Syllabus
1. Organization of intensive care, prehospital care, Emergency medical service, intensive care units (ICUs), CCU, high and low dependency units, palliative care (hospices), their links and relations, communication, education system.
2. Emergency, urgent and critical statuses, their characteristics, scoring systems in intensive and critical care
3. Ethical pitfalls of intensive care, prognosing, categorization of patient in intensive care (full treatment, withholding, withdrawing, DNR rules, basic care), brain death, transplant program, care for organ donor.
4. Basic principles of nursing in ICU ? documentation, communication with critically ill or injured patient and his/her family.
5. Nutrition of critically ill patient, principles of airway care, care for vascular catheters, urinary catheters. Medical drugs administering, biological samples taking.
6. Principles of intensive care for patient with disorder or failure of consciousness, blood circulation, respiration or homeostasis.
7. Principles of intensive care and nursing of polytraumatized patients, patients suffering of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock. Multiple organ dysfunction or failure syndromes (MODS, MOFS).
8. ?Burn out? syndrome and it´s prevention.
Annotation
Main emphasis is put on organization of intensive care and its incorporation into the health care system. Special attention is paid to ethical problems and rules of nursing on ICU and CCU in patients suffering of disorders of failure of basic vital functions (respiration, blood circulation, consciousness, and homeostasis).
Important part is problem of ?burn out? syndrome and its prevention