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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Lectures: 1) Characteristics of geriatric nursing; theory of aging; aging physiology, functional changes in older age; psychosocial changes in old age; healthy lifestyle in old age; preparation for old age 2) Characteristics of elderly diseases, polymorbidity, geriatric pharmacotherapy; rehabilitation care in geriatrics 3) Dementia, mental, neurological disorders in seniors; chapters with geriatric cardiology and pneumology 4) Chapters of geriatric gastroenterology and urology, incontinence 5) Haematological and oncological diseases in seniors 6) Musculoskeletal system and stability disorders in seniors; endocrine and metabolic disorders in seniors 7) Terminal stage; working with the geriatric patient's family; the process of planned discharge of geriatric patients; model situations Exercises: 1) Nursing process in geriatric patient 2) Nursing process in a patient with dementia, mental and neurological disorders; nursing process in a geriatric patient with heart and lung disease 3) Nursing process in geriatric patient with hematological and oncological diseases; nursing process in geriatric patient with musculoskeletal disorders 4) Nursing process in geriatric patient with endocrine and metabolic disease; nursing process in a patient at the terminal stage
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming)
- Class attendance
- 64 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course provides basic knowledge of geriatrics and allows the application of knowledge gained in other subjects into the nursing process. Emphasis is placed on differences in individual needs of people of higher age groups and the way of their satisfaction. It introduces the differences of multidisciplinary care of seniors in the area of primary, secondary and tertiary health care.
Students obtain knowledge in given course in accordance with requirements and course programme.
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Prerequisites
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Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam
Classified credit: - 80% participation in exercises, - self-study, - oral exam.
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Recommended literature
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HUDÁKOVÁ, Anna a Ľudmila MAJERNÍKOVÁ. Kvalita života seniorů v kontextu ošetřovatelství. Praha: Grada, 2013. ISBN 978-80-247-4772-9.
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KALVACH, Zdeněk. Geriatrické syndromy a geriatrický pacient. Praha: Grada, 2008. ISBN 978-80-247-2490-4.
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KUBEŠOVÁ, Hana. Akutní stavy v geriatrii. Praha: Galén, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7262-620-5.
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POKORNÁ, Andrea. Ošetřovatelství v geriatrii: hodnotící nástroje. Praha: Grada, 2013. ISBN 978-80-247-4316-5.
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SCHULER, Matthias a Peter OSTER. Geriatrie od A do Z pro sestry. Praha: Grada, 2010. ISBN 978-80-247-3013-4.
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ZRUBÁKOVÁ, Katarína a Štefan KRAJČÍK. Farmakoterapie v geriatrii. Praha: Grada, 2016. ISBN 978-80-247-5229-7.
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