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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_075 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Anatomy | Target 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, mdak rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061568 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 0 | Class Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 0 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 0 | ||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| 1 | Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 104. Rīgā 2016. gada 16. februārī (prot. Nr.8 21.§) “Noteikumi par higiēniskā un pretepidēmiskā režīma pamatprasībām ārstniecības iestādē” | ||||||||
| 2 | Klīniskās procedūras un pacientu drošība / Dzintra Puriņa, Ināra Upmale. Rīga : Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Sarkanā Krusta medicīnas koledža, 2018 | ||||||||
| 3 | Clinical nursing skills & techniques / [edited by] Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter, Wendy R. Ostendorf. 8th ed. St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier, 2013 | ||||||||
| 4 | Gardovska J. redakcijā. „Ķirurģija”. Rīga, 2013 | ||||||||
| 5 | estudijas.rsu.lv. - ārstniecisko manipulāciju video | ||||||||
| 6 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students: | ||||||||
| 7 | Clinical nursing skills & techniques / [edited by] Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter, Wendy R. Ostendorf. 8th ed. St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier, 2013 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Perry, Anne Griffin. Mosby's pocket guide to nursing skills & procedures / Maryland Heights, Mo., 2011 | ||||||||
| 2 | Smith, Sandra F. Clinical nursing skills : basic to advanced skills / Boston [etc.], 2012 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/11/1281.full | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/health-professionals/clinical-guidel… | ||||||||
