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Infectious Diseases and Patient Care
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:29.08.2024 11:14:33
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_091 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Infectious Diseases | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Baiba Rozentāle | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Institute of Public Health | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Kronvalda bulvāris 9, svek rsu[pnkts]lv, LV-1010, +371 67338307 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 11 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 22 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Biology, anatomy, histology, biochemistry, parasitology, physiology, epidemiology, microbiology, virology, immunology, pharmacology infectious diseases and internal medicine. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide the basics of infectious disease and the principles of controlling the spread of infectious diseases, to promote understanding of the potential impact of infectious diseases on the quality of life of an individual and health care and public health in general, to strengthen students' understanding and interest in research in this field; prevention issues. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases in outpatient care. Variety of investigated material, logistics, specific and non-specific diagnostic methods. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 2 | Differential diagnosis of infectious diseases with fever in outpatient health care. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 3 | Acute retroviral syndrome, its clinical manifestations and diagnostic possibilities in the outpatient stage. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 4 | Differential diagnosis of infectious diseases with diarrhoea and outpatient diagnostic and treatment options. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Differential diagnosis of exanthematic infectious diseases. | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Demonstrations of putting on and taking off personal protective equipment, including special protective clothing, necessary protective equipment for the care of unclear outpatients. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Outpatient diagnostic and treatment options for sexually transmitted diseases. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Infectious mononucleosis-like syndrome, diagnosis, clinic and treatment. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Differential diagnosis of skin diseases in outpatient practice. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Differential diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory viral infections of the upper respiratory tract in outpatient practice. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Enterovirus infection, diversity of its clinical forms and tactics in outpatient practice. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 12 | Diagnosis, differential diagnosis, clinical forms, treatment and prevention of tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme borreliosis. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 13 | Immunoprophylaxis and tactics of rabies and tetanus in outpatient care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 14 | Outpatient care of liver disease patients. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 15 | Infectious diseases in immunocompromised patients. Risk groups for immunocompromised patients. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 16 | Intestinal dysfunction caused by helminthiasis, diagnosis and treatment options. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual work – independent work with the latest literature sources. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Student's work and knowledge tests during classes. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will be able to evaluate infectious diseases according to their significance for public health; will know the types of spread and the typical symptoms of infectious diseases; as well as specific laboratory diagnostic methods and treatment and prevention options. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to analyse normative documents in the context of infectology, plan and control the work of medical staff, determining the content and form of necessary preventive measures; will be able to evaluate the indications and contraindications for vaccination and perform vaccination; to draw up medical documentation; will be able to evaluate the procedure for taking the biological material under investigation and sending it to the laboratory. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Adequate handling of infectious diseases in sporadic cases and outbreaks; to take the material to be examined from the patient and send it to the laboratory for specific diagnosis of infectious diseases; use personal protective equipment and isolate the patient in the pre-hospital stage; to operate in accordance with the regulatory enactments of the Republic of Latvia and the European Union. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Vīksna, L. Infekcijas slimības. Rīga: Medicīnas apgāds, 2011. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Mandell, G. L., Bennett, H. E., Dolin, R. 2020. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier. Clinical Key. | ||||||||
| 3 | Ārvalstu studentiem/ For international students: | ||||||||
| 4 | Patricia A. Potter, Perry, Anne Griffin. 2019. Essentials for Nursing Practice. EBSCOhost | ||||||||
| 5 | Mandell, G. L., Bennett, H. E., Dolin, R. 2020. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier. Clinical Key. | ||||||||
| 6 | Freeman, T.R. 2015. McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine. Ebook Central | ||||||||
| 7 | Wilkinson, Judith M. Treas, Leslie S.Barnett, Karen L. Smith, Mable H. 2016. Fundamentals of Nursing. F.A.Davis. EBSCOhost | ||||||||
| 8 | Sines, David. 2013. Community and Public Health Nursing. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Brila A. Infekcijas slimību epidemioloģija. Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds, 2009. | ||||||||
| 2 | Damani, N. Manual of infection prevention and control / Nizam Damani. (3rd ed.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2019. | ||||||||
| 3 | Holmes, K. Sexually transmitted diseases / editors, King K. Holmes, P. Frederick Sparling, Walter E. Stamm [et al.]. (4th ed.). New York [etc.]: McGraw-Hill Medical, 2008. | ||||||||
| 4 | Ārvalstu studentiem/ For international students: | ||||||||
| 5 | Vincent, Jean-Louis. 2017. Textbook of Critical Care. ClinicalKey | ||||||||
| 6 | Damani, N. Manual of infection prevention and control / Nizam Damani. (3rd ed.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2019. | ||||||||
| 7 | Holmes, K. Sexually transmitted diseases / editors, King K. Holmes, P. Frederick Sparling, Walter E. Stamm [et al.]. (4th ed.). New York [etc.]: McGraw-Hill Medical, 2008. | ||||||||
