Clinical Social Work with Infectious Disease Patients (IUDK_036)
About Study Course
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.
Prerequisites
Biology, anatomy, biochemistry, parasitology, physiology, microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, internal diseases and pharmacology.
Learning outcomes
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.
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.
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.
Study course planning
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social work, SD | 7 | Bachelor’s | Required | Angelika Krūmiņa, Gunta Stūre, Raimonds Sīmanis, Aija Leidere-Reine, Iveta Ozere, Ludmila Vīksna, Sniedze Laivacuma, Anastasija Kozira |
