Course title | ECTS Credits | Semester | Teacher | Annotation |
Compulsory courses | ||||
Professional language (English) | 4 | Autumn | Violeta Kamantauskienė | While studying the course, students learn to use professional terms in the foreign language and use the information sources necessary for the specialty, i.e. dictionaries, reference books, encyclopaedias, Internet websites, databases. They also develop professional language reading, listening, writing, speaking and translation skills. |
Family planning and sexual education | 3 | Autumn | Gerimantas Čerkauskas | After studying the “Sexual Education and Family Planning” subject, students will know the variety of modern family planning tools, will be able to give individual counselling on family planning issues, and assist the doctor in introducing intrauterine family planning tools. |
Gynecological nursing | 3 | Spring | Gerimantas Čerkauskas | Students will analyze the anatomical, physiological, and psychological characteristics of patients with gynecological diseases, identify and assess their needs, and select criteria for evaluating the outcomes of nursing care for these patients. They will understand the goals of gynecological care, evaluate the factors contributing to gynecological diseases in women of different ages, provide nursing care to patients with gynecological conditions, and participate in gynecological disease prevention programs within the scope of a midwife’s competence. |
Paediatric care and nursing | 3 | Spring | Edita Balašova | Students will analyze anatomical, physiological and psychological characteristics of the children of different ages, the impact of cultural, social, economic, political and environmental factors on the age child’s health, will identify and assess the child”s and his/her family needs, choose the ways for the children of different age care goal achievement and criteria for the outcome evaluation, will nurse the children of different age, will be able to communicate with children of different age and their family members/ caregivers as well as with other health care professionals, to disseminate professional experience. Students will know the organization order of palliative care, the principles of teamwork and team members’ activities in a palliative care team. They will understand the legal and ethical aspects of palliative care, assess and identify physiological, psychological, and spiritual needs and problems of the patient, will raise the objectives of nursing care and choose methods and tools for the implementation of care of a patient in the last stage of life, will be able to collaborate with the patient’s relatives, integrate them into the process of care. |