Caregiving for Adults II
Module: Module Nursing Care from Birth to Death
Matter: Nursing Care for Adults
Main language of instruction: Catalan
Other languages of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
Dr. Alberto GALLART - agallart@uic.es
Office hours
Students can contact teachers preferably from 9.50 to 10.10 (by appointment via e-mail), or after school.
CARE OF ADULT II
Module: Module III. Care since the beginning of life to death
Language of instruction: Catalan, Castilian, English.
Schedule:
LD 10:10 h to 14:00 h
DM 10:10 h to 14:00 h
DC 10:10 h to 12:00 h (except week 6 and 7 which is 10 to 14h)
DJ 10:10 h to 12:00 h (except week 8 which is 10-14h)
DV 10:10 h to 12:00 h
The subject of Adult Care II aims to provide the tools to plan and carry out nursing activities aimed at prevention and health promotion and at care of nephrological, endocrinal, traumatological, dermatological, ophthalmological, otolaryngological and neurological problems as well as of problems with the articular muscles. In addition, in this subject, the student will be trained to provide comprehensive healthcare to the patient with a chronic or acute condition in any of the aforementioned systems stated.
Not required, although to successfully take the subject, it is considered important to review/go over the knowledge of anatomy and physiopathology of the systems aforesaid.
Once the subject "Adult Care I" is successfully completed, students will be able to:
Unit 1. IMMUNIZATION IN ADULTS
Unit 1.1. Immunizations in Adults.
Unit 2. NURSING CARE TO PEOPLE WITH ENDOCRINE DISORDERS
Unit 2.1. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care the person suffering an endocrine pathology.
Unit 2.2. Nursing care for people with an acute process of endocrine pathology.
Unit 3. NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH RENAL DISORDERS
Unit 3.1. Nursing care for people suffering acute processes of renal pathology.
Unit 3.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person who presents a renal pathology.
Unit 4. NURSING CARE FOR THE NEUROLOGICALLY IMPAIRED
Unit 4.1. Attention to people with acute neurological disease.
Unit 4.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person who has a neurological disease.
Unit 5. NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WHITH DERMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Unit 5.1. Nursing care to people with an acute dermatological pathology.
Unit 5.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person who presents a dermatological pathology
Unit 6. NURSING CARE FOR THE PEOPLE WITH ARTICULAR MUSCLE ALTERATIONS
Unit 6.1. Nursing care for people with acute articular muscle pathologies.
Unit 6.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person who has a muscle articular pathology.
Unit 7. NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH OPHTHALMIC DISORDERS
Unit 7.1. Nursing care for people with an acute ophthalmic pathology.
Unit 7.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person with an ophthalmologic pathology
Unit 8. NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH ALTERATIONS OTOLARYNGOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Unit 8.1.Nursing care to people with an acute otorlaryngological pathology.
Unit 8.2.Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person with an otolarynogological pathology.
Unit 9. NURSING CARE IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
Unit 9.1. Nursing care to people in emergency situations
Unit 10. CASES IN PRIMARY CARE
Unit 11. PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING
Unit 11.1. Palliative Care: An Introduction - basic palliative care concepts
Unit 11.2. Palliative care in adults
Websites of interest:
Spanish Association of vaccines http://www.vacunas.org/
http://www.gencat.es/sanitat
Citing documents:
http://www.uic.es/es/citar-documentos?seccio=2
How to cite electronic resources: http://www.ub.edu/biblio/citae-e.htm
Vancouver criteria: http://www.fisterra.com/recursos_web/mbe/vancouver.asp
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