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Nursing (PPI-SL)

(in Polish: Pielęgniarstwo studia licencjackie)
first cycle studies
full time, 3 years, 6 semesters
Language: polish

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Qualification awarded:

(in Polish) Licencjat pielęgniarstwa

Access to further studies:

Possibility of applying for admission to second degree studies.

Professional status:

After meeting the requirements specified in the Act on the Occupation of Nurses and Midwives of 15 July 2012, consolidated text of 22 July 2016 (Dz. U. z 2016 r. poz. 1251), the graduate obtains the licence to practise the profession.

Learning outcomes

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The description of the learning outcomes in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences for the field of study: nursing was approved by the Resolution No. XLV/262/16 of the Senate of Stanisław Staszic University of Applied Sciences in Piła on 16 June 2016 and the Resolution No. I/12/16 of the Senate of Stanisław Staszic University of Applied Sciences in Piła on 29 September 2016. The diploma of bachelor in nursing is obtained by a graduate of first-cycle nursing programme who achieved the learning outcomes in terms of knowledge:
A.W1. he/she uses anatomical terminology;
A.W2. he/she can discuss the build of the human body in topographical (upper and lower limbs, chest, abdomen, pelvis, back, neck, head) and functional approach (osteoarticular system, muscular system, circulatory system, respiratory system, alimentary system, urinary system, reproductive system, nervous system, sensory organs, common integument);
A.W3. he/she understands neurohormonal regulation of physiological processes and electrophysiological processes;
A.W4. he/she can describe specification, significance of water and electrolyte balance and acid-alkaline balance in maintaining body homeostasis;
A.W5. he/she can specify basic reactions of inorganic and organic compounds in aqueous solutions and laws of physics affecting fluid flow and factors affecting vascular resistance;
A.W6. can describe physicochemical foundations of functioning of senses using physical information carriers (sound and electromagnetic waves);
A.W7. he/she can describe physical foundations of non-invasive and invasive imaging methods;
A.W8. he/she has knowledge in the area of radiological diagnostics;
A.W9. he/she can differentiate the structure of amino acids nucleosides, monosaccharides carboxylic acids and their derivatives, included in macroparticles present in cells, extracellular matrix and body fluids, can differentiate vitamins;
A.W10. functions of human genome, transcriptome and proteome and basic concepts of regulation of gene expression,including epigenetic regulation;
A.W11. he/she can describe the structure of chromosomes and molecular basis of mutagenesis; he/she knows metabolic profiles of basic organs;
A.W12. he/she can name principles of inheriting various numbers of characteristics, inheritance of quantitative characteristics, independent inheritance of characteristics and inheritance of extranuclear genetic information;
A.W13. he/she can name enzymes participating in digestion, explain basic defects of digestive enzymes and specify the effects of these disorders;
A.W14. he/she can define basic concepts in the area of microbiology and parasitology;
A.W15. he/she can differentiate epidemiology of viral and bacterial infections, and fungal and parasitic infections, taking into consideration their geographic range;
A.W16. he/she can characterise individual groups of medication, main mechanisms of action, transformations in the body and side effects;
A.W17. he/she can describe basic principles of pharmacotherapy;
A.W18. he/she can describe individual groups of drugs and their medical application and the principles of treatment with blood and blood substitutes;
A.W19. he/she can define basic concepts in the area of general pathology, including circulatory disorders, retrogressive changes, progressive changes, inflammations and neoplasms;
A.W20. he/she can discuss selected problems in the area of organ pathology of the circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, urinary and reproductive system, and nervous system;
A.W21. he/she can name external and internal, modifiable and non-modifiable pathogenic factors;
A.W22. he/she knows the effect of disease processes on drug metabolism and elimination;
A.W23. he/she knows main adverse effects of drugs, including those resulting from their interaction;
A.W24. he/she knows the principles of issuing prescriptions as part of implementation of medical recommendations;
A.W.25. he/she knows groups of drugs, active substances included in drugs, forms and routes of administering drugs;
B.W1. he/she knows the basics of psychology in the are of human behaviour and development, determinants of normal and disturbed functioning;
B.W2. he/she knows the problems of the human-social environment relation;
B.W3. he/she can discuss mechanisms of functioning of a person in difficult situations; development of a human;
B.W5. he/she can differentiate the concepts of emotion and motivation and knows the concept of personality and its disorders;
B.W6. he/she can describe the essence and structure of phenomena occurring in the process of transfer and exchange of information;
B.W7. he/she can define the models and styles of interpersonal communication;
B.W8. he/she knows techniques of anxiety reduction and methods of relaxation and mechanisms of formation, action and prevention of professional burnout syndrome;
B.W9. he/she can discuss selected theories and methods•of modelling reality applicable in nursing from the sociological perspective;
B.W10. he/she can discuss selected areas of cultural and religious differences;
