MIPS041c Intensive Nursing Care in Psychiatry - Practice

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0.7/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Milena Letošová, DiS. (seminar tutor), MUDr. Jana Hořínková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Jana Pazderová
Supplier department: Department of Health Sciences – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Mon 13. 2. 12:30–15:00 N01136, Mon 20. 2. 12:30–15:00 N01136, Mon 27. 2. 12:30–15:00 N01136, Mon 6. 3. 12:30–15:00 N01136, Mon 13. 3. 12:30–15:00 N01136, Mon 20. 3. 12:30–15:00 N01136, Mon 27. 3. 12:30–15:00 N01136
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are:
1. acquiring basic practical knowledge about the organization of psychiatric care, psychiatric diagnostics
2. acquiring practical knowledge about major psychiatric disorders, their symptoms, course, diagnosis and treatment.
3. practically know groups of symptoms in psychiatry that may require intensive care - delirium and disorientation, agitation and aggression, catatonia and stupor, suicide and self-harm, diet and fluid rejection, somatic comorbidity of psychiatric disorders.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
2. Know the nursing process for adverse effects of psychiatric therapy requiring intensive care - neuroleptic malignant syndrome and serotonin syndrome.
Practically apply a nursing care plan for patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy.
4. Know the symptoms of mental disorders and their possible relationship to intensive care.
5. Apply nursing plan to patients in delirium, other disorientated patients and psychiatric patients with somatic comorbidity.
6. Apply nursing plan to restless, agitated, aggressive patients and suicidal patients.
7. Apply nursing plan to catatonic and stuporous patients and patients refusing to eat and drink.
Syllabus
  • Assessment of consciousness using assessment techniques (tests to determine qualitative disturbances of consciousness - CAM, CAM-ICU, MMSE, etc.)
  • Specifics of Intensive Nursing Care in Delirant and Disoriented Patients and Patients Intoxicated with Psychoactive Substances
  • Specifics of intensive nursing care in aggressive and agitated patients, in suicidal and self-inflicting patients
  • Specifics of intensive nursing care in catatonic and stupor patients and in patients who refuse diet and fluids
  • Specifics of nursing care in patients with somatic comorbidity, in psychiatric patients requiring care of other disciplines
  • Specifics of Nursing Care in Somatic Comorbid Patients and in Psychiatric Patients Requiring Care of Other Fields
Literature
    recommended literature
  • KAŠPÁREK, Tomáš. Psychiatrická propedeutika. Multimediální podpora výuky klinických a zdravotnických oborů. Online. In Portál LF MU (on-line). 2011. URL info
  • ŽOURKOVÁ, Alexandra, Eva ČEŠKOVÁ and Ivana DRTÍLKOVÁ. Obecná a speciální psychiatrie. Multimediální podpora výuky klinických a zdravotnických oborů. Online. In http://portal.med.muni.cz/clanek-347-obecna-a-specialni-psychiatrie.html. Portál LF MU (on-line). 2011. info
  • MALÁ, Eva and Pavel PAVLOVSKÝ. Psychiatrie : [učebnice pro zdravotní sestry a další pomáhající profese]. Vyd. 2. Praha: Portál, 2010, 143 s. ISBN 9788073677237. info
Teaching methods
Practical training of theoretical knowledge
Assessment methods
Credit
- participation in classes (1 absent)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 10.
Teacher's information
http://psychiatrie.med.muni.cz
Practical classes take place on the dates below, always on Mondays from 2:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the departments of the Psychiatric Clinic of the FN Brno. Students will wait for the practical lesson in the vestibule on the ground floor of the PK, where they will be picked up by the ICU nurse Mrs. Letošová, who will lead the practical lesson. Lesson dates: 13 February; 20 February; 27. 2.; 6. 3.; 13. 3.; March 20; 27/03/2023
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2024.
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