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A-level certificate in Gereral Nursing
1. EUROPASS CERTIFICATE SUPPLEMENT (*)
Czech Republic
1. TITLE OF THE CERTIFICATE (CZ)(1)
Vysvědčení o maturitní zkoušce z oboru vzdělání:
53-41-M/001 Všeobecná sestra (denní studium)
(1) In the original language
2. TRANSLATED TITLE OF THE CERTIFICATE(2)
Maturita Certificate in:
53-41-M/001 General Nurse (full-time study)
(2) This translation has no legal status.
3. PROFILE OF SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
General competences:
be well informed about culture, history and the present of the Czech nation within the European and world context;
formulate views and attitudes verbally and in writing, communicate in at least one other foreign language, use technical terminology;
educate themselves, work in an effective way and assess impartially results;
be able to adapt themselves to the changing conditions of life and work, work well in a team and be responsible for assigned tasks;
work with information, use ICT;
be able to use basic mathematics and the basic principles of physics and chemistry when needed;
know the present rights and duties of employers and employees and know how to conduct a job search;
act in an environmentally-conscious manner and in compliance with strategies for sustainability;
apply the fundamentals of health, occupational safety, and fire prevention and safety.
Vocational competences:
provide nursing, preventive and educational care for children in different age categories, substitute nursing of adults;
diagnose on the basis of nursing anamnesis and nursing plans, to assess results of nursing care;
interview patients and their families, to collect necessary information;
provide safe and suitable surroundings for treatment and to comply with treatment regimes;
satisfy biological, psychological and social needs of clients/patients;
monitor and assess physiological functions with the senses and with instruments;
perform screening examinations, orientation biochemical examinations of urine and examinations for glycaemia, take samples of biological
materials, and assess examination results;
dress acute and chronic wounds;
perform catheterizations of urinary bladder of women and adolescent girls over the age of 10 and irrigations of urinary bladder women, men
and children over the age of 10;
resolve problems related to nutrition and evacuation;
administer medicines through the digestive tract, skin, conjunctival sac, vagina, respiratory tract, intramuscular and epidermic injections,
intravenous and epidermic injections and infusions (excluding intravenous injections and infusions, to administer infusions to newborn
babies);
apply (under direct supervision of physician) or assist with application of intravenous blood derivates produced by fractioning of human
plasma;
make ECG records, monitor and assess them;
administer and maintain oxygen therapy;
prepare patients for diagnostic and treatment interventions, assist with such interventions, perform them according to physicians'
instructions, provide during such interventions nursing care;
participate in instrumentation in the operating theatre;
work with medical instrumentation, follow safe work methods while doing so;
perform according to instructions from a physiotherapist or ergotherapist rehabilitation nursing and prevention of immobility disorders;
carry on activities related to patients' admission, transfer, discharge and death;
maintain nursing records and work with health information systems;
educate patients;
provide assistance and advice to clients or patients with social and health problems;
provide premedical first aid, participate in medical first aid, crisis aid and intervention;
support health of individuals, families and groups, cooperate on implementation of programs aimed to improve the state of health of the
population;
participate in research projects and collection of information;
lead nursing teams and help to run general and specialist practices;
cooperate with organizations providing follow-on health and social care.
4. RANGE OF OCCUPATIONS ACCESSIBLE TO THE HOLDER OF THE CERTIFICATE
The graduate will find employment in all types of health facilities, as a health worker in social service facilities or in private nursing, in particular
in child care, to a standard defined for general nursing (health worker qualified to work in the health sector without specialist supervision).