B.W11. he/she can describe the scope of social interaction and socialisation process and the functioning of local communities and ecosystem;
B.W12. he/she can define the concepts of group, organisation, institution, population, community and ecosystem and knows the principles of their functioning;
B.W13. he/she can differentiate between the concepts of deviation and disorder with a special consideration of children pathology;
B.W14. he/she understands cognitive processes and can differentiate between normal, disturbed and pathological behaviour;
B.W15. he/she can define and interpret the phenomenon of class, ethnic and gender inequality and discrimination;
B.W16. he/she can explain basic concepts and problems in the area of pedagogy as an applied science and the education process in the aspect of a social phenomenon (illness, recovery, hospitalisation, dying);
B.W17. he/she is familiar with the education process in the aspect of health education;
W18. he/she knows the problems of methodology of health education with respect to children, youths and adults;
B.W19. he/she knows basic concepts in the area of law and its place in the life of a society with a special emphasis on human rights and the labour law;
B.W20. he/she knows the basics of the problems of health insurance and its system in Poland and in the European Union; he/she can describe compulsory and voluntary insurance and selected directions of health care policy in Poland and in the European union member states;
B.W21. he/she knows legal basic for practising medical professions: rights and obligations of a nurse, organisational structure and the principles of functioning of professional self-governing body of nurses and midwives, the tasks of the self-governing body in the area of awarding the right to practise the profession and issue the permission to run an individual or group nursing practice;
B.W22. he/she can differentiate between criminal, civil and employee's liability related to practising the profession of nurse;
B.W23. he/she knows the Charter of Patient's Rights, Human Right Charter and Charter of Children 's Rights;
B.W24. he/she can present the origin, assumptions and tasks of public health within the framework of systematic concept of health care;
B.W25. he/she can indicate cultural, social and economic determinants of public health;
B.W26. he/she knows basic concepts concerning health and illness;
B.W27. he/she can classify factors determining health m individual and global aspect;
B.W28. he/she can discuss the principles of rational diet in the light of the latest scientific research;
B.W29. he/she can describe the essence of preventive medicine and disease prevention;
B.W30. he/she can discuss the foundations of organisation of the National Health System in Poland;
B.W31. he/she can explain the assumptions of models of health education, including the model of family medicine, the roles and tasks of a nurse in primary health care;
B.W32. he/she can name the operating principles of medical services market in Poland and in selected countries of the European Union;
B.W33. he/she can specify unique health risks in the living, learning and work environment;
B.W34. he/she can discuss the structure and functions of health care institutions;
K_B.W35. he/she can discuss the following concepts: workplace, responsibility, obligations and rights, working time, shift work, work schedule, care standard, procedure, algorithm;
B.W36. he/she can describe basic methods of organisation of nursing care and types of records obligatory in nursing workplaces;
B.W37. he/she can define the concepts: work load, occupational disease and accident at work;
B.W38. he/she can indicate typical stages of the process of job hunting;
B.W39. he/she can describe the stages of planning of his/her own work and their significance in professional development;
B.W40. he/she can define the concept of quality in health care and nursing, differentiates between criteria of health care and nursing care;
B.W41. he/she can differentiate between the object of general and professional ethics;
B.W42. he/she has knowledge in the area of philosophical and ethical concepts useful in nursing (psychological and personalistic, existentialistic, personalistic, cosmic and evolutionary, T. Kotarbiński's autonomous ethics);
B.W43. he/she can describe the essence of making ethical decisions- and solving moral dilemmas in the work of a nurse;
B.W44. he/she knows the problems of normative ethics, including axiology of moral values, obligations and skills significant in the work of a nurse;
B.W45. he/she can understand the contents of the code of professional ethics of a nurse;
B.W46. he/she has a command of English at the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
C.W1. he/she indicates determinants of development of nursing from the time perspective (past, present, future) against the background of transformation of care;
C.W2. he/she can discuss the essence of contemporary nursing in the theoretical and practical dimensions and the process of its professionalisation;
C.W3. he/she can-define care and specify the place of support, help and accompanying in it;
C.W4. he/she can describe the professional role and functions of a nurse and the role of a patient in the process of health care;
C.W5. he/she can describe the care process (essence, stages, principles of application) and primary nursing (essence, differences) and the effect of traditional care on the functioning of the nursing practice;
C.W6. he/she knows and applies the classifications for nursing diagnosis;
C.W7. he/she can specify the essence of nursing care based on the theoretical assumptions of F. Nightingale, V. Henderson, O. Orem, K.C. Roy and B. Neuman and other classic nursing theories;
C.W8. he/she can differentiate the participation of a nurse in an interdisciplinary team in the process of health promotion, preventive medicine, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation;
