Red Cross Medicine College

"Nurse Studies" (4172300)

The conception of the study program "Nurse Studies" (4172300) envisages, that by mastering this program, the students acquire first-level higher professional education. Duration of studies as provided bythe program is 3 years or 6 terms of full time studies. The program involves 120 credit points. The required previous education is general secondary education or 9-year basic education and 4-year secondary vocational education. The gained qualification – Nurse. Study program “Nurse Studies” (4172300) has been accredited by December 12^th , 2011. Study program “Nurse Studies” (4172300) has been coordinated with the program of “Nurse Studies” for bachelors degree of Riga Stradina University which gives the possibility to continue the program of second-level higher professional education.

The acquirable contents of the program is divided into 3 parts:

Compulsory part (A) – involves the standard of first-level higher professional education and is obligatory precondition for obtaining qualification of nurse, the proportion of which in the volume of credit points is 60%.
Compulsory option part (B) – a student has the right to choose various additional program modules, the proportion of which in the total amount of credit points is 30%.
Free option part (C) – a student can choose study courses of another scientific branches, the proportion of which in the volume of credit points is 10%.

The objectives of the study program “Nurse Studies” (4172300):

Secure acquiring of first-level higher professional education in Nurse Studies.
Train professional nurses who are able to satisfy public health care needs.
Enable professional growth and give the possibility to prepare for obtaining second-level higher professional education.
Ensure the basis for the knowledge and skills, which are needed in scientific approach of care.

Tasks of the study program “Nurse Studies” (4172300):

Apply the nursing process by helping individuals, families, groups of people in case of different health problems to achieve the commonly set aims.
Synthesize health promotion, maintenance and rehabilitation in care for individuals, families and groups.
By critically thinking apply acquired knowledge in humanities, care and the associated sciences, provide care for different individuals.
By means of efficient communication skills collaborate with patients and health care team members in practice to meet the needs of different patients in health promotion maintenance and rehabilitation.
Prepare, implement and evaluate the patient teaching plan to satisfy their needs for health promotion, maintenance and rehabilitation.
Integrate care theories, which secure approval of clinical decisions and improvement of nursing practice.
Integrate the conception into professional nursing practice about uniqueness of every person and respect to his life.
Implement and take responsibility for acquiring education and professional growth in nurse profession.
Provide knowledge in organization and management of nursing work.

The tasks of the study program are directly included in the contents of the study program and in the tasks of separate study years and courses:

Nr. p.k.	1^st year of studies	2^nd year of studies	3^rd year of studies
1.	Use the nursing process to satisfy individual’s basic health needs	Use the nursing process to help the individuals with frequently encountered clearly typical health problems to achieve commonly set tasks	Use the process in order to help families, groups of people in cases of complicated problems to achieve commonly set health tasks.
2.	Make use of the conceptions of health maintenance to render safe health care to individuals in satisfying basic health needs.	Make use of health rehabilitation conceptions to give safe individualized care within the limits of ethical and legal possibilities to satisfy health needs of individual clients in cases of frequently met, really typical health problems.	Use health rehabilitation conceptions to give holistic care, within the limits of ethic and legal possibilities to families, groups of people in cases of complicated problems.
3.	Apply selected knowledge from the domain of humanities, care and the related sciences to give basic care to the individual.	Call into being critical thinking when applying selected knowledge from the domain of humanities care and the related sciences to give care to individual clients in cases of frequently met really typical health problems.	Call into being critical thinking when applying knowledge from the domain of humanities, care and the related sciences to render care to families, groups of people in cases of complicated health problems.
4.	Use the basic skills in communication to satisfy the individual’s health maintenance needs.	Use medical communication skills to satisfy the health maintenance needs of individual clients.	Introduce collaboration process using effective communication skills to satisfy health maintenance needs in families, groups.
5.	Implement teaching and learning principles to give basic care to the individual in his health maintenance needs.	Use teaching and learning principles to realize beforehand a worked out training plan for satisfying individuals' health rehabilitation needs.	Formulate educating plan to satisfy health promotion needs for families and groups.
6.	Understand the meaning of research in nursing care practice.	Use interpreted research findings in nursing care and corresponding nursing care theory in planning.	Analyse selected research findings and nursing care theories to use them in nursing practice.
7.	Acknowledge individual’s uniqueness and identify necessity to respect life from conception to death.	Provide the care for individuals who demonstrates conviction about uniqueness of every person and his value showing respect from conception to death.	Implement the care for family, group and/or community which spreads conviction about uniqueness of every person and his human value and respect to life form conception to death.
8.	Realize problems in health care system.	Be aware of influence on care giving left by the selected trends and problems.	Verify the influence of problems on the practice of professional care.
9.	Realize the need to study and improve one’s professional role throughout the life.	Initiate plan for studying and perfection of the professional role throughout the life.	Adhere to the plan for studying and perfection of the professional role steadily throughout the life.
10.	Manage the care of the individual client in satisfaction of basic health needs.	Manage the care along with other health care specialists for the group of individuals in case of frequently met typical health problems.	Perfect management skills to take care of families, groups in cases of complicated problems.