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Medical care in dispensary care
• Development and organization of primary health care with an emphasis on nursing in dispensary activities;
• Nursing at the primary health care level: areas of work of the nurse and the main tasks of nursing;
• Healthcare activity at the primary healthcare level:
o Work methods in primary health care;
o Dispensary method of work and its importance in the context of nursing;
o Basic health activity (example of the organization of health centers) with an emphasis on the role and tasks of the nurse in the dispensary;
o Development and operation of reference outpatient clinics;
o Prevention in primary health care
o Nursing care and treatment of a patient with a chronic disease within the framework of primary health care.

Health care in outpatient care

• Development and organization of activities in community care;
• Principles and aspects of community healthcare;
• Tasks and methods of work in outpatient health care;
• Medical care of the individual, family and community in activity in community care;
• Fields of nursing work in outpatient health care;
• Prevention in outpatient health care:
o The role of a registered nurse in outpatient care;
o Levels of preventive activity in outpatient care
o Preventive visits in outpatient care according to the Rules for the implementation of preventive health care at the primary level;
o Implementation of upgraded preventive treatments in outpatient care (Instructions for the implementation, recording and billing of services in outpatient care):
 Preventive treatment of children, newborns and infants;
 Preventive treatment of chronic patients;
 Preventive treatment of non-responders to preventive programs (state screening programs and preventive examinations in the family medicine clinic);
 Preventive treatment of an older person;
 Preventive treatment in the field of chronic non-communicable diseases – integrated screening;
 Consideration in the local community;
• Nursing diagnoses and activities of nursing providers in outpatient healthcare;
• Identifying the needs of patients in outpatient health care and providing nursing care according to the work process method;
• Palliative care and care in outpatient care:
o The role of the visiting nurse in palliative care;
o Palliative care planning and patient management at home
• Long-term care (LTC):
o Definition of long-term care
o Legal aspects of long-term care in Slovenia
o Assessment of the patient’s needs for long-term care in outpatient care;
• Documentation in outpatient nursing;
o Documentation tasks and basic principles in documentation;
o Documentation in outpatient nursing;
o Information system in outpatient nursing;
• Categorization of patient and family in outpatient nursing.