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STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
The written final exam (100%) includes:
Multiple choice questions
Short answer questions
Judgement Questions
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim of the course is to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of clinical gastroenterology and endoscopic nursing in order to plan nursing care for patients who undergo diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic techniques and are hospitalized in gastroenterological departments or clinics.
Upon completion of the training students will be able to:
- Possess the necessary knowledge regarding the field of gastroenterology and endoscopy.
- Assess and evaluate the needs of the patient with known or potential digestive problems.
- Recognize the clinical manifestations and complications of digestive disorders.
- Evaluate the patient by prioritizing his problems and develop critical thinking in each of their interventions.
- Integrate with the health professional team in clinical practice.
- Familiarize themselves with the diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic techniques performed in the endoscopic department.
- Select and apply the most appropriate intervention skills by personalizing skills in clinical practice.
- Develop critical thinking and evaluate critically ill patients by applying initial coping measures in a rational and structured manner.
- Acquire basic skills in specialized interventions.
- Know the nursing care of critically ill patients.
- Apply the nursing process as a framework for planning and providing personalized care to patients with digestive disorders.
- Apply holistic and specialized nursing care to the endoscopic patient.
- Cultivate critical thinking and develop decision-making skills in clinical practice.
GENERAL COMPETENCES
- Adapting to new situations
- Decision making
- Working independently
- Team work
- Working in an interdisciplinary environment
- Production of new research ideas
- Project planning and management
- Respect for difference and multiculturalism
- Respect for the natural environment
- Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Promoting of free, creative and inductive thinking
- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies.
Course Outline
SYLLABUS
THEORY
The course is based on Nursing Process and includes the nursing care plan for every gastrointestinal disease and it relates to the nursing treatment of patients in the context of providing the most frequent clinical manifestations and disorders. In particular, it includes:
- Approach the patient with known or possible problems of the gastrointestinal tract
- Diagnostic tests of the gastrointestinal tract
- Nutritional disorders
- Disorders of the oral cavity
- Disorders of the esophagus
- Stomach and duodenal disorders
- Small bowel disorders
- Large bowel disorder
- Liver disorders
- Pancreatobiliary disorders
- Upper and lower GI bleeding
- Infections of the digestive system
The course also includes Endoscopic Nursing, where the student is invited to apply the nursing care plan to patients who are going to undergo diagnostic or therapeutic endoscopy. In particular, it includes:
- Historical review of endoscopy
- Types and anatomy of the endoscope
- Organization and operation of an endoscopic room
- Basic principles of cleaning and disinfection of endoscopes and endoscopic equipment
- Diagnostic endoscopic techniques of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract
- Therapeutic endoscopic methods of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract
- Endoscopy with wireless capsula
- Nursing responsibilities before, during and after diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Nursing responsibilities before, during and after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Nursing responsibilities in sedation and analgesia in endoscopy of the gastrointestinal tract
- Nursing responsibilities in the hygiene and safety environment of the endoscopic unit
- Quality and international standards in gastroenterological nursing.
The course also includes nursing care during the preparation of patients with gastrointestinal disorders in the hospital and the patients training in self-management of the disease in the community.