| Prerequisites and co-requisites |
- Principles of healthcare and nursing
- Nursing assessment 1 and 2
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| Course content |
Assessment of diabetes mellitus
- Anatomy and physiology of the endocrine system
- Diabetes - clinical picture including diagnosis and treatment including secondary illnesses
- Nursing diagnoses including an estimation of the risk and prevention such as
- "peripheral circulatory disorder" or "non-compliance"
- Evidence-based interventions based on the nursing diagnoses mentioned
- Interprofessional treatment objectives and strategies to treat diabetes (including nutritional and insulin therapy) in adults and elderly people
- Evaluation of the care outcomes
Assessment of the abdomen
- Typical clinical pictures of the gastrointestinal tract: e.g. ileus, disorders involving vomiting and diarrhoe, cholecystits
- Typical clinical pictures of the urogenital tract: e.g. testicular cancer, prostate cancer, benign prostate hyperplasia, lower urinary tract infection, urethritis, adnexitis
- Recording physical parameters
- Relevant nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and evaluations of the care outcomes
Assessment of the neck, nose, ears and head
- Anatomy, physiology and pathology
- Recording physical parameters
- Relevant nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and evaluations of the care outcomes
Assessment of the central and peripheral nervous system
- Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
- Detection of stimuli by the sensory organs
- Clinical pictures of stroke and Parkinson's disease (including diagnosis and treatment)
- Relevant nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and evaluations of the care outcomes
- Pathophysiology
- Focus of care in people with dysphagia including emergency situations as a result of aspiration
- Relevant nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and evaluations of the care outcome
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| Learning outcomes |
Students
- will be able to integrate aetiological and medical knowledge into their selection of nursing interventions
- will be able to describe the effects of chronic illness on those affected and their relatives
- will be able to create a trojectory model for chronic illness an carry out a symptom-focused assessment of the areas described
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
- Preparatory tasks
- Lecture
- Recording physical parameters
- Case studies
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
Written and practical examination |
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| Comment |
Students must be willing to have their physiological parameters recorded under instruction and to record these parameters for their peers. |
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| Recommended or required reading |
- Battegay, Edouard (Hrsg.) (2013): Siegenthalers Differenzialdiagnosen. 20. Auflage. Stuttgart. Thieme.
- Doenges, Marilynn E.; Moorhouse, Mary Frances; Murr, Alice C. (2013): Pflegediagnosen und Maßnahmen. 4. Auflage. Bern: Hogrefe.
- Füessl, Hermann S.; Middeke, Martin. (2014): Anamnese und Klinische Untersuchung. 5. Auflage. Stuttgart: Thieme.
- Hehlmann, Annemarie (2016): Leitsymptome. 7. Auflage. München: Urban und Fischer.
- Hopcroft, Keith; Forte, Vincent (2013): Differenzialdiagnostische Tabellen. Bern: Hans Huber.
- Schaufelberger, Mireille u.a. (2013): Alarmsymptome der Medizin. Neuhausen am Rheinfall: Editions D&F GmbH.
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| Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning) |
Face-to-face course with compulsory attendance |
