Syllabus
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;
- Basic sterile techniques of wet wound therapy. Wound care: dry sterile dressing change, wet sterile dressing change, transparent dressing change;
- 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.
Annotation
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.