C.W9. he/she can explain the scope of nurse activities depending on the patient's condition, including: long- term immobilisation, pain, fever, sleep disturbance;
C.W10. he/she can differentiate tasks of a nurse in care of a healthy patient, patient at risk of a disease, patient with bad prognosis;
C.W11. he/she can describe the working conditions and the scope of professional task of a nurse;
C.W12. he/she can describe the essence, objective, indications contraindications, risks, rules and structure of basic nursing procedures;
C.W13. he/she can define health, health promotion, preventive medicine, health behaviour, lifestyle and can indicate their theoretical foundations;
C.W14. he/she can explain health paradigms and their effect on health promotion and preventive medicine;
C.W15. he/she can specify the scope and nature of nurse's tasks in health promotion, knows principles of creating health promotion programmes and health education;
C.W16. he/she knows the strategies of health promotion on a local, national and supranational level;
C.W17. he/she can describe primary health care in Poland and in the world taking into consideration the tasks of a nurse and other health care workers;
C.W18. he/she knows the system of information management in primhealth care;
C.W19. he/she can indicate the determinants and measures of quality of llrimary health care;
C.W20. he/she can discuss models of community and family nursing and forms of providing nursing care within the framework of primary health care;
C.W21. he/she can formulate differences in community and family nursing in terms of collecting information, diagnosis, methods of work and documenting, in terms of living, learning and work environment;
C.W22. he/she can formulate differences in community and family nursing in terms of collecting information, diagnosis, methods of work and documenting, in terms characteristics of the family and local community;
C.W23. he/she can provide health service in terms of primary health care, including guaranteed services and providing care of an ill patient;
C.W24. he/she can assess the learning environment in terms of identifying health problems in children and youths;
C.W25. he/she can prepare equipment and means to carry out nursing care in patient's living environment;
C.W26. he/she can apply nursing standards and procedures in primary health care;
C.W27. he/she can define the body's demand (in terms of quantity and quality) for nutrients necessary to support life in conditions of health and illness;
C.W28. he/she can name principles of nutrition of healthy people at various ages and describe the essence of enteral and parenteral nutrition;
C.W29. he/she knows the principles of preventive medicine and diet treatment and diet therapy complications;
C.W30. he/she can discuss general and detailed medical history taking, principles of performing and documenting it;
C.W31. he/she can describe the techniques of physical examination and comprehensive physical examination of a patient for the purpose of nursing care;
C.W32. he/she can specify the significance of the results of the history-taking and physical examination in formulating the assessment of patient's health for the purpose of nursing care;
C.W33. he/she can define the subject, objective, area of research and nursing paradigms;
C.W34. he/she can describe the stages of a research procedure;
C.W35. he/she can describe research methods and techniques;
C.W36. he/she can specify the principles of empirical data interpretation and inference;
C.W37. he/she knows basic provisions of copyright law and intellectual property protection;
C.W38. he/she can specify the significance of ethics in scientific research;
C.W39. he/she can define a hospital-acquired infection, taking into consideration sources and pool of microorganisms in a hospital environment, transmission routes, prevention and fighting hospital-acquired infections;
C.W40. he/she can explain methods of controlling the spread, prevention and fighting hospital-acquired infections, including hospital environment microorganisms;
C.W41. he/she can explain the mechanism and procedures in blood infection, systemic infection, hospital-acquired pneumonia, urinary infection and fungal infection;
C.W42. he/she can analyse epidemiological risk in human gatherings such as schools, kindergartens, universities, hospitals, concerts, barracks;
C.W43. he/she can explain the causes of hearing and speech impairment in the context of communication and understands the significance of early diagnosis;
C.W44. he/she distinguishes the methods and means of communication of people with impaired hearing;
C.W45. he/she understands fingerspelling, static, dynamic numerical, and idiographic signs in terms of collecting information about patient's health;
C.W46. he/she knows the principles of communication with a deaf patient;
C.W47. he/she can describe mental health development theories and define mental health;
C.W48. he/she can identify risks and positive factors in development of mental health;
C.W49. he/she can discuss stress as a determinant of biopsychosocial balance of the body in the aspect of mental health;
C.W50. he/she can indicate the role of a nurse in prevention of professional burnout, aggression, violence and harassment in various period of life;
C.W51. he/she knows food products for special nutritional purposes;
D.W1. he/she can name life threatening symptoms in patients of various ages;
D.W2. he/she can describe risk factors and health risk factors in patients of various ages and conditions;
D.W3. he/she can explain etiopathogenesis, clinical symptoms, course, treatment, prognosis, and nursing care in the diseases of circulatory disease (heart, blood vessels), respiratory system, nervous system, alimentary system (stomach, intestines, large glands), liver, pancreas, urinary system (kidneys and bladder), osteoarticular system, muscles, endocrine system and blood;
