Content
- Lectures: 15 hours
- Seminar: 15 hours
- Independent work: 60 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. ORGANIZATION OF SERVICES FOR PREVENTION OF HOSPITAL INFECTIONS:
a. Organization of medical institutions and prevention and control of
nosocomial infections b. Legislation and documentation c. Organization of a
health-related infection prevention service 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF HOSPITAL
INFECTIONS a. Distinguish between colonization, contamination and infection
b. The problem of multiple resistant bacteria c. Water and food infections
d. Laboratory infections and prevention e. Environment and nosocomial
infections f. Outpatient disease epidemics and outbreak prevention in health
facilities g. Healthcare professionals as a source of infection h. Protecting
healthcare workers from infection in the workplace 3. HOSPITAL INFECTIONS –
SPECIAL GROUPS, SPECIAL UNITS, ANATOMICAL SYSTEMS AND MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS
a. Nosocomial infections in special groups of patients (newborns, the elderly,
immunosuppressed patients, burn patients, post-transplant patients)
b. Nosocomial infections of various anatomical systems (urinary tract,
gastrointestinal, CNS, respiratory) c. Nosocomial infections in connection with
medical procedures (endoscopies, surgical wounds, intravenous catheters, urinary
catheter) d. Prevention of tuberculosis bacillus transmission in healthcare
facilities e. Nosocomial infections in intensive care units and on hemodialysis
4. SEMINAR WORK – problem-based learning a. modern epidemics and work in
isolation b. current examples from practice