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Professional Occupational Factors and Prevention in Healthcare
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:21.03.2023 13:57:49
Study Course Information | |||||||||
Course Code: | MDAK_128 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
Course Supervisor: | Kristaps Circenis | ||||||||
Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
Structural Unit: | Department of Nursing and Obstetric Care | ||||||||
The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
Contacts: | Riga, Anniņmuižas bulvāris 26a, mdakrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061568 | ||||||||
Study Course Planning | |||||||||
Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
Study course description | |||||||||
Preliminary Knowledge: | General psychology, psychosomatic medicine, public health and epidemiology, pathological physiology. | ||||||||
Objective: | Promote the acquisition of knowledge about professional factors and risks to the health care system employees, with an emphasis on the psycho-emotional disorders, to develop understanding of occupational stress, deal Meeting of the mechanism functioning of the preventive measures the nature and application importance. | ||||||||
Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | Professional factors in health care, classification and essential characteristics. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
2 | Health care workers' in occupational health problems, influencing factors. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
3 | Professional quality of life concept (compassion fatigue, secondary stress). Psycho-emotional disorders in health care workers. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
4 | Burnout syndrome. Professional stress and deal Meeting of mechanisms. Preventive measures. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
5 | Preventive measures. Supervision characteristics, types. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
6 | Preventive measures. Group forms of therapeutic factors in the group, group management. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
7 | Professional factors in health care, classification and general characteristics. Health care workers' in occupational health problems, influencing factors. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
8 | Professional quality of life concept (compassion fatigue, secondary stress). Psycho-emotional disorders in health care workers. Burnout syndrome. Professional stress and deal Meeting of mechanisms. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
9 | Preventive measures. Supervision characteristics, types. Group forms of therapeutic factors in the group, group management. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
Assessment | |||||||||
Unaided Work: | During the course students do independently prepare and present two works on issues on the course topics. | ||||||||
Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in lessons – individual work presentations (50%), at the end of the semester – exam (50%). | ||||||||
Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
Knowledge: | Show knowledge and be able to describe the factors occupational health care, to talk about health care workers and occupational disease risks, psycho-emotional disorders, and preventive measures. | ||||||||
Skills: | Students will be able to identify occupational risk factors and possible disruption to the health care system workers. | ||||||||
Competencies: | Students will be able to independently assess the occupational risk factors for health professionals will be able to recommend the most appropriate prevention and types of assistance the individual and organisational level. | ||||||||
Bibliography | |||||||||
No. | Reference | ||||||||
Required Reading | |||||||||
1 | Eglīte M. Darba medicīna. Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, 2012. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
2 | Psihosociālā darba vide. Rīga (LBAS un LM), 2010. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
3 | Darba higiēna. Rīga, LM, 2010. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
4 | Mārtinsone K. Veselības psiholoģija. Teorijas un prakses starpdisciplinārā perspektīva. Rīga: RSU, 2019. | ||||||||
5 | Supervīzija: Teorija. Pētījumi. Prakse Kristīne Mārtinsone, Sandra Mihailova Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, 2017 | ||||||||
6 | Aldwin M. C. Stress, Coping and Development. An Integrative Perspective. New York: The Guilford Press, 2007. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
7 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students: | ||||||||
8 | Aldwin M. C. Stress, Coping and Development. An Integrative Perspective. New York: The Guilford Press, 2007. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
Additional Reading | |||||||||
1 | Arnold, Elizabeth C. Interpersonal Relationships : professional communication skills for nurses. St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, 2020. | ||||||||
2 | Pašpalīdzības un pašvadības iespēju arsenāls krīzes un transformāciju laikā: metodes ikvienam. Autoru kolektīvs. Sastādītāja: Kristīne Mārtinsone. Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, 2021 | ||||||||
3 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students: | ||||||||
4 | Arnold, Elizabeth C. Interpersonal Relationships : professional communication skills for nurses. St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, 2020. |