COURSE CODE: NUR_804
SEMESTER: 8 (Ανακοινώσεις)
TUTORIAL: 6 hours/week.
CLINICAL PRACTICE: 12 hours/week
CREDITS: 19
COURSE TYPE: Compulsory
COURSE WEBSITE: https://eclass.upatras.gr/modules/auth/opencourses.php?fc=157
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes
Upon completing the course, students will be able to:
• become familiar with the necessary theoretical and clinical knowledge regarding pathology of
the cardiovascular and respiratory system
• evaluate the patient’s needs from information obtained from the patient, his / her environment
and his / her medical-nursing history
• design comprehensive nursing care by prioritizing problems and defining nursing care goals for
cardiovascular and respiratory patients
• provide holistic and personalized nursing care
• evaluate the effects of care based on the principles of nursing as an art and a science
• apply the most appropriate methods and techniques in clinical practice
• interpret patients’ responses to early treatment and prevent complications
• describe the concepts of preoperative patient preparation
• evaluate symptoms and develop critical thinking on nursing diagnostics preoperatively,
intraoperatively and postoperatively
• provide personalized post-operative care to patients thus preventing and treating post-
operative complications
• comprehend the nurse’s role and participate in the multidisciplinary treatment group
General Competences
• Search, analyze and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Adapt to new situations
• Decision making
• Autonomous work
• Teamwork
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment
• Criticism and self-criticism
• Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
