Course: THE THEORY OD MIDWIFERY

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Course title THE THEORY OD MIDWIFERY
Course code KSZD/TPAA9
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Puhlová Eva, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lecture topics: 1. Definition and characteristics of midwifery. 2. History of nursing and midwifery, development of the midwifery profession. 4. The role of the midwife and its development, professional competencies and functions of the midwife. 5. Forms and methods of nursing care in midwifery. 6. Human needs, nursing process. 7. Assessment of the current needs of the client/family/community - 1st phase of the nursing process, documentation in midwifery. 8. Nursing diagnosis - 2nd phase of the nursing process. 9. Nursing care planning - 3rd stage of the nursing process (components of the plan, nursing care goals, VC, nursing interventions. 10. Quality of nursing care in midwifery. 11. Conceptual models and theories in midwifery, use of conceptual models of PA in practice. 12. Research in midwifery, EBM. Seminar topics: 1. Definition of the features of the field of nursing in PA. 2. Professional training and education of midwives. Professional organization of midwives in the Czech Republic and in the world. 3. Importance of professional organizations, objectives, activities, history and present, development, CKPA, UNIPA, ICM. 4. Features of the role - functional specifics, emotional neutrality, universalism, collective orientation; role of PA according to WHO 5. WHO European strategy for education, regulation, registration in midwifery. 6. Hierarchy of human needs, concept and meaning of basic nursing care. 7. Nursing history, methods, sources and types of data, observation, interview, physical examination, legal aspects of nursing documentation in midwifery. 8. Stages of the diagnostic process, formulation of nursing diagnosis, NANDA - Int. Taxonomy, implementation of nursing care and its evaluation. 9. Standards and norms, the most common types of standards in midwifery, criteria for standards - structural, procedural, outcome criteria; standard setters, 10. Models of interpersonal relationships in clinical practice. 11. Systems models of nursing in clinical pctice. Humanistic models in clinical practice.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course is conceived as theoretical and practical. It includes the theory of the field, history and development with a focus on midwifery and its important personalities, the methodology of the nursing process, human needs with an orientation towards women and children, nursing practices and multiculturalism. It addresses the problem of defining the basic concepts of the theory of the field, as well as the emergence, development and characteristics of the field as a modern discipline.
professional knowledge: Students can: - List metaparadigms and describe the relationships between health - illness - midwifery and the environment, - define human nursing care from a holistic philosophy perspective, - list the circumstances of the emergence and history of the nursing process, - define the concept of modern midwifery in the Czech Republic, - explain the roles of PAs, the regulatory system of the profession and the registration of PAs, - describe the specifics of research in midwifery. Professional skills: Students will be able to: - find information and resources on the activities of international and national professional organisations and use them to expand theoretical knowledge in the field, find documents of the WHO European strategy for midwifery education and use them to develop knowledge about the modern concept of midwifery care in the Czech Republic and Europe, use legislative knowledge to find information about the application of the midwifery profession in the European region. General competences: - The student is able to communicate his/her own professional opinions to professionals and the general public in a clear and convincing manner.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
80% active participation in class, credit test Examination: oral examination from the specified subject areas, verification of professional knowledge summarizing the content of the course Theory in Midwifery.
Recommended literature
  • GURKOVÁ, E. AND KOL. Selected nursing diagnoses in clinical practice. Martin: Osveta, 2009..
  • JAROŠOVÁ, D. & R. ZELENÍKOVÁ. Evidence Based Nursing. 1st ed. Prague: Grada, 2014. ISBN 978-80-247-5345-4..
  • KUTNOHORSKÁ, J. Research in nursing. Prague: Grada Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-80-247-2713-4..
  • MAREČKOVÁ, J. NANDA. International diagnostics in the nursing process, NIC and NOC classification. Ostrava: University of Ostrava, 2006. ISBN 80-7368-109-9..
  • Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic. Strategic documents for general nurses and midwives. Prague: MZČR, 2000. ISBN 80-85047-20-9..
  • NANDA INTERNATIONAL. NANDA. nursing diagnoses. Definition and classification 2009 - 2011. NANDA: NANDA NDA 2011 - 2011, 2011, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3423-1..
  • PAVLÍKOVÁ, S. Nursing models in a nutshell. Prague: Grada Publishing, 2006, 152 p. ISBN 80-247-1211-3..
  • PLEVOVÁ, I. ET AL. Nursing II. Prague: Grada Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3558-0..
  • PLEVOVÁ, I. ET AL. Ošetřovatelství 1. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3557-3..
  • SYSEL, D. and H. BELEJOVÁ. Theory and practice of the nursing process. Brno, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7399-289-7..
  • ŠAMÁNKOVÁ, M. ET AL. Human needs in health and illness. Prague, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3223-7..
  • TOMAGOVÁ, M., BÓRIKOVÁ, I., ET AL. Needs in nursing. Martin, 2008. ISBN 978-80-8063-270-0..


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): Midwife (P19) Category: Health service 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter