Course: Palliative care

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Course title Palliative care
Course code KOS/PAP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Pfefferová Eva, Mgr.
  • Šípová Simona, Mgr. MBA
Course content
Lectures 1. Concept of palliative care - basic definition. 2. Hospice and its integration into the health care system, hospitals of the long-term patients. 3. Family in the context of palliative care. 4. Needs of the Dying. 5. Spiritual care. 6. Care focused on psychosocial needs of terminally ill. 7. Human reaction in individual stages of dying. 8. Pain management (type and form of pain). 9. Euthanasia. 10. Credit test. Exercises 1. Palliative care system in the Czech Republic - current status. 2. Identification of the palliatively relevant patient. 3. Legal and ethical issues of palliative care in the Czech Republic. 4. Possibilities of cooperation between the Health Care System and the palliative care system. 5. Palliative care versus intensive/urgent medicine. 6. Practical issues related to death. Funerals and rituals associated with death. 7. Accompanying the dying, grieving, saying goodbye. 8. Basics of crisis intervention - psychological first aid. 9. Specifics of communication in palliative care. 10. Symptomatic treatment of the palliative patient in pre-hospital care.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 3 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 10 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to explain the possibilities of pharmacological affecting of pain
to describe individual components of the nursing process
Skills
to analyze acquired information, create and process nursing diagnoses
to plan nursing care
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
identifies the symptoms of the disease in palliative care
explains the etiology of the disease
plans and evaluates the effectiveness of nursing interventions
is familiar with basic pharmacology applied in palliative care
Skills
is able to provide nursing care in the form of a nursing process for patients in palliative care
Competences
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Skills
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Competences
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Skills
Test
Competences
Test
Recommended literature
  • Mezinárodní smlouva č. 96/2001 Sb., Úmluva na ochranu lidských práv a důstojnosti lidské bytosti v souvislosti s aplikací biologie a medicíny (Úmluva o lidských právech a biomedicíně)..
  • ABERGER, Kate, WANG, David. Paliativní medicína pro nemocniční lékaře - Kazuistiky z každodenní praxe.. Praha: Cesta domů, 2023. ISBN 978-80-88455-00-4.
  • Haškovcová, Helena. Thanatologie : nauka o umírání a smrti. 2., přeprac. vyd. Praha : Galén, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7262-471-3.
  • KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth. O smrti a umírání: co by se lidé měli naučit od umírajících. Přeložil Jiří KRÁLOVEC. Praha: Portál, 2015. ISBN 978-80-262-0911-9.
  • KUPKA, M. Psychologické aspekty paliativní péče.. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2011. ISBN 978-80-244-2931-1.
  • SLÁMA, Ondřej, KABELKA, Ladislav, et al. Paliativní medicína pro praxi. 3. vyd.. Praha : Galén, 2022. ISBN 978-80-749-2627-3.
  • STEINLAUF, Barbora. Právo a péče v závěru života.. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7598-714-3.


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