Our target is: preparing students to provide high-quality care for healthy and sick people in their place of residence and in health care institutions stimulating the comprehensive development of students, developing sensitivity to the needs of other people and preparing them for permanent improvement developing students’ analytical and critical thinking skills to enhance care outcomes creating an atmosphere of cooperation, sharing achievements, responsibility for the quality of the team and for raising the profile of the profession, preparing students to conduct research in nursing in order to enrich professional theory and practice, as well as research development and their professional development.
Full-time studies in nursing are addressed to people who do not have professional preparation. In the field of nursing, we offer foreign language learning in an extended dimension.
NURSING HAS ACCREDITATION OF THE MINISTER OF HEALTH FOR 5 YEARS AND ACCREDITATION OF THE MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION FOR 5 YEARS
First-cycle studies last 6 semesters. The number of hours of classes and internships should not be less than 4815. The number of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) points should not be less than 180. The diploma examination, after submitting the diploma thesis, should include checking the knowledge and practical skills. The university may implement the program without the participation of an academic teacher in the group of basic content for 15 hours and in the group of major content for 30 hours in each field.
Practical training
The development of practical skills is carried out in natural and simulated conditions (nursing skills laboratories, specialist laboratories). Practical training is carried out on the basis of the university’s own database and in medical enterprises on the basis of concluded contracts. Practical classes and apprenticeships are carried out in the wards of the Provincial Hospital in Włocławek and other regional hospitals, as well as in home, community and school nursing centers and hospices. Practical classes are carried out under the direction and direct supervision of an academic teacher. Apprenticeships are carried out under the supervision of a person conducting the practice (a nurse), an employee of a given company of a medical entity. Supervision over the implementation of apprenticeships is exercised by the tutor of apprenticeships at the university. During practical education – practical classes and professional practice – in the field of basic nursing care and specialist care, a first-cycle student acquires skills including: independent practice of the profession in accordance with the principles of general and professional ethics as well as a holistic and individualized approach to the patient, respecting and respecting his rights; recognizing the patient’s health conditions and needs; promoting health and health education of individuals and social groups; recognizing patient care problems; planning and providing patient care; independent provision of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation services in a specific scope, as well as performing medical rescue activities; undertaking cooperation with members of the therapeutic team in the process of prevention, diagnosis, therapy, rehabilitation and nursing; independent adjudication on the type and scope of care and nursing services; organizing a hospital and home care environment; organizing and planning work at one’s own workplace; preparing the patient for self-care and the caregiver for patient care.
Conditions of graduation and obtaining professional title
A bachelor’s degree in nursing is obtained by a graduate of first-cycle studies in the field of nursing, who: 1) in terms of knowledge, has: a) detailed knowledge of nursing, b) general knowledge of other medical sciences, c) knowledge of legal regulations, ethical standards and deontology relating to the practice of the nursing profession; 2) in terms of skills is able to: a) use current knowledge to ensure safety and a high level of care, b) provide services in the field of promoting, maintaining health and preventing diseases, c) provide comprehensive and individualized care for a disabled and dying patient, d) independently practice the profession, in accordance with the principles of general and professional ethics and a holistic approach to the patient, taking into account respect and respect for his rights, e) organize his/her own work; establish cooperation in healthcare teams.
NAMES OF MODULES
- Anatomy
- Biochemistry and biophysics
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Genetics
- Microbiology and parasitology
- Pathophysiology
- Radiology
- Physical education (PE)
- Pedagogy
- Medical law
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Public health
- Foreign language
- Ethics in professional nursing practice
- Physical examination
- Dietetics
- Nursing work organisation
- Primary health care
- Fundamentals of nursing
- Health promotion
- Health information technology (HIT)
- Hospital-acquired infections
- Optional modules: sign language / Collaboration in health care teams
- Anaesthesiology and nursing in life-threatening situations
- Theory and research for nursing
- Surgery and surgical nursing
- Internal medicine and nursing
- Geriatrics and geriatric nursing
- Neurology and neurological nursing
- Palliative care
- Paediatrics and paediatric nursing
- Long-term care nursing
- Fundamentals of emergency medicine
- Obstetrics, gynaecology and obstetric-gynaecological nursing
- Psychiatry and psychiatric nursing
- Fundamentals of rehabilitation
- Dissertation (Bachelor of Nursing)
- OHS Training (Occupational Health and Safety Training)
- Library Training
