Study Guide

Learning objectives

After completing the course, student
- understands the importance of the nurse’s ethical guidelines and nursing values in his or her work
- understands the importance of evidence-based practice
- explains the emergence of internal and oncological diseases, their symptoms, diagnostics, treatments, and care
- assesses the client's nursing needs in different nursing situations and environments
- deepens his or her expertise in planning, implementing and assessing the treatment of internal medicine and cancer patients and documenting the process
- knows the importance of service guidance in a situation of patients with long-term illnesses and their next of kin or close ones
- carries out nursing interventions
- can apply nutrition and physical activity treatment
- is familiar with the basics of the essential medical treatment of internal medicine and cancer patients
- can provide resource-oriented mentoring for the patient’s self-care and lifestyle changes
- understands and pays attention to the importance of close ones and friends at different stages of the patient’s disease
- can perform the required drug calculations accurately

Content

- evidence-based decision-making process in nursing care and nutrition therapy of internal medicine and cancer patients
- essential medical care and drug calculations
- psychosocial support for the client and next of kin / close ones at different stages of the disease
- ethics and health promotion, the client’s active role in self-care
- the most common internal diseases and diagnostics
- documentation
- infection prevention and control
- encountering a terminally ill or dying patient (basics of palliative care)

Qualifications

Nursing Assessment and Interventions, Theory completed.
Nursing Assessment and Interventions, Clinical skills in progress.
Basics of Pharmacological Treatment completed.