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Clinical Social Work with Infectious Disease Patients
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:11.08.2022 13:30:08
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | IUDK_036 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Infectious Diseases | Target Audience: | Social Welfare and Social Work | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ludmila Vīksna | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Infectology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 3 Linezera Street, idk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67014777 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Biology, anatomy, biochemistry, parasitology, physiology, microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, internal diseases and pharmacology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide basic knowledge about infectious diseases, with the special emphasis on factors reducing quality of life and options to prevent these factors; to give knowledge about principles of control of infectious diseases’ transmission; to give understanding about potential impact of infectious diseases on the quality of life of each individual as well as on public health in general; to increase awareness about bio-terrorism and travellers’ health problems; to learn how to analyse the impact of infectious diseases on individual, to plan social work methods and techniques for improving patients’ quality of life. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Global development and safety in the context of infectious diseases. Introduction to infectious diseases. Infectious diseases in the context of all the other diseases. The prevalence of infections in the world and in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 2 | Principles of anti-epidemic measures. Operational management of emergency situations related to infectious diseases in Latvia and in the world. Bioterrorism. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 3 | Hospitalisation rules and principles of an in-patient hospital for infectious diseases. Practical aspects of sterilisation and disinfection. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 4 | Introduction to the decontamination of medical devices (cleaning, disinfection, sterilisation, process control, regulatory laws and regulations). | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Vaccination: routine, epidemiological indications, etc. Specific conditions for its implementation – storage, administration. Vaccination side-effects, procedure for their registration. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Healthcare-associated infections, including hospital infections. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Blood-borne diseases and their role in the quality of life of the individual and in public health. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Aetiology of respiratory tract infections, characteristics of their development, principles of diagnosis, treatment and prevention, description of potential complications. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Characteristics of the disease progression in HIV/AIDS patients and the principles of care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Tropical and travellers’ diseases. Health provision aspects for travellers. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Epidemiology and restriction of tuberculosis (TB), including diagnosing, registering, reporting and basic principles of treatment and care. | Classes | 2.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 12 | Infectious diseases having movement and swallowing disorders (poliomyelitis, botulism, diphtheria, etc.), diagnosis, treatment and care principles. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 13 | Visual signs of infectious diseases. | Lectures | 2.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 14 | Practical aspects of the chaplain’s work at a healthcare institution. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Global development and safety in the context of infectious diseases. Introduction to infectious diseases. Infectious diseases in the context of all the other diseases. The prevalence of infections in the world and in Latvia. | Lectures | 0.50 | clinical base | |||||
| 3 | Hospitalisation rules and principles of an in-patient hospital for infectious diseases. Practical aspects of sterilisation and disinfection. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Vaccination: routine, epidemiological indications, etc. Specific conditions for its implementation – storage, administration. Vaccination side-effects, procedure for their registration. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Blood-borne diseases and their role in the quality of life of the individual and in public health. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Aetiology of respiratory tract infections, characteristics of their development, principles of diagnosis, treatment and prevention, description of potential complications. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Characteristics of the disease progression in HIV/AIDS patients and the principles of care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Tropical and travellers’ diseases. Health provision aspects for travellers. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Epidemiology and restriction of tuberculosis (TB), including diagnosing, registering, reporting and basic principles of treatment and care. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| 12 | Infectious diseases having movement and swallowing disorders (poliomyelitis, botulism, diphtheria, etc.), diagnosis, treatment and care principles. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 13 | Visual signs of infectious diseases. | Lectures | 0.50 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Preliminary preparation for each practical class (relevant topic); individual study report on the chosen topic. At the end of the study course, fill in the course evaluation survey. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Independent work: report, assessment criteria – compliance of the content of the report with the selected/chosen topic; design of the report; student’s individual input, contribution or work invested; level of student’s knowledge evaluated by the lecturer in discussions with the student. Exam: activities during classes and assessment of individual work - 50%, multiple-choice test - 50%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will be able to classify infectious diseases according to etiological factors, prevailing symptoms and level of disease severity, as well as according to impact of infectious diseases on quality of patients’ life; to explain or justify social work methods, measures and plan for an individual patient; will know legislation in Latvia as regards infectious diseases control and prophylaxis. | ||||||||
| Skills: | The students will be able to develop individual social care plan for a patient for the purpose of improvement of quality of life; to plan social work activities and coordinate them with the work of medical professionals; analyse legal documents in the context of existing legislation for control of infectious diseases. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To apply basic knowledge and skills of reasoning, logics and public speaking to communicate successfully with patients, their relatives and medical professionals as regards disease control and prevention and health promotion of infectious diseases and to provide patient social care in cooperation with patients, their relatives and medical experts, while respecting patients’ rights and norms of medical ethics; to assume the role of health promoter in the context of specific and non-specific prophylaxis of infectious diseases; to act according to existing legislation of Latvian Republic and European Union. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bennett J. E., Dolin R., Blaser M.J. Mandell Douglas and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 9th ed., Elsevier, 2020. | ||||||||
| 2 | Vīksna L. Infekcijas slimības. Rīga: Medicīnas apgāds; 2011. | ||||||||
| 3 | Fred F. Ferri. Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2019, Elsevier. | ||||||||
| 4 | Rekomendācijas par SARS-CoV-2 infekcijas un COVID-19 epidemioloģiju, diagnostiku, klīniskajām norisēm un komplikācijām. Valsts pētījumu programma. L.Vīksna, I.Tolmane un autoru kolektīvs. Rīga, 2021. gada marts. 227. lpp. | ||||||||
| 5 | Zeltiņa I., Zavadska D, Grope I., Aldiņš P., Savrasova L., Grāmatniece A., Žilde A. Praktiskas rekomendācijas vakcinācijai veseliem pieaugušajiem un riska grupu indivīdiem Latvijā. Rīga. Slimību profilakses un kontroles centrs; 2019 | ||||||||
| 6 | EASL recommendations on treatment of hepatitis C: Final update of the series. Journal of Hepatology 2020 vol. 73 pp.1170–1218. | ||||||||
| 7 | European AIDS Clinical Society Guidelines Version 10.1 October 2020. | ||||||||
| 8 | Madhukar Pai, Marcel A. Behr, et.al. Tuberculosis. NATURE REVIEWS | DISEASE PRIMERS, Article number: 16076 doi:10.1038/nrdp.2016.76 Published online 27 Oct 2016 | ||||||||
| 9 | Edward T Ryan, David R Hill, et.al. Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10th Edition, Elsevier, 2020. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Vīksna L. Ceļotāja veselības rokasgrāmata. Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds; 2002. | ||||||||
| 2 | Brunette G W, Kozarsky P E, Magill A J, Shlim D R. CDC Health Information for International Travel 2010. Philadelphia: Mosby. 2009. | ||||||||
| 3 | Laimborelioze. Diagnostikas un ārstēšanas klīniskās rekomendācijas pieaugušajiem. Autors: Latvijas Infektologu, Hepatologu un HIV/AIDS speciālistu asociācija. Izdevējs: Slimību profilakses un kontroles centrs. 2020. | ||||||||
| 4 | Jay Keystone, Phyllis Kozarsky, et.al. Travel Medicine, 4th ed., Elsevier, 2018. | ||||||||
| 5 | Vīksna L. Vakcinācija: aktīvā specifiskā imūnprofilakse. Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds; 2008. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.uptodate.com | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.who.int/ | ||||||||
| 3 | https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com | ||||||||
| 4 | https://www.clinicalkey.com | ||||||||
| 5 | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rsub | ||||||||
| 6 | http://search.ebscohost.com/ | ||||||||