D.W4. he/she knows the principles of patient assessment depending on patient's age;
D.W5. he/she knows the principles of diagnosing in nursing in internal medicine, geriatrics, surgery, paediatrics neurology, psychiatry, anaesthesiology, obstetrics and gynaecology and in palliative care;
D.W6. he/she knows the principles of planning patient care depending on patient's age and condition;
D.W7. he/she knows the principles of preparing patients of various ages and in various condition to examinations and diagnostic procedure, patient care during and after examinations;
D.W8. he/she can describe groups of drugs and their action on patient's systems and organs in various diseases, depending on patient's age and condition, taking into consideration undesired effects, interactions with other drugs and routes of administration;
D.W9. he/she can describe nursing techniques and procedures used in patient care depending on patient's age and condition;
D.W10. he/she knows the principles of preparing the patient self-care depending on patient's age and condition;
D.W11. he/she can differentiate patient's reactions to disease and hospitalisation depending on patient's age and condition;
D.W12. he/she knows the role of a nurse during patient's admission to an enterprise of health care entity depending on patient's age and condition;
D.W13. he/she can describe the ageing process in the biopsychosocioeconomic aspect;
D.W14. he/she knows unique principles of organisation of specialist care (geriatrics, intensive medical care neurology, psychiatry, paediatrics, internal medicine, surgery, palliative care and medical rescue system in Poland);
D.W15. he/she can differentiate etiopathogenesis of diseases of the elderly: diabetes, heart diseases, arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, dementia syndromes, Parkinson's disease and depression;
D.W16. he/she can characterise the tools and scales of assessment of support of the elderly and their families;
D.W17. he/she knows the principles of activation of a disabled patient and geriatric care patient;
D.W18. he/she can explain the pathophysiology and clinical symptoms of developmental age diseases, respiratory system, circulatory system diseases, urinary tract, alimentary system diseases, allergic disease and blood diseases;
D.W19. he/she can discuss pathophysiology and clinical symptoms of diseases and life threatening conditions in newborns and premature infants;
D.W20. he/she can describe the basics of premature infant and newborn care;
D.W21. he/she can explain the objective and principles of preconception care;
D.W22. he/she can describe the mechanism and stages of physiological birth;
D.W23. he/she knows the principles of planning care for women during physiological pregnancy and puerperium;
D.W24. he/she can identify etiopathogenesis of gynaecological disorders;
D.W25. he/she knows the consequences of long-term immobility;
D.W26. he/she knows methods, techniques and tools of assessment of consciousness;
D.W27. he/she knows etiopathogenesis and clinical symptoms of basic mental disorders;
D.W28. he/she knows the principles of applying direct coercion;
D.W29. he/she knows the possibilities of using psychotherapy in:patients with nervous system disorders;
D.W30. he/she knows the principles of patient nutrition, taking: into consideration dietetictreatment, pre-and postoperative indications;
D.W31. he/she can describe factors increasing perioperative risk;
D.W32. he/she knows the principles of preparing patient to an emergency and planned surgery and in one-day surgery;
D.W33. he/she knows the directions of patient observation after a surgery in order to prevent early late complications;
D.W34. he/she can name symptoms, characterise course and procedure in specific disease entities treated by surgery;
D.W35. he/she can explain the actions of integrated system of intestinal stoma care and other health associations;
D.W36. he/she can explain pathophysiology of disorders in the course of diseases and injuries of the nervous system and possible complications;
D.W37. he/she knows basic directions of medicinal rehabilitation (ergotherapy, psychotherapy, kinesitherapy, physiotherapy);
D.W38. he/she can describe the course and methods of rehabilitation in disease entities;
D.W39. he/she knows the forms of occupational rehabilitation;
D.W40. he/she knows standards and procedures in medical emergencies and life-saving procedures;
D.W41. he/she knows the principles of preparing the operating theatre to surgery with general and local anaesthetics;
D.W42. he/she can describe the directions of patient observation during a surgery, including basic and extended monitoring;
D.W43. he/she knows the course of anaesthetics process and principles and methods of patient care after anaesthetics;
D.W44. he/she can characterise methods of local anaesthetics and the tasks of anaesthesiology nurse during and after local anaesthetic;
D.W45. he/she can identify life-threatening conditions and describe patient monitoring using devices and no device methods;
K_D.W46. he/she can explain algorithms of resuscitation procedure in the area of basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS);
D.W47. he/she knows the principles of infection prevention in intensive care units and in the operating theatre;
D.W48. he/she can describe the procedure of medical protection in mass events and catastrophes and in special situations, such as a chemical, radiation and biological contamination;
D.W49. he/she knows the principles of first aid;
D.W50. he/she knows pathophysiology, clinical symptoms and complications of cancers;
D.W51. he/she knows the procedure of handling the body of a dead patient;
D.W52. he/she know types and principles of ordering diagnostic tests;

in terms of skills:
