Nursing care of internal disease patients
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| Module: |
Nursing care |
| ECTS: |
5 |
| Contact hours – lectures: |
80 |
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| Contact hours – clinical practice: |
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| Holder of subject: |
Dr Sanela Pivač, Assistant Professor
Katja Vrankar, Lecturer
Marija Mulej, Lecturer
Katarina Osolnik, Senior Lecturer |
| Year of study: |
Second |
Internal medicine with neurology, dermatology and venereology, infectious diseases and transfusion medicine
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| Contact hours – lectures: |
50 |
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| Contact hours – clinical practice: |
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| Holder of subject: |
Katarina Osolnik, Senior Lecturer
Marija Mulej, Lecturer |
| Education providers: |
- Katarina Osolnik, Senior Lecturer
- Marija Mulej, Lecturer
- Dr Tanja Planinšek Ručigaj, Assistant Professor
- Dr Tomaž Pogačnik, Professor
- Dr Bojana Beović, Associate Professor
- Irena Bricl, Senior Lecturer
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| Level of study: |
First Bologna cycle professional education study program |
| Semester: |
Winter |
| Language: |
Slovene/English
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| Subject-specific competences: |
Students:
- learn about the symptoms and signs of a patient with internal disease;
- learn about the risk factors for internal disease (smoking, drug abuse, occupational exposure, obesity...) and ways of eliminating them;
- learn about the basic diagnostic tests in internal medicine and are able to perform some of them (measuring blood pressure, ECG, spirometry, PEF, 6-minute walk test);
- become familiar with the ways of preparing a patient for diagnostic examinations in internal medicine (endoscopy, puncture, biopsy);
- learn about the principles of bacteriological diagnostics, including tuberculosis, and are able to take microbiological samples;
- learn the principles of treatment with inhaled medicines and how to implement it;
- learn the principles of oxygen therapy and how to implement it;
- become familiar with rehabilitation principles of patients with internal disease.
Knowledge and understanding:
- application of nursing care theories in community nursing;
- application of work methods in outpatient clinic nursing care;
- application 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.
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| Mandatory references: |
- Krajnc, I. & Pečovnik Balon, B., 2000. Interna medicina. Maribor: Univerza v Mariboru, Visoka zdravstvena šola.
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| Recommended references: |
- Kocijančič, A., Mrevlje, F., Štajer , D., et al., 2005. Interna medicina. 3. izd. Ljubljana: Littera Picta.
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| Study obligations: |
- 50% obligatory attendance at lectures
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| Assessment methods: |
- written examination (100%)
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