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Nursing (PPI-SM)

(in Polish: Pielęgniarstwo studia magisterskie)
second cycle studies
full time, 2 years, 4 semesters
Language: polish

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Qualification awarded:

(in Polish) Magister pielęgniarstwa

Access to further studies:

Possibility to apply to third-cycle studies.

Professional status:

Aftermeeting the requirements specified in the Act on the Occupation of Nurses and Midwives of 15 July 2011, consolidated text of 22 July 2016 (Dz.U. z 2016, poz. 1251), the graduate obtains the licence to practise the profession.

Learning outcomes

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The programme of study carried out in accordance with the standards of training for the nursing field of study specified in the Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of 21 July 2019, on standards of training for the professions of medical doctor, dentist, pharmacist, nurse, midwife, laboratory diagnostician, physiotherapist and paramedic (Dz. U. poz. 1573).
The description of learning outcomes in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences for the nursing programme was approved by the Resolution No. XXXI/153/19 of the Senate of Stanisław Staszic University of Applied Sciences in Piła on 21 February 2019.
The diploma of magister pielęgniarstwa is awarded to a graduate of second-cycle nursing programme who achieved the following learning outcomes.
In terms of knowledge the graduate knows:
A.W1. the models and approaches used in health psychology;
A.W2. the significance of social and psychological support in health and illness;
A.W3. the theories of psychological stress, relations between stress and health and other psychological determinants of health;
A.W4. the salutogenic approach of subjective determinants of optimal health and pathogenic approach determined by illness;
A.W5. the processes of adaptation to life with chronic disease and determinants of these processes;
A.W6. legal consequences of medical events;
A.W7. the essence of medical errors in nursing in the context of failure in therapeutic and care activities;
A.W8. the system of civil liability insurance;
A.W9. he legal determinants of processing sensitive data in the health care system;
A.W10. levels of authority to provide health services by a nurse with regard to levels of nursing qualifications;
A.W11. management methods in the health care system;
A.W12. the principles of organisation functioning and structure building;
A.W13. the concept of organisational culture and factors that determine it;
A.W14. the mechanisms of decision making in management;
A.W15. management styles and the significance of leadership in development of nursing;
A.W16. the principles of providing nursing services and their financing;
A.W17. the specificity of management functions, including the essence of delegating;
A.W18. methods of organisation diagnosis, the concept and theory of change management and principles of strategic management;
A.W19. the problems of human resource management;
A.W20. determinants of professional development of nurses;
A.W21. the scientific foundations of ergonomics in the work environment;
A.W22. models and strategies of quality management;
A.W23. the basic concepts of medical teaching;
A.W24. the principles of preparation to teaching activity;
A.W25. methods of teaching and teaching aids used in undergraduate and postgraduate education;
A.W26. the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms;
A.W27. Madeleine Leininger’s transcultural nursing theory;
A.W28. cultural determinants of providing care with consideration of health behaviour and approach to treatment;
A.W29. cultural and religious differences in the perception of people and in intercultural communication;
B.W1. the mechanisms of action of medicinal products and their transformation in the body depending on the age and health problems;
B.W2. legal regulations related to reimbursement of drugs, medical products and food for special medical purposes;
B.W3. the principles of administering medicinal products containing specific active substances, with the exception of drugs containing very potent substances, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and specific medical products, including writing prescriptions or orders for them;
B.W4. the symptoms and side effects of drugs containing specific active substances;
B.W5. the assumptions of public health organisation and surveillance in health care institutions;
B.W6. the determinants of incidence, control and prevention of hospital infections in various hospital wards, taking into consideration etiological factors, including alert pathogens;
B.W7. the principles of planning, development, implementation and supervision of preventive and infection control activities;
B.W8. the organisation and functioning of an endoscopy unit and the principles of endoscopic procedures;
B.W9. the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities of endoscopy in the area of alimentary tract, airways, urology, gynaecology, laryngology, anaesthesiology and orthopaedics;
B.W10. the principles of maintaining medical records in an endoscopy unit;
B.W11. the theoretical assumptions of counselling in the work of a nurse based on legal regulations and transtheoretical model of change (Prochaska and DiClemente);
B.W12. predictors of functioning of a healthy and ill person, taking into consideration a chronic disease;
B.W13. methods of assessment of patient’s health in nursing counselling;
B.W14. the principles of therapeutic procedure in most common health problems;
B.W15. the principles of selection of diagnostic tests and interpretation of their results within the scope of professional qualifications;
B.W16. models of co-ordinated care functioning in the Republic of Poland and in selected countries;
B.W17. legal regulations in the area of co-ordination of health care of patient in the health care system;
B.W18. the principles of co-ordination of health programmes and process of organisation and provision of health services in various areas of the health care system;
B.W19. the principles of operation of inter-disciplinary teams in health care;
B.W20. the assumptions and principles of development of nursing procedure standards taking into consideration evidence cased medicine and evidence based nursing practice;
B.W21. the assumptions and principles of creating and evaluation of health programmes and methods of therapeutic education;
B.W22. the scope of prevention of infectious diseases, social diseases and modern lifestyle diseases;
B.W23. the procedure and scope of child and adult routine health check;
B.W24. medical checkups and preventive programmes financed from public funds by the National Health Fund;
B.W25. the principles of diagnostic and therapeutic procedure and care of patients with hypertension, heart arrhythmia, chronic circulatory failure and modern technologies used in therapy and monitoring of patients with circulatory system diseases;
B.W26. the pathomechanism, symptoms, diagnostics and nursing procedure in chronic respiratory failure;
B.W27. the technique of spirometry;
B.W28. the standards of specialist nursing care of patient in continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT);
B.W29. the principles of functioning of a dialysis unit and renal replacement therapy (continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, CADO, ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, ADO, hemodialysis, hyperalimentation);
B.W30. the causes and principles of diagnostic and therapeutic procedure and care of patients with organ dysfunction;
B.W31. the principles of patient care before and after organ transplantation;
B.W32. the principles and methods of therapeutic education of a patient, patient’s family and carer in terms of self-observation and self-care in diabetes, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;
B.W33. the pathomechanism of diabetes, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and complications and principles of co-ordination of actions related to therapeutic education;
B.W34. the etiopathogenesis of neoplasia, epidemiology and prevention of neoplastic diseases;
B.W35. the principles of treatment and care of a patient with neoplastic disease, including personalised therapy;
B.W36. the principles and methods of nursing a patient after radiotherapy and chemotherapy;
B.W37. methods of recognising patient’s reaction to disease and oncological treatment;
B.W38. methods of assessment of chronic wounds and their classification;
B.W39. modern methods of therapy and role of oxygen hyperbaric treatment and negative pressure wound therapy in the process of treatment of most common chronic wounds, in particular venuous ulcers, ischemic ulcers, bedsores, frostbite, diabetic foot syndrome;
B.W40. the principles of selecting dressings in the treatment of chronic wounds;
B.W41. the principles of preparing a patient and patient’s family in the area of prevention of wounds and their complications;
B.W42. the principles of evaluation of functioning of intestinal and urinary fistula and their complications;
B.W43. the principles of preparing a patient with intestinal and urinary fistula and patient’s family to self-observation and self-care and principles of selecting stoma supplies and their reimbursement;
B.W44. methods of pain assessment in various clinical situations and pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of pain management;
B.W45. the principles of co-operation with a nutrition team in planning and carrying out methods, techniques and types of enteral and parenteral nutrition as part of prevention of complications;
B.W46. the principles of application of modern oxygen therapy methods, monitoring a patient receiving oxygen therapy and oxygen toxicity;
B.W47. the indications and principles of application of invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation and its possible complications;
B.W48. the effect of a chronic disease on psychophysical functioning of a person and interpersonal relations;
B.W49. the causes, symptoms and course of depression, anxiety disorders and addictions;
B.W50. the principles of nursing care of a patient with mental disorders, including depression and anxiety disorders and patient with an addiction;
B.W51. the scope of assistance and support within the framework of benefits offered to persons with mental health problems and their families or carers;
B.W52. the principles of nursing care of patient with nervous system disorders, including degenerative diseases;
C.W1. the directions, scope and type of scientific research in nursing;
C.W2. the principles of good practice in research;
C.W3. research methods and techniques in nursing;
C.W4. the principles of preparation of databases for statistical analysis;
C.W5. information tools, statistical tests and principles of analysing the results of research;
C.W6. sources of scientific medical information;
C.W7. methods of searching for scientific information in databases;
C.W8. the principles of evidence based medicine and evidence based nursing practice;
C.W9. the systems of undergraduate and postgraduate training of nurses in selected European Union member states;
C.W10. the procedure of recognition of professional qualifications of nurses in the Republic of Poland and other European Union member states;
C.W11. the systems of nursing care and contemporary trends in the development of nursing care;
C.W12. the principles of access of European Union members state citizens to health services in the light of the law of the European Union;
C.W13. the role and priorities of the health policy of the World Health Organisation and the European Commission.

In terms of skills a graduate can:
In terms of skills a graduate can:
A.U1. indicate the role of social and psychological support in the care of a healthy and ill person;
A.U2. indicate methods of coping with stress;
A.U3. evaluate events in nursing practice in the context of compliance with the law and possibilities and methods of pursuing claims, and indicate possibilities of solving a given problem;
A.U4. classify a given professional situation with respect to civil, criminal and professional law;
A.U5. analyse causes of medical errors and suggest preventive measures;
A.U6. analyse the structure of nurses’ professional tasks in the context of his/her qualifications;
A.U7. apply methods of strategic analysis necessary for the functioning of health care providers;
A.U8. organise and supervise the work of nursing teams;
A.U9. apply various methods of making professional and management decisions;
A.U10. plan human resources using various methods, organise staff recruitment and carry out the process of professional adaptation;
A.U11. draw up a professional development plan for himself/herself and for subordinate nursing staff;
A.U12. prepare job descriptions for nurses and scopes of duties, authority and responsibilities;
A.U13. prepare staff working schedules on the basis of the assessment of demand for nursing care;
A.U14. supervise the quality of nursing care in health care providers, including prepare the provider for external quality assessment;
A.U15. select appropriate measures and methods in teaching activities;
A.U16. verify the achieved learning outcomes and organisation of the professional training process;
A.U17. use variation in work in terms of interpersonal communication resulting from cultural, ethnic, religious and social determinants;
A.U18. apply in practice the assumptions of Madeleine Leininger’s transcultural nursing theory;
A.U19. recognise cultural determinants concerning nutrition and transfusions;
A.U20. consider religious and cultural determinants of patients’ needs in health care;
A.U21. communicate in English at level B2+ of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages;
B.U1. select and prepare the record of preparation forms of drugs containing specific active substances, on the basis of targeted assessment of patient’s condition;
B.U2. interpret pharmaceutical descriptions of medicinal products;
B.U3. administer medicines, food for special medicinal purposes and medical products depending on patient’s needs and issue prescriptions or orders for them;
B.U4. select and order food for special medicinal purposes and medical products depending on patient’s needs;
B.U5. apply principles of preventing and combating hospital infections and public health surveillance in various health care institutions;
B.U6. plan and carry out staff education in the area of prevention and combating infections and infectious diseases;
B.U7. use nursing care management quality indicators in public health surveillance;
B.U8. teach a patient and patient’s family the management before the planned process of diagnostic endoscopy and endoscopic therapy and afterwards;
B.U9. co-participate in the process of diagnostic endoscopy and endoscopic therapy;
B.U10. maintain medical records in an endoscopy unit;
B.U11. diagnose health risk of a patient with chronic disease;
B.U12. assess patient’s adaptation to chronic disease;
B.U13. provide counselling to persons at risk of addictions and addicted persons using transtheoretical model of changes (Prochaska and DiClemente);
B.U14. prepare educational materials for a patient and patient’s family as part of health counselling;
B.U15. use technological resources for the purposes of health counselling;
B.U16. select and apply methods of assessment of patient’s health as part of providing nursing advice;
B.U17. choose and order diagnostic tests within the scope of professional qualifications held;
B.U18. implement therapeutic action depending on the assessment of the patient’s condition within the scope of professional qualifications held;
B.U19. co-ordinate the provision of health care services for patients with chronic diseases;
B.U20. prepare a diagnosis of health needs and a plan of care and treatment organisation at the organisation and inter-institutional levels;
B.U21. plan and co-ordinate the process of providing health care services taking into consideration the criteria of quality and effectiveness;
B.U22. adapt the available health promotion and health education programmes to recognised health needs;
B.U23. implement health promotion programmes for patients and their families;
B.U24. use selected methods of health education;
B.U25. carry out activity in the area of prevention of infectious diseases, social diseases and modern lifestyle diseases;
B.U26. react to specific health risks in the living, studying and working environment;
B.U27. prepare a patient with hypertension, chronic circulatory failure and heart arrhythmia for self-management and self-care;
B.U28. plan and carry out therapeutic education of a patient, patient’s family and carer in the area of self-observation and self-care in hypertension, chronic circulatory failure and heart arrhythmia;
B.U29. use modern information technology to monitor patients with circulatory system diseases;
B.U30. perform spirometry and interpret its results;
B.U31. provide specialist nursing care of a patient in continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT);
B.U32. plan and carry out therapeutic education of a patient, patient’s family and carer in the area of self-observation and self-care during dialysis and hemodialysis;
B.U33. plan and provide nursing care of a patient with organ failure, before and after organ transplantation;
B.U34. use current knowledge in order to provide high level therapeutic education of patients with diabetes, their families and carers;
B.U35. plan and co-ordinate care of a patient with diabetes;
B.U36. motivate a patient with diabetes to manage the disease and co-operate in the treatment process;
B.U37. plan care of patients with selected neoplastic diseases treated systemically;
B.U38. use methods and measures alleviating side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy;
B.U39. recognise psychological situation of a patient and patient’s reactions to disease and the treatment process and provide motivational and educational support;
B.U40. assess and classify chronic wounds;
B.U41. select dressings taking into consideration the type and condition of a wound;
B.U42. prepare a patient and patient’s family to prevention, self-control and care of a wound;
B.U43. apply modern techniques of care of intestinal and urinary fistules;
B.U44. prepare a patient with a stoma to self-care and provide consultancy in selection of stoma supplies;
B.U45. assess pain intensity according to the scales taking into consideration patient’s age and clinical condition;
B.U46. select and apply methods of pharmacological pain management and apply non-pharmacological methods of pain management depending on the clinical condition of the patient;
B.U47. monitor the effectiveness of pain management;
B.U48. carry out patient’s education in the area of self-control and self-care in pain management;
B.U49. use standardised tools in the evaluation of patient’s nutrition;
B.U50. monitor patient’s general condition during nutritional therapy;
B.U51. carry out enteral nutrition using various techniques, including a peristaltic pump and parenteral nutrition by central or peripheral venous route;
B.U52. prepare equipment and devices to implement invasive mechanical ventilation, including perform a device test;
B.U53. operate a ventilator in non-invasive ventilation mode;
B.U54. prepare and use equipment for non-invasive ventilation;
B.U55. provide comprehensive nursing care of a patient receiving invasive mechanical ventilation;
B.U56. communicate with a patient receiving mechanical ventilation using alternative communication methods;
B.U57. assess health needs of a patient with mental disorders, including depression and anxiety disorders, and a patient with an addiction, as well as plan health interventions;
B.U58. analyse and adopt to patient’s needs the available mental health promotion programmes;
B.U59. recognise life situation of a patient in order to prevent patient’s social isolation;
B.U60. carry out psychoeducation of a patient with metal disorders, including depression and anxiety disorders, and a patient with an addiction and patient’s family (carer), as well as use social skill training as a form of psychiatric rehabilitation;
B.U61. provide advanced nursing care of a patient with nervous system disorders, including degenerative diseases;
C.U1. indicate directions and scope of scientific research in nursing;
C.U2. plan scientific research and discuss its aims and expected results;
C.U3. carry out scientific research, present and interpret its results and refer them to the current knowledge;
C.U4. prepare databases for statistical calculations;
C.U5. use parametric and non-parametric tests for dependent and independent variables;
C.U6. use specialist Polish and foreign scientific literature, scientific databases and information and data provided by international nursing organisations and associations;
C.U7. prepare recommendations for nursing care based on scientific evidence.

