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Patients Care

Class at Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen |
EAP0102250

Syllabus

All the students are obliged to pass a practice in the range of min. 60 hours in a hospital abroad (prefferably in their homecountry).

This practice must be carried out during the summer vacation after your second year.

When completing the practice, students are asked to deliver the confirmation to English Study Department (scan or photo via e-mail is enough).

Sylabus and Confirmation can also be downloaded from: Lékařská fakulta v Plzni | Univerzita Karlova (cuni.cz)

Those, who will pass this practice, should inform the hospital that the following knowledge and skills should be gained:

Organization of nursing care at the ward

Approach of the staff members to the patient

Care of patient´s beds and bed tables

Toaleting, grooming, dressing, feeding, bathing, and hygiene of the patient. Dietary system.

Skin and mouth care. Decubiti prevention and treatment

Care of immobile patients

Basic physical rehabilitation

Heart rate, blood pressure and temperature measurement

RBC sedimentation measurement

Urine examination at the ward

Taking of the biological samples for laboratory investigation

Disinfecting at the ward, instrument sterilization

Assistance at the ward rounds and doctor´s procedures

Oxygen therapy

Critical care nursing

Nursing of terminally ill patients

Drug administration (peroral, intradermal, subdermal, intramuscular, but not intravenous – only in direct supervision)

Annotation

Bedding and adjustment, diet regimen, disinfection, sterilization, blood collection, body temperature measurement, application of personal medicines, preparation of infusion solutions, prevention of pressure ulcers, diuresis measurement, principles of respiratory and circulatory resuscitation, documentation of nurses, application of oxygen, principles of hygiene, records selected drugs.