Course: Urgent care in oncology, palliative and hospice care

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Course title Urgent care in oncology, palliative and hospice care
Course code FZS/NPOPH
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Sochor Marek, MUDr. Ph.D.
  • Vohlídalová Jana, Bc.
Course content
Lectures: 1) Palliative care ? introduction, communication in palliative care. 2) Selected symptoms in oncology with an overlap into palliative care. 3) Acute conditions in oncology. 4) Treatment of pain and pulmonary symptoms. 5) Palliative care in intensive medicine. 6) Palliative care and euthanasia. 7) Patient in terminal condition. Exercises: 1) Palliative and hospice care, the role of the nurse, development in the Czech Republic, legislation. 2) Nursing care focused on the most common symptoms in palliative care. 3) Nursing process for a patient with cancer pain. 4) Nursing process for patients with the most common oncological diseases

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Practicum
Learning outcomes
The subject introduces the issues of oncology, palliative and hospice care in its entirety. They are in the introductory lectures defined basic oncological diseases, principles of their treatment, various forms of care with an overlap into nursing. In other parts of the block, the main and typical acute conditions of patients in curative and palliative oncological care are dealt with. Their therapy and management with regard to the type of tumor and the prognosis of the patients. The contents of the lectures and exercises are designed to overlap with non-oncological palliative care, due to the identical approach to their solution. In the last part, the emphasis is placed on the care of patients at the end of life
The student will become familiar with the issues of oncology, palliative and hospice care, basic oncological diseases, typical acute conditions in patients in curative and palliative oncological care and care for patients at the end of life.
Prerequisites
untermined

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, 

classified credit: . 80% participation in exercises . colloquium . oral exam
Recommended literature
  • BÜCHLER, T. Klinická onkologie. Praha : Maxdorf, Jesenius,, 2023. ISBN 978-80-7345-758-7.
  • BUŽGOVÁ, Radka. Etika ve zdravotnictví. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7464-409-2.
  • SLÁMA, O., L. KABELKA a J. VORLÍČEK. Paliativní medicína pro praxi. Praha: Galén, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7262-849-0.
  • SOCHOR, M., ZÁVADOVÁ, I., SLÁMA, O. (ed.). Paliativní péče v onkologii. Praha, Mladá fronta, Edice postgraduální medicíny, 2019. ISBN 978-80-204-4223-9.
  • TOMÁŠEK, Jiří. Onkologie: minimum pro praxi. Praha: Axonite CZ, 2015. ISBN 978-80-88046-01-1.
  • VOKURKA, S. Komplikace onkologických pacientů a možnosti jejich řešení v primární péči. Praha, Grada Publishing, 2022. ISBN 978-80-271-3556-1.
  • VORLÍČEK, J., J. ABRAHÁMOVÁ a H. VORLÍČKOVÁ. Klinická onkologie pro sestry. Praha: Grada, 2012. ISBN 978-80-247-3742-3.


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