In terms of social competences a graduate is ready to:
A.K1. make a critical assessment of his/her own actions and actions of colleagues with respect for worldview and cultural differences;
A.K2. formulate opinions concerning various aspects of professional activity and seek the advice of experts in case of difficulties with independent solving of a problem;
A.K3. show care for the prestige associated with the nursing profession and professional solidarity;
A.K4. solve complex ethical problems related to nursing practice and indicate priorities in carrying out specific tasks;
A.K5. take responsibility for provided health care services;
A.K6. display professional approach to marketing strategies of the pharmaceutical industry and advertising of its products.
B.K1. make a critical assessment of his/her own actions and actions of colleagues with respect for worldview and cultural differences;
B.K2. formulate opinions concerning various aspects of professional activity and seek the advice of experts in case of difficulties with independent solving of a problem;
B.K3. show care for the prestige associated with the nursing profession and professional solidarity;
B.K4. solve complex ethical problems related to nursing practice and indicate priorities in carrying out specific tasks;
B.K5. take responsibility for provided health care services;
B.K6. display professional approach to marketing strategies of the pharmaceutical industry and advertising of its products.
C.K1. make a critical assessment of his/her own actions and actions of colleagues with respect for worldview and cultural differences;
C.K2. formulate opinions concerning various aspects of professional activity and seek the advice of experts in case of difficulties with independent solving of a problem;
C.K3. show care for the prestige associated with the nursing profession and professional solidarity;
C.K4. solve complex ethical problems related to nursing practice and indicate priorities in carrying out specific tasks;
C.K5. take responsibility for provided health care services;
C.K6. display professional approach to marketing strategies of the pharmaceutical industry and advertising of its products.

