Program of Study / : / General Medicine
Course / : / Basic Procedures in Healthcare 1
Abbreviation / : / SOL/VAa41
Schedule / : / 30 hours of practical training
15 hours of seminars
Course Distribution / : / 2nd Year/ Winter Semester / Academic Year 2017/2018
Number of Credits / : / 2
Course Form / : / Seminars, practical training

Seminars and practical training:

Teacher: / PhDr. Zlata Pražanová, MBA
Study: / Vjící: / Continuous; Center for Basic Health Care Skills, Room no. 2.116, Theoretical Institutes, Medical faculty and Dentistry UP, 12.10.2017 – Thursday-room no. 2.144;13.10.2017 – Friday – room no. 2.117
Thursday: 14:00-16:1516:30-18:45
Friday: 8:00-10:15 10:45-13:00
Date / Topic / No. of Lesson / Teacher / Lecture Room
1. / 18. - 22. 9. 2017 /
  • Familiarization with the operation
    of the practical classroom: Order
    of Center for Basic Health Care Skills, collaboration with teachers (preparation of aids and care for them through practical exercises procedures).Credit requirements for the winter semester: continuous preparationof students for teaching, information.Duties of the students and their compliance with the order of the Center.
  • Principles of asepsis in health facilities.Barrier care.
  • Asepsis (explanation concept, related concepts: antisepsis, infectious diseases, sterilization, disinfection…).
  • Handwashing (technique, principles).
  • The use of gloves (disposable gloves, sterile gloves).
  • Nosocomial infections (explanation of the concept, mode of transmission, types of nosocomial infections, prevention, medical facilities with risk).
  • Handling with sterile material (principles).
  • Preparation of the sterile field.
  • Basic surgical instruments(scalpel handle ofscalpel, surgicalscissors, scissorsfordressing wounds, pean, foradministrationtongs, tweezers, surgical, anatomicaland pathological, groovedprobesandamalletandclamps...).
  • Specifying preparation for the next seminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
2. / 25. - 29. 9. 2017
28. 9. 2017
- National Holiday - lessons will be replaced by the 4th teaching week /
  • Patient preparationforinvasive medicalexamination or operation(typesof preoperativepreparation, generalpreoperative evaluationand psychologicalpreparation of patients).
  • Caring for a patientafterthe invasiveprocedureor surgery(care ofthe pain, monitoringof physiological functions, position after surgery, nausea andvomiting,nutritionafter surgery, micturition, defecation,releaseofflatuses, thromboembolic disease prevention, care
    of the surgical wound).
  • Health care documentation(types, purposes, principles and recordsinthedocumentation).
  • Measuring physiological functions(blood pressure,pulse,breath, body temperature, consciousness).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
3. / 2. - 6. 10. 2017 /
  • Wound care.
  • Wound healing (per primam, per secundam).
  • Asepticwounddressing changes(procedure and principles).
  • The extractionofsutures(stitches types, tools and utilities, process
    and principles).
  • Drainsanddrainage systems(types
    of drainsand drainssystems, care of drainsanddrainagesystems).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
4. / 9. - 13. 10. 2017 /
  • Drugs (definition, terminology, effects
    of drugs, drug toleranceonset androute
    of administrationof drugs, notions: forte, biforte,foradultus,forinfantibus...factors affectingthe action of drugs, dosage forms, tools, procedures and principlesmedication...).
  • Drug administering(orallyto the nose, ear, eye, anus, vaginaetc.)
  • Inhalation (indication, types, procedure and principles for application).
  • Oxygen therapy(indications,applicators, applicationprocedure
    and principles ofsafe workwithmedicaloxygen).
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • (repeating the theory, practicing on simulators)
  • TEST: Repetition of topics discussed during the seminars
    in weeks 1 – 4.
  • PRACTICING basic procedures covered during the seminars
    in weeks 1 – 4.
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 1,5
1,5 / Pražanová
physicianfrom CENTESIMO / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
2.144
2.117
5. / 16. - 20. 10. 2017 /
  • Applying thebasicsof bandages(bandages, dressings,procedure
    andprinciples, basic types ofturns
    anddressingtechniques).
  • Bandagesof variousbody parts(head,shoulder, arm, forearm, palm and back of the hand, fingers, knee, shin, ankle, instep...).
  • Compressivebandageslegs (procedure andprinciplesforbandages, indications and contraindications...).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
6. / 23. - 27. 10. 2017 /
  • Preparation and application
    ofsubcutaneousinj. (explanation
    of the term, indications, injection site, most commonlyadministered medicines, insulin,anticoagulantprocedureand principles ofapplication, side effects).
  • Preparation and application
    ofintramuscular inj. (explanation
    of the term, indications, inj. site, procedureand principles ofapplications, exceptionsand peculiaritiesin childrenand thecachecticpatientsbyusing the “Z-tract”).
  • Thinning medicines(to dilutemedication, antibiotics, solutions
    fordilutionprocedureandprinciplesdilution, route of administration: bolusthrougha peripheralvenouscatheter
    toinfusion, injectiondispenser, examples
    of calculating theconcentration
    inthe diluteddrugs).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
7. / 30. 10. -
3. 11. 2017 /
  • Collection of biologicalmaterial- general principles andwork safety.
  • Tests of blood- venous(open and closed method of sampling, equipment, procedureand principles ofvenousblood collection, the most commonerrors).
  • Blood collection-capillary(indications,procedureand principles
    ofcapillaryblood sampling).
  • Types ofblood tests(biochemical,haematological, microbiological,
    and serological).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
8. / 6. - 10. 11. 2017 /
  • Immobilization syndrome(an explanation of the concept, causes, symptoms, prevention, treatment, positioning, pressure ulcers...).
  • Importance ofhygieniccare.
  • Patientsposition(the position preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic).
  • TEST: Repetition of topics discussed during the seminars
    in weeks 5 – 8.
  • PRACTICING basic procedures covered during the seminars
    in weeks 5 – 8.
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
9. / 13. - 17. 11. 2017
17. 11. 2016
- National Holiday - lessons will be replaced by the 11th teaching week /
  • Peripheralvenouscannulation(indications,the insertion site, cannulatedplace, possible complicationsafter its introduction, removal of a catheterthrombosis, Maddonclassification).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
10. / 20. - 24. 11. 2017 /
  • The i. v. injection(indication, injection site, complications of i.v. injection, procedure and policy forapplicationsbolusapplications, applicationsi.v.injectionintoa peripheralvenous catheter...).
  • Infusiontherapy (explanation of the term, indications, basic divisioninfusion preparations, utilities, procedureand principles ofthe infusion, infusion bottlesexchange, termination of infusion...).
  • Transfusion (history, indications, preparation andadministration at theadministration ofblood transfusions, complications oftransfusionapplications, management and monitoringof the patient duringand aftertransfusion...).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
11. / 27. 11. -
1. 12. 2017 /
  • Repetition of topics of seminars and practical trainings covered in weeks 1 – 10.
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
12. / 4. - 8. 12. 2017 /
  • Emptying the bladder(terms: diuresis, anuria, haematuria, stranguriaetc., indicatorsmonitoredbyurine, fluid balance).
  • Samplingforurinetests(techniques).
  • Urinalysis(species).
  • Bladder catheterizationin women and men(indications, types of catheters, tools, and principlescatheterizationprocedure...).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
13. / 11. - 15. 12. 2017 /
  • Nutrition and feedingpatients (methods andprinciples offeedingpatients).
  • Dietarysystemin the Czech Republic(basicand special diets).
  • Parenteral andenteralnutrition(speciesand routes of administration
    of parenteral andenteralnutrition).
    The introduction ofnasogastric tube(indications,patient preparation,equipment, procedure and principles
    for implementationnasogastric tube).
  • Specifyingpreparation for the nextseminar.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
14. / 18. - 22. 12. 2017 /
  • EmptyingGIT(terms: constipation, skybala andenterorrhagiaetc., drugs affectingdefecation: laxatives, antidiarrheal drugs, manual removal
    ofstool: indications,procedure
    andprinciples of, indicatorsmonitored
    by thebench).
  • Samplingforstoolexamination(techniques).Stool(species).
  • Enema(an indication and types of enema, equipment, patient preparation,procedureand principles ofapplicationenema, oddities ...).
  • Stoma care(indication and typesof stoma, stoma care,aids for stoma patients).
  • Gastric lavage(indicationand the procedure).
  • TEST: Repetition of topics discussed during the seminars
    in weeks 9 – 14.
  • PRACTICING basic procedures covered during the seminars
    in weeks 9 – 14.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills
15. / 2. - 5. 1. 2018 /
  • Repetition of practical skills.
  • Organizationofpracticingin the Center.
  • Questions, suggestions.
  • Evaluationof seminars
    andpractical training sessions.
  • Preparing studentsfor individualpracticalexercisesin thesummersemester. Information about
    summer clinical practice.
/ 3 / Pražanová / Center for Basic Health Care Skills

Completed by:Credit

Requirements:1) 100% attendance (all seminars and practical training sessions
as well).
2) Passing 3 continuous tests (at least 75% success rate).

Recommended literature:

  1. JIRKOVSKÝ, Daniel.Nursing procedures and interventions: textbook for Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes [online]. Prague: Motol University Hospital, 2014 [cit. 25. 5. 2017]. Available from:
  2. KOZIER, Barbara.Fundamentals of nursing: concepts, process and practice. 2nd ed. New York: Pearson, 2012. ISBN 978-0-273-73908-1.
  3. RICHARDS, Ann a Sharon EDWARDS.A nurse's survival guide to the ward. 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2012. ISBN 9780702051715.
  4. Student Nurse Journey [online]. Student Nurse Journey ©2015 [cit. 25. 5. 2017]. Available on:
  5. PPT presentations provided by lectures.

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