UOGP063 Critical Care Nursing

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
MUDr. Ivana Volfová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
MUDr. Ivana Volfová, Ph.D.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course combines theoretical and practical lessons. It integrates into the complex of clinical nursing courses. It familiarizes the student with potentially life-threatening clinical conditions commonly encountered across various domains of health care. The course also provides an overview of life support procedures and pertinent nursing care (including prevention of complications) in emergency departments, resuscitation departments and intensive care units. Learning outcomes: Professional knowledge: The student is able to describe signs and symptoms of critical and acute states (e.g., pulmonary embolism, cardiogenic shock, status epilepticus, polytrauma, acute renal failure etc.) Professional skills: The student is able to plan and provide care in particular critical and acute conditions using the nursing process methodology. General ability: The student independently takes nursing history in critical and acute states, diagnoses nursing problems, plans care and evaluates expected outcomes for the patient health status in an acute/emergency care setting. Competence: The student develops their capacity to implement the nursing process in critical and acute care conditions and is able to enhance the capacity with further study and clinical experience.
Syllabus
  • 1. Emergency department and traumatology in hospital settings. Objectives of care in emergency departments. Immediate resuscitation and life support for the critically ill and injured.
    2. Emergencies requiring immediate care: loss of consciousness, shock, bleeding, acute pain, intoxication and poisoning, burns, trauma, multiple trauma, evisceration of internal organs etc. Dying and death in emergency department.
    3. Prioritizing care in emergencies, initial assessment of patient status, interventions. Emergency dialysis. Transplantation. Continuous elimination methods.
    4. Diagnostic and therapeutic methods in the critically ill. Monitoring patients in acute care (pressure: intracranial, arterial, central venous, right heart catheterization, pulse oximetry, capnometry, analysis of blood gases, ECG etc.)
    5. NC (nursing care) in critical neurological conditions: injuries of the head and spinal cord, aneurysm, status epilepticus, intracerebral hemorrhage, cerebral vascular accident.
    6. NC in critical states in internal medicine: pulmonary, cardiac, gastrointestinal, endocrine, renal.
    7. NC in multiple organ dysfunction syndrome - critical states: burns, intravascular coagulation, shock.
    8. NC in diabetic coma.
    9. NC in patients with upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding.
    10. NC in patients with cerebral hemorrhage. NC in patients with acute electrolyte imbalance.
    11. NC in patients with acute disseminated intravascular coagulation.
    12. NC in emergency dialysis.
    13. NC in patients with acute chest and abdomen trauma.
    14. NC in patients with acute trauma of upper and lower extremities.
    15. NC in patients with multiple injuries.
Literature
    required literature
  • KOLEKTIV AUTORŮ. Sestra a urgentní stavy. Praha: Grada, 2009. info
  • KRUPOVÁ, L. Ošetřovatelská péče u akutních stavů. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. URL info
  • KOLEKTIV AUTORŮ. Sestra a urgentní stavy. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-80-247-2548-2. info
  • KAPOUNOVÁ, G. Ošetřovatelství intenzivní péči. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-1830-9. info
  • DOSTÁL, P. A KOL. Základy umělé plicní ventilace. Praha:Maxdorf, 2005. ISBN 80-7345-059-3. info
  • HANDL, P. Monitorování pacientů v anesteziologii,resuscitaci a intenzivní péči - vybrané kapitoly. Brno: IDVZP, 2004. ISBN 80-7013-378-3. info
  • CHROBOK, V., ASTL, J., KOMÍNEK, P. A KOL. Tracheostomie a koniotomie techniky, komplikace a ošetřovatelská péče. Praha: Maxdorf, 2004. ISBN 80-7345-031-3. info
  • ADAMS, B., HAROLD, C. E. Sestra a akutní stavy od A do Z. Praha: Grada, 1999. ISBN 80-7169-893-8. info
  • BOHUŠ, O. A KOL. Anesteziológia a intenzívna starostlivosť I. Martin: Osveta, 1992. ISBN 80-217-0436-5. info
    recommended literature
  • DRÁBKOVÁ, J. Polytrauma v intenzivní medicíně. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2002. ISBN 80-247-0419-6. info
  • BRODANOVÁ, A., ANDĚL, A. Infúzní terapie, parenterální a enterální výživa. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1994. ISBN 80-85623-60-9. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 7 HOD/SEM, Seminář 14 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
https://elearning.fvp.slu.cz/course/view.php?id=291
Attendance in a minimum of 80 per cent of seminars is required for completion. Students who could not attend a number of lessons for serious reasons will be assigned extra tasks.
Presentation of an assigned topic. Credits will be afforded after fulfilling all criteria.
Examination: written test, a minimum of 80 per cent correct answers.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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