| Course Unit Title | SURGICAL NURSING II |
| Course Unit Code | NUR304 |
| Course Unit Details | |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 6 |
| | Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:- Indicate factors that interfere with the healing of trauma
- Employ appropriate nursing care interventions for the prevention of surgical wound infection and the trauma care
- List the principles of burns prevention
- Assess the nursing care needs of burned patients
- Evaluate the perioperative nursing care needs of patients with head and brain injury, spinal cord lesions, brain tumours, spinal cord tumours, chest, pelvis and hip injuries, scoliosis, limbs injuries and limbs amputate
- Practice appropriate perioperative nursing for patients undergoing surgery to treat head and brain injury, spinal cord lesions, brain tumours, spinal cord tumours, chest, pelvis and hip injuries, scoliosis, limbs injuries and limbs amputate
- Assess the needs of cardiovascular patients
- Practice appropriate nursing care for cardiovascular patients during perioperative period
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
| Prerequisites | NUR210 | Co-requisites | NONE |
| Recommended optional program components | NONE |
| Course Contents | Nursing care of patients with trauma
Nursing care of burned patients
Assessment and nursing care of patients with musculoskeletal injuries
Assessment and nursing care of patients with head and brain injury and spinal cord lesions
Nursing care of cardiovascular patients |
| Recommended and/or required reading: |
| Textbooks | - P. Lemone, K. Burke, Medical-surgical nursing: critical thinking in client care (3rd ed.) (Greek Translation) Athens: Lagos Medical Editions, 2007
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| References | - SC. Dewit, Medical-surgical nursing: concepts and practice (Greek Translation) Paschalidis Medical Publication, 2009
- C. Taylor, C. Lillis, P. LeMone, Fundamental Principles of Nursing (Greek Translation) Paschalidis Medical Publication, 2006
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer-based presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks.
Lectures are supplemented with clinical practice.
During clinical teaching students are trained at cardio surgery units, burn and plastic surgery units, orthopaedic departments and chest units to develop further their clinical skills.
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| Assessment methods and criteria | | Assignments | 20% | | Tests | 30% | | Final Exam | 50% |
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| Language of instruction | Greek |
| Work placement(s) | YES |
