Syllabus
Second study year, summer semester
GENERAL SURGERY AND PLASTIC SURGERY
-Concept of surgical nursing
-Basic investigating methods in Surgery
-Asepsis and antisepsis?
-Anaesthesia, general and local
-Blood transfusion
-Operating theathre
-Preoperative and postoperative care and complications
-Rehabilitation in Surgery
-Specialities of nursing care in plastic Surgery
Lectures 1. Introduction into the surgery, surgical specialities, basic surgical terminology. Basic rules in the first aid, haemostasis.
Types and characteristics of wounds, infection in surgery, prevention of tetanus. Asepsis, antisepsis, sterilisatio. 2. Surgical team, surgical instrument, prepare of patient to the surgery. Basic principles of patient´s post-op care and follow up. 3. Plastic surgery - introduction and basic subspecialities. Congenital disorders. Skin tumours. 4. Closure of defects, hand surgery, microsurgery, replantation. Aesthetic surgery.
Practical training 1. Acknowledgement with surgery, types of surgeries. Surgical indications- explanation. Main rules of cardiac and pulmonary resuscitation. First aid in bleeding, classification of wounds. Pathogenesis of infection course, propagation of infection and prevention. Explanation of asepsis and antisepsis concept. Acknowledgement with sterilisation unit. 2. Arrangement of operating theatres. Emergency operating theatre. The job description of all staff categories at the operating theatre. Pre-op prepare of patient. Post-op care, post-op complications. 3. Specific surgeries at the paediatric department. Congenital disorders and skin tumours in childhood. 4. Nurse care in patients after replantation and muscle flap transfer.
THORACIC, ABDOMINAL, VASCULAR AND ENDOCRINOSURGERY
-The basic terminology
-Principles of operational treatment in chest, abdomen, vascular surgery and endocrinosurgery
-Specialities of nursing care in injury
-Specialities of nursing care in breast diseases
-Specialities of nursing care in abdominal surgery (hernias, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, gall bladder,pancreas, spleen, liver)
-Sudden abdominal incidents
-Specialities of nursing care in vascular surgery
-Specialities of nursing care in endocrinosurgery
Lectures : 1. Hernias. 2. Diseases of oesophagus, stomach and small intestine. 3. Diseaes of colon and rektum. 4. Diseases of gall bladder and bile ducts, liver, spleen and pancreas. 5. Sudden abdominal incidents. 6. Vascular surgery, endocrinosurgery.
Annotation
Surgical nursing is a component of the Clinical nursing module in bachelor education. It consist of teaching in 7 basic surgical disciplines : surgery, orthopaedics, urology, cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, plastic surgery and burn medicine. Surgical nursing is lectured in the summer semester of the second study year.
General Surgery and Plastic surgery is guaranteed by Clinic of Plastic Surgery, special surgery is teached in Clinic of Surgery. It provides an overview of typical clinical symptoms, the basic diagnostic procedures based on physical examination and imaging methods.
Surgical nursing is focused on presentation of the non-operative and operative treatment of diseases. The theoretical part of the subject is realized by the form of lectures, the practical part by the form of seminars and practical exercises.
The subject is lectured in the summer semester of the second study year and is concluded by credit.