuous infusion and care for them, infusion rate and infusion regulation, administration of total parenteral nutrition, blood transfusion administration, postoperative autotransfusion, administration of chemotherapy;
Support of oxygenation: Oxygen delivery in all ways to children and adults, maintenance of free and open airway, airway management and care of the airway, artificial ventilation and care of these patients.
Closed chest drainage care;
Nasogastric tube insertion, including nasal intubation control, irrigation of NG tube, removing of NG tube. Enteral nutrition: insertion of feeding tube, administration of medication into a tube;
Changes in colon emptying: removal of stool impaction, colostomy care, colostomy irrigation;
Changes in urinary excretion: male and female catheterization, urostomy, continuous urinary catheter irrigation, suprapubic catheter;
Preparing the patient for surgery: preoperative evaluation, preoperative education, physical preparation.
Post-operative care: immediate post-operative care at recovery room; vital functions during the recovery phase, surgical wound care, drainage systems - monitoring and measuring, removal of stitches and clamps.
