Course Details

1. Explain the general concepts and principles of administration, principles of Nursing management, development of management theories, international theoretical management frame of Nursing Services and Leadership
2. Explain how to organize Nursing services, communication, evaluation - control in nursing administration
3. Implement practical knowledge associated with providing specialized nursing care to people hospitalized in specialized units, Intensive Care Units (ICU)
4. Describe the therapeutic approaches and the implementation of assessment and planning skills, as well as the implementation of the appropriate nursing care for critically ill patients.
5. Organize and provide care to patients with mechanical life support, during extubation, taking blood gases, endotracheal suctioning, and catheter Billow.
6. Assess needs and implement nursing care plans for continuous patient monitoring, taking vital signs, connecting patient with ECG, with devices CVP and, with catheter Swan-Ganz.
7. Inform, train and supervise patients and their families on using nursing skills, interventions / activities in order to enable them for the provision of optimal care to the patient at home.

Clinical Practice IV is completed by students in clinical areas with guidance and supervision by clinical instructors so as to comprehend and apply in real situations the theory they were taught in the modules: Intensive Care Nursing, Nursing Management and Clinical Practice I, II, III, such as:

Patient admission in intensive care units

Continuous patient monitoring (monitoring)

Taking vital signs

Connecting patient with ECG

Connecting patient with CVP devices

Connecting patient with Swan-Ganz catheter

Drug delivery

Measurement of fluids

Laboratory tests

Preparation and care of patients with mechanical life support

Preparation and care for patient extubation

Take blood gas

End tracheal suctioning through end tracheal tube

Preparation and support catheterization for CVP, patient care

Preparation and support Billow catheter, patient care

Parenteral nutrition

Feeding a patient with gastric tube

Personal hygiene

Management and Administration of a Nursing Unit

Organisation and Staff Development

Design of nursing work

Organisation and planning of nursing care

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• Carol Taylor, Fundamental of Nursing – The art and science of Nursing care, 5th Edition, USA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
• Peter F Lawrence, Essentials of General Surgery. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2005.
• Ken Hillman, Gillian Bishop, Clinical Intensive Care and Acute Medicine. Cambridge University Press 2004.
• Philip Woodrow, Intensive Care Nursing Routledge (UK) 2000.
• Wyatt J, Oxford Handbook of AE medicine, Oxford University Press Oxford 2006
• Harison R, Επείγοντα Παθολογικά Προβλήματα Νοσηλευτικής, Π.Χ. Πασχαλίδης 2007
• Jean A. Proehl RN MN CEN CCRN FAEN, Emergency Nursing Procedures, Saunders 2008
• Emergency Nurses Association Sheehy's, Emergency Nursing: Principles and Practice Mosby, 2009

In clinical teaching, demonstrations and supervised (by clinical instructors) nursing interventions applications are used.