Course structure diagram:

Abbreviations used in tables:
lect - Lecture
p - Practice
sem - Seminar
ćw - Exercise
c - Credit
x - Final rating
zo - Credit for the grade
1 semester, Nursing, full-time studies, second cycle studiesECTSlectpsemćwexam
Medical didactics31025x
Professionally profiled english language I230zo
Law in nursing practice31520x
Health psychology41525x
Nursing management I31520x
Oncological care240x
Nursing management II120x
Health care and education in neoplastic disease31520x
Health care and education in chronic wounds and fistulas31520x
Research information120x
Evidence-based nursing practice31020x
Introduction to occupational safety and health04c
Library training02c
Moduł uzupełniający:
Mechanism of drug action, prescribing and prescribing drugs and substances for special purposes21020x
Przedmiot do wyboru:
Health promotion and prevention at the workplace230x
Health promotion and prevention in paediatricsjak powyżej30x
Introduction to the organization and coordination of organ procurement for transplantationjak powyżej30x
Total:3211160310
3 semester, Nursing, full-time studies, second cycle studiesECTSlectpsemćwexam
Professionally profiled english language III330zo
Coordinated healthcare21015x
Health care and education in diabetes21015x
Health care and education in renal replacement therapy310 or 1515 or 20x
Health care and education in nutritional treatment21015x
Health care and education in respiratory failure21015x
Health care and education in pain therapy21015x
Health care and education in continuous oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation31520x
Health care and education in disorders of the nervous system21015x
Health promotion and preventive services21015x
Selected topics in toxicology230x
Primary health care120x
Long-term mechanical ventilation in residential and home care240x
Masters Seminar II230x
Przedmiot do wyboru:
Physical activity in health promotion and prevention230x
Diet in selected diseasejak powyżej30x
Standardization in nursingjak powyżej30x
Total:32856030275

Admission procedures:

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