Clinical practice - Small animal clinic

Study programme: veterinary nurse full-time form of study
Teaching language:   english
Subject code: K-MZ/VetN-CP SAC/22    Short: VetN-CP SAC
  •  Credits: 3
  •  Completion method: Credit
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Form, course-load and method od study:
Form of study: Practical
Course-load: Per week:    -   Per study period: 120s (recommended, in hours)
Method of study: prezenčná
 
Prerequisites a following
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Teachers
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CONDITIONS FOR COMPLETION OF COURSE
Compulsory completion of the timetable according to the schedule of students in day, afternoon and night services, as well as mastering the mandatory practical tasks under the control of the veterinarian on duty. In order to award credit, students are given topics to process and subsequently submit to the Moodle system.
Learning outcomes
Clinical internships are the theoretical and practical preparation of bachelor's degree students to perform proper clinical care of animals. They will be practically educated and acquire skills during the internships that cannot be contained only on a theoretical level in lectures and exercises in this form of study. They will have direct contact with clients and veterinarians on duty, and because each veterinarian will demand and ask for work ideas and assistance from the students, the clinical internship will best describe the future profession of the graduate in this field of study for direct implementation into sharp practise at new workplaces.
Brief outline of the course
The solution according to current patients, all the requirements placed on the student by the veterinarians on duty: -Patient management: communication with the owner of the patient to ascertain the patient's anamnesis: admission, registration, identification, anamnesis, fixation, basic clinical examination according to the type of animal, diagnostic plan, differential diagnosis, treatment proposal.- Patient handling ability to fixate patient for examination, blood sampling ability, muzzle loading ability to load bite barrier made of bandage, clinical examination of patient. - Mastery of simple therapeutic actions: p.o. application, injection application s.c., i.m., i.v., collection of blood and other samples, introduction of i.v. cannulas, anal sac rinsing, enema application. - Clinical hematology and biochemistry. - Application of infusion therapy, recording of an ECG, measurement of BP, otoscopy, collection of material for cytological examination, catheterization, processing of the patient's protocol and its submission. - Assisting the veterinarian on duty in preventive and therapeutic ovariohysterectomy. - Pharmacological and surgical therapy of mammary gland diseases - Benign prostate hyperplasia in dogs. - Management of bitches mating and pregnancy of bitches. - Assisting the veterinarian on duty in the orthopedic, surgical and ophthalmological examination of dogs and cats.
Recommended literature
Orpet: Handbook of Veterinary nursing, 2010 ISBN: 1405145536·
Veterinary Care Act No. 39/2007
Act on private veterinarians, on the Chamber of Veterinary Physicians of the Slovak Republic
Conditions for completion of course
Continuous assessment:
Continuous evaluation of the student for cooperation and demonstration of skills according to the schedule and course of clinical practice, together with the completion of basic tasks and the processing of the assigned topic in the Moodle system.
Conditions for completion of course:
Compulsory completion of the timetable according to the schedule of students in day, afternoon and night services, as well as mastering the mandatory practical tasks under the control of the veterinarian on duty. In order to award credit, students are given topics to process and subsequently submit to the Moodle system.
Final assessment:
credit test
NOTES
Prerequisites: Anatomy, Physiology, Pathological Physiology, Pathological Anatomy, Basics of Pharmacology, Propedeutics
 
Evaluation of the course
Total number of evaluated students: 0
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Date of last modification: 11.04.2023
Approved by: Tutot Prof. MVDr. Alexandra Trbolová, PhD.
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