Practical classes:

1.
•  Nursing care models, standards, procedures and algorithms applicable in the internal medicine ward.
•  The nursing process as a method of work in the internal medicine ward.
•  Professional confidentiality.
•  General principles of communication between nurses and patients.
•  ICNP.
•  Nursing care categorisation (KOP). 
•  Prevention of nosocomial infections. 
•  Basic principles of treatment in internal medicine. Choice of route of administration. Dosage principles. 

2. 

•  Care issues for patients and nursing interventions in respiratory diseases (bronchial asthma, COPD, pneumonia and pleurisy).
•  The role of nurses in the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases. Preparation for diagnostic tests, i.e. spirometry, bronchoscopy, pleural puncture. Care of patients after invasive procedures.
•  Principles of educating patients with respiratory diseases (bronchial asthma, COPD).
•  Primary and secondary prevention of respiratory diseases.
•  Principles and methods of managing shortness of breath. Principles of oxygen administration.

3.

•  Nursing care for patients with gastrointestinal disorders.
•  The nurse's role in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal disorders. Preparing patients for specialist non-invasive and invasive examinations of the digestive system. Care for patients after examinations. 
•  Nursing problems and nursing interventions in diseases of the digestive system - stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas (gastric and duodenal ulcers, cirrhosis of the liver, pancreatitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease).
•  Basics of dietary treatment in digestive system diseases. 
•  Prevention of digestive system diseases.    

4. 

•  Care issues in diabetic patients and nursing interventions   in diabetes.
•  Management of acute complications of diabetes. Prevention of diabetes complications. 
•  Dietary guidelines for type 1 or  type 2 diabetes. Use of carbohydrate exchanges   and glycaemic index. 
•  Insulin therapy – types of insulin, dose selection and rules for insulin administration. 
•  The importance of physical activity in the treatment of diabetes. 
•  Elements of self-monitoring in diabetes.
•  Principles of therapeutic education. Standard of therapeutic education for patients with type 1  or type 2 diabetes.
•  Test 1.

5. 

•  The role of nurses   in the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases.  Preparing patients for cardiovascular examinations (echocardiography, imaging, coronary angiography, exercise testing).
•  Principles of correct blood pressure measurement and interpretation of values.
•  Procedure for performing a resting ECG. Interpretation of basic disorders.
•  Methods of monitoring the condition of patients with cardiac diseases.  
•  The nursing process in selected cardiovascular diseases (coronary artery disease - stable and unstable, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias  and conduction disorders). 
•  Prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
•  Models of rehabilitation after myocardial infarction.
•  Therapeutic education in circulatory system diseases.

6. 

•  Prevention and treatment of constipation. Standards of care for constipation.
•  Assessment of nutritional status.
•  Care issues and therapeutic education in eating disorders – obesity and malnutrition.
•  Patient education in selected internal medicine conditions – presentation.
•  Test 2.

Lectures (remote, real-time):

1. Nursing interventions in selected cardiovascular diseases – acute coronary syndrome, heart failure, hypertension.
   
   
2. The nursing process in selected respiratory diseases. 
   
   
3. Nursing care in selected digestive diseases (cirrhosis of the liver, gastric and duodenal ulcers). Anaphylactic shock – principles of management. Acute and chronic pancreatitis – nursing process.
   
   
4. The role of the nurse in caring for patients with diabetes. 

Classes are conducted according to the schedule posted on the WNOZ website in Katowice.