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Placement of Clinical Care

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:11.00
Study Course Accepted:11.03.2024 11:53:03
Study Course Information
Course Code:MDAK_075LQF level:Level 7
Credit Points:2.00ECTS:3.00
Branch of Science:Clinical Medicine; AnatomyTarget Audience:Medicine
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:Evija Melbārde
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:Department of Nursing and Obstetric Care
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:Riga, 26a Anniņmuižas boulevard, mdakatrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061568
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
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Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, microbiology, basics of clinical care.
Objective:
Improve and consolidate theoretical knowledge and practical skills acquired within the study course “Fundamentals of Clinical Care” in the 3rd year of studies.
Assessment
Unaided Work:
To follow the working hours of the internship and to work in full extent, to fill in the documentation of the internship, feedback on the qualitative and organisational content of the internship.
Assessment Criteria:
The assessment is based on the amount of knowledge acquired and the quality of the skills provided in the internship program. In order to obtain a successful assessment of the internship, the student must acquire at least 80% of the intended skills program. The final mark of the exam accumulated from the weighted average (according to the assessment protocol).
Final Examination (Full-Time):Exam
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:To assess the patient's condition and practically conduct clinical procedures, to asses the vital signs; oxygen supply; to prepare and administer the prescribed medication to the patient, provide intravenous access with a peripheral venous catheter and perform intravenous drug administration using suitable equipment. Make an accurate blood, urine, stool samples collection for laboratory tests, perform procedures related to the gastrointestinal tract (inserting nasogastric tube, enteral feeding), to administer procedures related to urinary tract (bladder catheterisation), to document the appointed and administered procedures.
Skills:Practical skills in performing clinical procedures including: to asses the vital signs; oxygen supply; enteral and parenteral medication, laboratory examination, patient preparation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in intern and surgical profile units. Students will be able to assess the vital signs, provide oxygen therapy, to insert and remove NG tube, to perform bladder catheterization for women and men.
Competencies:Ability to examine and assess the patients. Ability to asses the vital signs and provide oxygen therapy. Student will be able to make and justify various drug delivery techniques. Will be able to carry out procedures that affect the digestive tract (inserting NG tube; enteral feeding), urogenital tract (female and male bladder catheterisation).
Bibliography
No.Reference
Required Reading
1Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 104. Rīgā 2016. gada 16. februārī (prot. Nr.8 21.§) “Noteikumi par higiēniskā un pretepidēmiskā režīma pamatprasībām ārstniecības iestādē”
2Klīniskās procedūras un pacientu drošība / Dzintra Puriņa, Ināra Upmale. Rīga : Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Sarkanā Krusta medicīnas koledža, 2018
3Clinical nursing skills & techniques / [edited by] Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter, Wendy R. Ostendorf. 8th ed. St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier, 2013
4Gardovska J. redakcijā. „Ķirurģija”. Rīga, 2013
5estudijas.rsu.lv. - ārstniecisko manipulāciju video
6Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students:
7Clinical nursing skills & techniques / [edited by] Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter, Wendy R. Ostendorf. 8th ed. St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier, 2013
Additional Reading
1Perry, Anne Griffin. Mosby's pocket guide to nursing skills & procedures / Maryland Heights, Mo., 2011
2Smith, Sandra F. Clinical nursing skills : basic to advanced skills / Boston [etc.], 2012
Other Information Sources
1http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/11/1281.full
2http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/health-professionals/clinical-guidel…