A.U1. he/she can practically use anatomical terminology and uses the knowledge of topography of human body organs;
A.U2. he/she can show differences in the build and characterise life functions of an adult and child;
A.U3. he/she can predict the direction of biochemical processes in individual clinical conditions;
A.U4. he/she can construct a pattern of using basic anatomical knowledge in a physical examination;
A.U5. he/she can identify most commonly found human parasites on the basis of their build, life cycles and disease symptoms;
A.U6. he/she can estimate the risk of a disease manifesting itself on the basis of principles of heredity and the effect of environmental factors;
A.U7. he/she can use the knowledge of the laws of physics to describe problems in the area of biology of cells, tissues and physiological processes, in particular to explain the effect of such external factors as temperature, gravity, pressure, electromagnetic field, and ionising radiation on human body;
A.U8. he/she can assess the effect of pharmacological treatment on physiological and biochemical processes taking place in individual organs;
A.U9. he/she can differentiate individual groups of drugs and their medical application;
A.U10. he/she knows the issues of treatment with blood and blood substitutes;
A.U11. he/she can describe changes in functioning of the body as a whole in a state of disturbed homeostasis;
A.U12. he/she can associate images of tissue and organ damage with clinical symptoms of a disease, history and results of diagnostic tests;
A.U13. he/she can use the knowledge of genetically determined diseases in prevention of cancers and prenatal diagnostics;
A.U14. he/she can classify microorganisms taking into consideration pathogenic microorganisms and microorganisms present in physiological flora;
A.U15. he/she can use knowledge of functioning of the parasite- host system for the proper treatment of diseases caused by parasites;
A.U16. he/she can estimate the toxicological risk in specific age groups and in various clinical conditions;
A.U17. he she can assess the harmfulness of a dose of ionising radiation and comply with the principles of radiological protection;
A.U18. he/she can use pharmaceutical reference guides and databases of medicinal products;
A.U19. he/she has the skills enabling issuing prescriptions for drugs necessary to continue treatment, as part of implementation of medical recommendations;
B.U01. he/she can make summaries of basic health determinants;
B.U02. he/she can assess the effect of disease, hospitalisation and other difficult situations on physical and mental condition and social functioning of a person;
B.U03. he/she designs and carries out elementary forms of psychological help in simulated conditions;
B.U04. he/she predicts the effect of disease and hospitalisation on the mental condition and somatopsychic relations of a person;
B.U05. he/she can analyse human attitudes, the process of their development and change;
B.U06. he/she can assess the functioning of a person in difficult situations (stress, conflict, frustration);
B.U07. he/she knows psychological aspects of functioning of a person in various periods of development;
B.U08. he/she knows psychosocial aspects of sexual and pro- family education;
B.U09. he/she can control errors and barriers in the communication process;
B.U10. he/she shows the ability of active listening;
B.U11. he/she can use the techniques of verbal, non-verbal and paraverbal communication in health care;
B.U12. he/she can create conditions for normal nurse-patient and nurse-medical staff communication;
B.U13. he/she can select appropriate techniques reducing anxiety and relaxation methods;
B.U14. he/she can use techniques of preventing professional burnout syndrome;
K_B.U15. he/she can analyse and critically assess discrimination an racism;
K_B.U16. he/she can monitor and coordinate actions preventing deviation and pathology in children and youths;
B.U17. he/she knows legal regulations concerning practising the profession of the nurse and providing health services;
B.U18. he/she knows the possibilities of applying the rules of professional, criminal and civil liability in the area of health care system and providing health services;
B.U19. he/she can develop projects of nursing pro-health activities in the living, learning and work environment;
B.U20. he/she can assess global trends concerning health care in the aspect of the latest epidemiological and demographic data;
B.U21. he/she can interpret actions in the area of health and social policy implemented by the state for public health;
B.U22. he/she can analyse and assess the functioning of various health care systems and identify sources of their financing;
B.U23. he/she designs methods and forms of preventative medicine and disease prevention and development of normal health behaviour for various social groups;
B.U24. he/she can monitor burdensome factors in the nurse's work and factors conducive to occupational diseases and accidents at work;
B.U25. he/she considers abilities of active job searching (methods of searching, cv, application letter, job interview, self-presentation);
B.U26. he/she can carry out the assessment of quality of nursing care for the purpose of improvement in care;
B.U27. he/she can differentiate between the scope of competences, professional responsibilities and moral obligations in individualised situation of care subject;
B.U28. he/she respects the human dignity in relation with the patient and the patient's family;
B.U29. he/she knows how to solve moral dilemmas in professional practice;
B.U30. he/she ensures his/her moral development and development of conscience;
B.U31. he/she can analyse literature in English;
B.U32. he/she communicates in English on the level corresponding to the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
C.U1. he/she can propose a care model and apply selected nursing theories in practice;
