Internal Medicine

Module:

Nursing Care

ECTS:

10

Contact hours – lectures:

90

Contact hours – seminar:

0

Contact hours – clinical exercises:

0

Contact hours – clinical practice:

180

Holder of subject:

Sanela Pivač, Lecturer

Year of study:

Second

Contact hours – lectures:

30

Contact hours – seminar:

0

Contact hours – clinical exercises:

0

Contact hours – clinical practice:

0

Holder of subject:

Sanela Pivač, Lecturer

Education providers:

• Marija Mulej, Lecturer
• Katarina Osolnik, Senior Lecturer

Level of study:

First Bologna cycle professional education study program

Semester:

Winter

Language:

Slovene/English

Subject specific competences:

The student:

• learns about the symptoms and signs of a patient with an internal disease.
• learns about risk factors for internal diseases (smoking, drug abuse, occupational exposure, obesity...) and ways of eliminating them.
• learns about the basic diagnostic tests in internal medicine and is able to perform some of them (measuring blood pressure, ECG, spirometry, PEF, 6-minute walk test).
• becomes familiar with ways of preparing a patient for diagnostic examinations in internal medicine (endoscopy, puncture, biopsy).
• learns about the principles of bacteriological diagnostics, including tuberculosis, and is able to take microbiological samples.
• learns the principles of treatment with inhaled medicines and how to implement it.
• learns the principles of oxygen treatment and how to implement it.
• becomes familiar with rehabilitation principles of patients with internal diseases.
• application of nursing care theories in community nursing;
• application of work methods in outpatient clinic nursing care;
• utilization of nursing care procedures with documentation in outpatient care;
• application of work performance principles to ensure high-quality and effective nursing interventions in outpatient clinics;
• individual community nursing plans for all treated persons;
• use of nursing diagnoses in community nursing.
   

Mandatory and recommended references:

Mandatory references:

• Krajnc I, Pečovnik Balon B. Interna medicina. Maribor: Univerza v Mariboru, Visoka zdravstvena šola; 2000.

Recommended references:

• Kocijančič A, Mrevlje F, Štajer D, et al. Interna medicina. 3. izd. Ljubljana: Littera Picta; 2005.

Study obligations:

• 30% obligatory attendance at lectures

Assessment methods:

• written examination (100%)