Clinical Nursing Methods (4cr)

Objectives

The student
- knows how to monitor an adult’s body temperature, respiration and circulatory systems, knows the normal values and is able to implement nursing care to resolve problems in these systems;
-knows the ABCDE –method and how to assess patient’s vital signs based on the ABCDE method;
-knows how to assess a patient’s pain and is aware of various methods of pain management;
-takes responsibility for his/her learning and actions during small-group learning activities and commits himself/herself to goal-oriented problem solving process in small-group education;
-knows the most common clinical and microbiological investigations.

Content

- Monitoring of the circulatory system
- Monitoring of respiration and nursing methods of respiratory support
- Monitoring of body temperature and nursing actions and methods related to imbalances of thermal regulation
- Assessment of a patient’s vital signs based on the ABCDE –method and reporting of patient’s condition (ex ISBAR)
- Pain types and pain management using non-pharmacological nursing methods
- The most common clinical and microbiological investigations

Prerequisites

none