C.U2. he/she can collect information on the basis of history taking, using observation, direct and indirect measurements (scales), analysis of documentation (including analysis of diagnostic tests), physical examination in order to identify patient's condition and formulate a nursing diagnosis;
C.U3. he/she can perform diagnostic tests in order to identify the level of ketone bodies and glucose in blood and in Urine and cholesterol in blood as well as other test strips;
C.U4. he/she can measure glycemia using a glucometer;
C.U5. he/she can establish the objectives and plan care of an ill or disabled person;
C.U6. he/she can plan and carry out nursing care with the patient or disabled person and their family;
C.U7. he/she can monitor the patient's condition at all stages of the patient's stay in hospital or other health care institutions, including by assessment of basic life parameters: temperature, heart rate, arterial blood pressure, breathing and consciousness, weight and height;
C.U8. he/she can perform an on-going and final assessment of the patient's health and the effectiveness of nursing;
C.U9. he/she can store drugs according to the standards in place;
C.U10. he/she can administer drugs to patients by various routes, in accordance with the doctor's written prescription and can calculate drug doses;
C.U11. he/she can assist the patient in eating, voiding, moving and maintaining personal hygiene;
C.U12. he/she takes care of the skin and skin appendages and mucous membranes using pharmacological measures and medical materials, including therapeutic baths;
C.U13. he/she can select the technique and ways of dressing wounds, including bandaging;
C.U14. he/she can use various techniques of feeding the patient;
C.U15. he/she can carry out intrarectal procedures- an enema, clyster, drip, rectal tube;
C.U16. he/she can insert a urinary catheter, monitor diuresis, remove a catheter, perform bladder irrigation;
C.U17. he/she can position the patient in bed in therapeutic positions and changes these positions;
C.U18. he/she can perform respiratory gymnastics and postural drainage, inhalation and airway clearing;
C.U19. he/she can perform rubbing, chest percussions and other techniques of classic massage, active and passive exercises;
C.U20. he/she can ensure patient's safe environment;
C.U21. he/she can create conditions for patient's sleep and rest;
C.U22. he/she can perform eye and ear irrigation;
C.U23. he/she can connect and monitor intravenous drip infusions;
C.U24. he/she can insert a gastric tube and perform stomach decompression;
C.U25. he/she can perform anti-inflammatory procedures and cupping therapy;
C.U26. he/she can insert and remove peripheral venous catheter;
C.U27. he/she can monitor, assess and care for central venous catheter, peripheral venous catheter and venous access port;
C.U28. he/she can perform pulse oximetry and capnometry;
C.U29. he/she can assist a doctor in diagnostic tests: abdominocentesis, pleurocentesis, bone marrow biopsy, lumbar puncture;
C.U30. he/she can take material for laboratory and bacteriology tests;
C.U31. he/she can bathe a newborn and infant and monitor their development;
C.U32. he/she can prepare himself/herself and equipment to instrumentation and change of wound dressing;
C.U33. he/she can maintain nursing care records, including history of care, observation sheet, temperature sheet, report book, pressure ulcer prevention and treatment card;
C.U34. he/she can note down the orders in a doctor order sheet;
C.U35. he/she can help patient to adapt to conditions in hospital and other institutions of health care entity;
C.U36 he/she can assess the health of an individual and a family, health potential of a person using unique methodology (scales, grids, device measurements);
C.U37. he/she can identify determinants of individual's health behaviour and disease risk factors resulting from lifestyle;
C.U38. he/she can teach the recipient of nursing services how to self-monitor health and motivate to pro-health behaviour;
C.U39. he/she can initiate and support an individual and family in maintaining health through creating a community "coalition for health";
C.U40. he/she can carry out health promotion and health education programmes adjusted to identified health needs;
C.U41. he/she can develop and implement individual programmes of health promotion for individuals and families;
C.U42 he/she can provide health services in the area of primary health care, including guaranteed services and providing care for an ill patient;
C.U43. he can assess the teaching and education environment in terms of identifying health problems of children and youths;
C.U44. he/she can prepare equipment and measures to carry out nursing care in patient's living environment;
C.U45. he/she applies nursing standards and procedures in primary health care;
C.U46. he/she can assess the nutrition of the body using anthropometric and biochemical methods and history taking;
C.U47. he/she can provide advice on nutrition of healthy adults and children;
C.U48. he/she can use selected therapeutic diets in obesity, malnutrition, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, arterial hypertension, cardiovascular disease, pancreas and liver diseases;
C.U49. he/she can take patient's medical history, analyse and interpret the results for the purpose of nursing diagnosis and documenting it
C.U50. he/she can identify and interpret basic differences in the examination of a newborn, infant, adult and adult in the geriatric age;
C.U51. he/she can use the techniques of physical examination for the assessment of physiological functions of skin, senses, head, chest, including cardiovascular system, respiratory system, mammary glands, abdomen, sex organs peripheral circulatory system, musculoskeletal system and nervous system;
