The Department of Nursing of IHU, like all the Nursing Faculties of the country, has the mission to promote the development and transfer of scientific knowledge and clinical skills in the field of nursing science, through theoretical teaching, laboratory and clinical practice, as well as applied research.
The objectives of the students’ clinical placement are:
- to become familiar with the clinical area,
- to be able to assess and prioritize the nursing problems of the individual,
- to apply, as far as possible (and under supervision), various nursing procedures,
- to evaluate the results after the application of care and monitor the administration of nursing instructions to the patient and his/her relatives,
- to be in contact with modern biomedical equipment in the clinical environment,
- apply their theoretical knowledge in practice.
From the second semester of their studies in the Department, students are required to undertake clinical internships in healthcare facilities in order to consolidate both their theoretical knowledge and the acquired skills in the Department’s laboratories.
More specifically and per semester, the structures are as follows (updated according to the needs of the Department):
- 2nd semester: Open Centers for the Elderly, Hospital Outpatient Clinics, Schools-Special Schools.
- 3rdsemester: Pathology and surgery departments of hospitals.
- 4thsemester: Urology, cardiology and orthopedic departments of hospitals.
- 5th semester: Pediatric, Pediatric Surgery and Obstetrics departments of hospitals.
- 6th semester: Intensive Care Unit, Neurology and Psychiatry Departments.
- 7th semester: Health centers, emergency and outpatient departments, preventive medicine.
- Clinical Nursing I (“Practice”), Clinical Nursing II (“Practice”) and Clinical Nursing III (“Practice”) are also included in the nursing specialty courses. During these courses, students have the opportunity to apply and supplement the required knowledge and skills in the nursing process by interning in primary, secondary and tertiary health care settings. It should be noted that the credit hours and workload of this clinical placement are included in the clinical practice III of the eighth semester.