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Neurology and Patient Care
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:30.08.2021 16:20:08
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | NUNK_019 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Neurology | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jānis Mednieks | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 13 Pilsonu Street, VSIA P.Stradiņa KUS, Block No. 37; 2 Hipokrata Street, Unit 7, Room No. 901, neuro rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67069653; +371 67536540 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Normal anatomy, functional physiology, internal and surgical diseases and patient care. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with knowledge on objective of care for neurological patients and treatment principles in inpatient and outpatient practice. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to neurology: Tasks of the neurology discipline. Structure and clinical anatomy of the nervous system. Tasks and stages of neurological care. Additional examinations in neurology | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 2 | Neural regulation of movement act and syndromes of movement disorders: Paresis and paralysis, their signs. Cranial muscle movement disorders: paresis of eyeball and mimic muscles, bulbar and pseudobulbar syndrome. Brainstem impairment symptoms | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| 3 | Extrapyramidal movement disorder syndromes: Parkinson’s disease and hyperkinesis. Balance and coordination disorders: ataxias and vertigo. Tasks of care for patients with movement and motion disorders | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| 4 | Sensory systems and their disorders: vision, hearing, olfaction, taste, peripheral sensory disorders and pain. Transverse spinal cord lesion syndromes | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Brain hemisphere damage symptoms. Dementias, language and other higher-order function disorders. Tasks of care for patients with higher-order neural activity disorders | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Disturbance in the blood supply to the brain: types, risk factors and prophylaxis, clinical manifestations. Stroke unit operation principles and tasks, tasks of patient monitoring and care. Stroke prophylaxis tasks at primary care level and at different stroke care stages | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| 7 | Peripheral nervous system diseases, their manifestations. Reasons and prophylaxis of back aches, principles, methods of analgesia and pain care protocols; Acute pain care service: led by doctors and nurses; Stable postsurgical pain | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Headaches, their types. Warning symptoms of headaches. Risk factors and prophylaxis of primary headaches. Reasons, types and clinical signs of neural infections. Tasks and prophylaxis of neural infections | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Head and spinal cord injury. Principles of care for a patients with a transverse brain lesion. Evaluation of the degree of unconsciousness and coma. Paroxysmal conditions: epileptic and non-epileptic seizures. Care and treatment principles, emergency assistance during a seizure | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Muscular diseases and neuromuscular junction diseases. Myopathies, myosites, myasthenia. Evaluation and care principles of patients with a neuromuscular disease | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Peculiarities of care for gerontological patients in neurology. CNS function disorders caused by somatic diseases. Evaluation of and care for patients with acute confusion | Classes | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 12 | Clinical manifestations, complications of demyelinating diseases. Role of a nurse in care and education of sclerotic patients | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 13 | Neurodegenerative diseases, their clinical manifestations. Parkinson's disease, dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Evaluation and principles of care for neurological patients with progressing respiratory failure, swallowing disorders. Signs, evaluation and principles of care for autonomic dysfunction | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The student independently studies the literature offered in the study programme by creating a summary of obtained information. Participation in discussions on specific clinical cases, analysis of therapy, prevention and care. Preparation and analysis of clinical cases and care protocols during training. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | a. Attendance of classes and activity during classes b. Volume of theoretical and practical knowledge in the theory test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | To master knowledge on objective of care of neurological patients and treatment principles in outpatient practice. To plan, provide and evaluate care appropriate for a neurological patient. The student will have obtained knowledge allowing: • to understand the specifics of neurological diseases; • to know the most common reasons and mechanisms of neurological syndromes and diseases; • to evaluate complaints of patients about symptoms of a nervous system damage, its significance and impact in clinical practice. | ||||||||
| Skills: | The student will be able: • to use the obtained knowledge in case for neurological patients, to recognise characteristic complaints, to collect data in a targeted way; • to formulate care problems, to plan care for a neurological patient; • to recognise patients with visual, hearing and speaking disorders, to establish full communication; • to use creative approach in solving different problems of a neurological patient and to integrate knowledge and skills of other clinical courses in care for a neurological patient; • to provide psychoemotional support to the patient and his/her immediate family, to educate them. When mastering the study course, students will master evaluation of neurological diseases, course and prognosis of the disease; skills to use the obtained knowledge in care for neurological patients and understanding of the specifics of diseases of neurological patients, recognition of the most characteristic complaints and ability to conduct a basic examination of neurological patients, as well as formulation of care problems, planning of care for a neurological patient. In the study course, students will master the skills of establishing fully-fledged communication with a neurological patient, to provide psychoemotional support to the patient and his/her immediate family, as well as skills to educate the patient and their immediate family. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The student will be able: • to participate in planning of care for a neurological patient; • to determine, in cooperation with other medical practitioners, the care tactics for an individual patient based on a psychosocial approach; • to evaluate short-term and long-term effects and prognostic tasks of treatment and prevention activities for patients with nervous system diseases. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Douglas J.Gould, PhD. Pocket Neuroanatomy. 2014. | ||||||||
| 2 | Ināra Logina, Elvīra Smeltere. Neiroloģija shēmās. Avots, 2009. 61 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | Lange Medical book "Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment". 2022. | ||||||||
| 4 | Fundamentals of Neurology. An Illustrated Guide. 2nd Edition, 2017. | ||||||||
| 5 | Ārvalstu studentiem/ For international students: | ||||||||
| 6 | Douglas J.Gould, PhD. Pocket Neuroanatomy. 2014. | ||||||||
| 7 | Wilkinson, Judith M. Treas, Leslie S.Barnett, Karen L. Smith, Mable H. 2016. Fundamentals of Nursing. F.A.Davis. EBSCOhost | ||||||||
| 8 | Lange Medical book "Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment". 2022. | ||||||||
| 9 | Fundamentals of Neurology. An Illustrated Guide. 2nd Edition, 2017. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Harrison's Neurology in Clinical Medicine, 2006 | ||||||||
| 2 | Neurorehabilitation Technology, 2016. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Medscape. Available from: http://emedicine.medscape.com | ||||||||
| 2 | UpToDate. Available from: https://www.uptodate.com/home | ||||||||