C.U52. he/she can document the results of the physical examination and their use in the assessment of the patient's condition;
C.U53. he/she can perform physical examination enabling an early diagnosis of breast diseases and can teach patients how to perform self-examination;
C.U54. he/she can participate in a research project;
C.U55. he/she can critically analyse published results of scientific research;
C.U56. he/she can use the results of scientific research in providing high quality patient care;
C.U57. he/she can participate in professional training of students;
C.U58. he/she can prepare and implement his/her own research project within the framework of qualitative study;
C.U59. he/she can analyse and summarise reports of scientific research (e.g. scientific articles);
C.U60. he/she complies with the ethical principles of scientific research and protection of intellectual property;
C.U61. he/she can implement standards preventing hospital acquired infections and infections in other enterprises of health care entity;
C.U62. he/she can perform assessment and isolate potentially infected patients or patients with infectious diseases,
C.U63. he/she can use disinfectants safely and segregates medical waste;
C.U64. he/she can make contact with a hearing impaired and deaf person;
C.U65. he/she can use sign language in the care of a deaf an mute patient in order to prepare the patient to conscious participation in medical and care procedures;
C.U66. he/she can use sign language in the area of situation terminology; providing first aid, giving information to the family;
C.U67. he/she can undertake actions promoting mental health and identifies networks of social support;
C.U68. he/she can undertake preventive and diagnostic actions concerning violence, aggression, harassment and professional burnout;
C.U69. he/she has the skills necessary to select food products for special nutritional purpose and the skills enabling issuing prescriptions for food products for special nutritional purposes necessary to continue treatment, as part of implementation of medical recommendations and can provide information on their use;
D.U1. he/she can collect information, formulate a nursing diagnosis, establish care objectives and plan, implement nursing intervention and evaluate care;
D.U2. he/she can identify determinants of maintaining health of care recipients of various ages and in various conditions;
D.U3. he/she can provide advice in terms of self-care of patients of various ages and in various conditions, concerning developmental defects, diseases and addictions;
D.U4. he/she can motivate a patient and patient's carers to join social support groups;
D.U5. he/she can provide prevention of complications in the course of diseases;
D.U6. he/she can organise isolation of patients with contagious diseases in public places and in home environment;
D.U7. he/she can assess psychophysical development of a child, perform screening tests, detect developmental disorders;
D.U8. he/she can diagnose the degree of risk of pressure ulcers and classify them;
D.U9. he/she can take material for diagnostic tests
D.U10. he/she can assess patient's overall condition for complications after specialist diagnostic tests and postoperative complications;
D.U11. he/she can administer oxygen on demand, modify the fixed dose of fast and short acting insulin;
D.U12. he/she can prepare the patient physically and mentally to diagnostic tests;
D.U13. he/she can document the health condition of the patient, the dynamics of changes and provided nursing care;
D.U14. he/she can temporarily immoblilise bone fractures dislocations and sprains and prepare the patient to transport;
D.U15. he/she can carry out education in the area of providing first aid in health emergencies;
D.U16. he/she can identify health emergencies;
D.U17. he/she can perform automatic external defibrillation(AED) and restore patency of airways without any devices;
D.U18. he/she can instruct the patient and patient's carer about using care and rehabilitation equipment and supplies;
D.U19. he/she can carry out enteral and parenteral feeding of adults and children using various techniques, including a peristaltic pump;
D.U20. he/she can identify complications of pharmacological, dietetic, rehabilitation, therapeutic and care treatment;
D.U21. he/she can identify complications of pharmacological, dietetic, rehabilitation, therapeutic and care treatment;
D.U22. he/she can carry out a therapeutic conversation;
D.U23. he/she can temporarily stop bleeding and haemorrhages;
D.U24. he/she can carry out bedside rehabilitation and motor rehabilitation of the patient and activation using elements of occupational therapy;
D.U25. he/she can maintain, document and assess patient's fluid balance;
D.U26. he/she can provide information about the patient's condition to the members of the therapeutic team;
D.U27. he/she can assist a doctor during diagnostic and therapeutic tests;
D.U28. he/she can maintain documentation of patient care: observation sheet, nursing procedures and report sheet, hospital acquired infections register sheet, pressure ulcer prevention and treatment sheet and information sheet with indications for self-care;
D.U29. he/she can assess the level of pain, patient's reaction to pain and pain intensity and apply pain management;
D.U30. he/she can create conditions for dignified dying of a patient;
D.U31. he/she can predict the effects of actions of a patient with specific mental disorders;
D.U32. he/she can adjust nursing intervention to the type of care problems;
D.U33. he/she can prepare and administer medication by various routes, independently or at a doctor's orders;
D.U34. he/she can recognise indications for performance of specific diagnostic tests and has skills enabling issuing referrals for specific diagnostic tests;
D.U35. he/she can prepare records of compounding forms of medicinal substances in communication with a doctor or at the doctor’s request;

