Neurology

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:

10

Contact hours – seminar:

0

Contact hours – clinical exercises:

0

Contact hours – clinical practice:

0

Holder of subject:

Sanela Pivač, Lecturer

Education providers:

• Dr Tomaž Pogačnik, Professor

Level of study:

First Bologna cycle professional education study program

Semester:

Winter

Language:

Slovene/English

Subject specific competences:

The student:

• Knowledge on the structure of central and peripheral nervous system;
• Knowledge on physiology and pathophysiology of the nervous system;
• Acquaintance with most important neurological disorders (etiology & pathogenesis, features, clinical course and prognosis, diagnosis, therapy);
• Acquaintance with emergency states in neurology;
• Acquaintance with neurorehabilitation and occupational therapy in neurology;
• Knowledge on nursing principles of neurological patients (specificities of individual diseases).

Mandatory and recommended references:

Mandatory references:

• Lavrič A. Klinična nevrološka preiskava, 3rd ed. Ljubljana: Med Razgl 1996; 35 (Suppl 4): 1-136.
• Tetičkovič E. Klinična nevrologija. Maribor: Založba Obzorja; 1997.

Recommended references:

• Common neurological symptoms & conditions – a guide for non-professionals. Brighton: The DARE Foundation; 2002.
• Donaghy M. Neurology. Oxford, New York: Medical Publications; 2005.
• Marsden CD, Fowler TJ. Clinical neurology, 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1998.
• Weiner WJ, Goetz CG (eds). Neurology for the non-neurologist, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company; 2004.
• Wilkinson IMS. Essential neurology, 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Sicence Ltd.; 2005.

Study obligations:

• 30% obligatory attendance at lectures

Assessment methods:

• written examination (100%)