FVPAA016 Critical Care Nursing

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Ivana Volfová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D.
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 is designed as theoretical-practical complex. It is included in the complex of clinical nursing courses. It familiarizes with clinical conditions which may constitute immediate danger to human health and which health care workers in all areas of medical care face. It explains the therapy, specific life-saving procedures and adequate nursing (complication-preventing) care for patients at acute, resuscitation and intensive care wards.
Syllabus
  • 1. Urgent and traumatology ward in the hospital. Main goal of care at urgent ward. Immediate efficient resuscitation and stabilization of critically ill or injured persons.
    2. Urgent conditions requiring hospital care: unconsciousness, shock, bleeding, acute pain, intoxication, burns, traumas, polytraumas, evisceration, etc. Dying and death at urgent ward.
    3. Determination of priorities in care for patient in urgent condition, initial assessment of condition and intervention. Acute dialysis. Transplant (of heart, kidney, liver, etc.), transplant program. Continuous elimination methods.
    4. Diagnostic and examination methods for critically ill persons. Monitoring of patients in acute care (pressure: intracranial, arterial, central venous, right-side heart catheterization, pulse oxymetry, capnography, blood gas analysis, ECG, etc.).
    5. Nursing care for patients at artificial lung ventilation, pronated position. Hygienic care for patients.
    6. NC (nursing care) in critical neurological conditions: head and spinal cord injury, aneurysm, epileptic condition, intracerebral hemorrhage, CMP.
    7. NC in critical internal conditions: lung, heart, gastrointestinal, endocrine, renal.
    8. NC in multi-system failure - critical conditions: burns, intravascular coagulation, shock conditions.
    9. NC in diabetic coma.
    10. NC for patient with bleeding in upper part of gastrointestinal tract.
    11. NC for patient with brain hemorrhage. NC for patient with acute electrolyte imbalance.
    12. NC for patient with acute disseminated intravascular coagulation.
    13. NC in acute dialysis.
    14. NC for patient with acute chest and abdomen trauma.
    15. NC for patient with acute trauma of extremities.
    16. NC for patient with polytrauma.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2021.
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