in terms of social competences:
A.K1. he/she respects the dignity and autonomy of persons is his/her care;
A.K2. he/she systematically extends his/her professional knowledge and develops skills striving for professionalism;
A.K3. he/she complies with moral values, obligations and skills in care;
A.K4. he/she shows moral responsibility for a person and performing professional tasks;
A.K5. he/she complies with patient's rights;
A.K6. he/she performs professional obligations with diligence and care;
A.K7. he/she maintains professional confidentiality;
A.K8. he/she can co-operate within an interdisciplinary team in solving ethical problems while complying with the code of professional conduct;
A.K9. he/she is open to the development of his/her and patient's subjectivity;
A.K10. he/she shows empathy in relations with patient and patient's family- and colleagues;
B.K1. he/she respects the dignity and autonomy of persons is his/her care;
B.K2. he/she systematically extends his/her professional knowledge and develops skills striving for professionalism;
B.K3. he/she complies with moral values, obligations and skills in care;
B.K4. he/she shows moral responsibility for a person and performing professional tasks;
B.K5. he/she complies with patient's rights;
B.K6. he/she performs professional obligations with diligence and care;
B.K7. he/she maintains professional confidentiality;
B.K8. he/she can co-operate within an interdisciplinary team in solving ethical problems while complying with the code of professional conduct;
B.K9. he/she is open to the development of his/her and patient's subjectivity;
B.K10. he/she shows empathy in relations with patient and patient's family- and colleagues;
C.K1. he/she respects the dignity and autonomy of persons is his/her care;
C.K2. he/she systematically extends his/her professional knowledge and develops skills striving for professionalism;
C.K3. he/she complies with moral values, obligations and skills in care;
C.K4. he/she shows moral responsibility for a person and performing professional tasks;
C.K5. he/she complies with patient's rights;
C.K6. he/she performs professional obligations with diligence and care;
C.K7. he/she maintains professional confidentiality;
C.K8. he/she can co-operate within an interdisciplinary team in solving ethical problems while complying with the code of professional conduct;
C.K9. he/she is open to the development of his/her and patient's subjectivity;
C.K10. he/she shows empathy in relations with patient and patient's family- and colleagues;
D.K1. he/she respects the dignity and autonomy of persons is his/her care;
D.K2. he/she systematically extends his/her professional knowledge and develops skills striving for professionalism;
D.K3. he/she complies with moral values, obligations and skills in care;
D.K4. he/she shows moral responsibility for a person and performing professional tasks;
D.K5. he/she complies with patient's rights;
D.K6. he/she performs professional obligations with diligence and care;
D.K7. he/she maintains professional confidentiality;
D.K8. he/she can co-operate within an interdisciplinary team in solving ethical problems while complying with the code of professional conduct;
D.K9. he/she is open to the development of his/her and patient's subjectivity;
D.K10. he/she shows empathy in relations with patient and patient's family- and colleagues.

Course structure diagram:

Abbreviations used in tables:
lect - Lecture
egz - Exam
lab - Laboratory
p - Practice
sam - Self-education
sem - Seminar
zp -
zps -
ćw - Exercise
c - Credit
e - Exam
x - Final rating
zo - Credit for the grade
1 semester, Nursing, full-time studies, first cycle studiesECTSlectegzlabpsamsemzpzpsćwexam
Anatomy I2151515x
Biochemistry and biophysics I2305 or 1010x
Physiology I2151515x
Genetics24510 or 5x
Microbiology and parasitology23011 or 515x
Physical education I030c
English I21530zo
Psychology21510 or 1530x
Sociology21510 or 1515x
Public health2301515x
Dietetics11510x
Ethics of the nursing2151020x
Fundamentals of nursing I64510135x
Health promotion I2151015x
Fundamentals of emergency medical services110515x
Introduction to occupational safety and health04c
Library training02c
Total:30301105360
2 semester, Nursing, full-time studies, first cycle studiesECTSlectegzlabpsamsemzpzpsćwexam
Anatomy II2151515x
Biochemistry and biophysics II23015x
Pharmacology230520x
Physiology II2151515x
Pathology225525x
Radiology1205x
Physical education II030c
English II21530zo
Pedagogics2201515x
Physical examination21030x
Organization of nursing work115510x
Fundamentals of nursing II3301060x
Fundamentals of nursing III380 or 755x
Health promotion II120x
Fundamentals of nursing IV4120x
Total:29200120115205250
4 semester, Nursing, full-time studies, first cycle studiesECTSlectegzlabpsamsemzpzpsćwexam
Primary health care I220515x
Pediatrics and pediatric nursing II6160160 or 15010x
Primary health care II140x
Research in nursing2151510x
Pediatrics and pediatric nursing I34550 or 4015x
Diploma seminar I130x
Surgery and surgical nursing III6120160x
Pediatrics and pediatric nursing III6160x
Medical law22015x
Total:291002803203530401040
5 semester, Nursing, full-time studies, first cycle studiesECTSlectegzlabpsamsemzpzpsćwexam
Neurology and neurological nursing II38080 or 755x
Palliative care II24040 or 355x
Primary health care III38080 or 755x
Psychiatry and psychiatric nursing II30802080 or 755x
Neurology and neurological nursing III380 or 120x
Palliative care III240x
Primary health care IV4120x
Psychiatry and psychiatric nursing III38040 or 80x
Neurology and neurological nursing I23030 or 1515x
Palliative care I215 or 3010 or 1515x
Basics of rehabilitation110515x
Psychiatry and psychiatric nursing I23010 or 1510x
Diploma seminar II130x
Total:317036016025302055

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