Fundamentals of Nursing Science

General

• Code: 278-190203
• Semester: 2nd
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Course type: Specialization
• Teaching and exams language: Greek
• Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Theory (4) / Laboratory (3)
• ECTS Units: 9
• Course homepage: https://moodle.teithe.gr/course/index.php?categoryid=196
• Instructors: Kourkouta Lamprini, Lavdaniti Maria, Theofanidis Dimitrios, Kafkia Theodora, Koukourikos Konstantinos, Liamopoulou Polyxeni, Fountouki Antigoni

Course Contents

Theory

• General information on hospitals. Hospital: purpose and function of a modern hospital, Types of hospitals, inpatient unit, wards, outpatient clinics. Patients’ physical environment.
• Patient admission to the hospital.
• Inpatient unit, organization, ward, equipment.
• Infection control. Principles of asepsis – antisepsis and sterilization.
• Hospital acquired infections and criteria for their recording. Mission of hospital infection committee. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Preventive, therapeutic, supportive measures – pressure sores. Key positions of bedridden patients – Prevention of bedsores.
• Treatment of bedsores.
• Nursing Process in surgical patients: pre and post operative care.
• Postoperative complications of circulatory, digestive, respiratory and urinary system.
• Surgical trauma:  General principles of wound healing – prevention of infections.

Laboratory

• Structure of a hospital ward (equipment). Making a simple bed, student training.
• Bed making with a patient in a lateral position, student training.
• Surgical bed making, pre- and post- operative nursing care, student training.
• Surgical instruments, preparation of sterile instrument pack, student training.
• Sterile gloves and handling of sterile items, student training.
• Pressure sores: prevention, care, student training.
• Surgical wound care, student training.
• Administration of medications through rectal root, student training.
• Personal hygiene, bed bath, care of the oral cavity, student training.
• Methods of administering medicines, abbreviation of instructions, filling in medicine cards, student training.

Educational Goals

The aim of the module is to familiarize students with the basic principles of nursing care for the treatment of patients with pathological and surgical health problems.

General Skills

• Adapting to new situations.
• Decision-making.
• Working independently.
• Team work.
• Project planning and management.
• Respect for difference and multiculturalism.
• Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues.
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.

Teaching Methods

• Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Lectures Presentation of the lesson with powerpoint.
• Support of the learning process through the electronic platform moodle.

Teaching Organization

Students Evaluation

Theory

• Written exams.

Laboratory

• Oral exams/practice.