Course: Nursing Practice Methodology

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Course title Nursing Practice Methodology
Course code OSE/VOK58
Organizational form of instruction Lesson + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Prušová Eva, Mgr.
  • Machálková Lenka, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Education of general nurses in the Czech Republic and worldwide, Basics of general pedagogy. Curriculum, syllabus, thematic plan, interdisciplinary relations. Basics of general didactics. Didactic principles. Educational methods, objectives and their taxonomies. Didactics of clinical practice in nursing. Mentor and his/her personality, typology of teachers, self-improvement and professionalism development. Motivation of students in the field of nursing. Educational methods and organizational forms of education in nursing. Significance and forms of evaluation in teacher's /mentor's work. Methodology of supervising nursing practice, pedagogical documentation of the mentor. Evaluation of students on a clinical workplace - progressive and final.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Observation, Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
The course presents students with the knowledge of pedagogy and general didactics necessary for the work of a mentor of clinical nursing practice. Students are acquainted with the system of professional training of general nurses in the Czech Republic, with their futher educational possibilities and legislative regulations. It also familiarizes with the profile of a graduate and the creation of the nursing study program, students´competencies and their achievements in practice. The course is designed both as theoretical and practical basis of general didactics and nursing care didactics. Practical training and the application of knowledge in the work of a mentor, i.e the teacher of nursing in a clinical practice, is also part of the course.
Students will be acquianted with the education of health care as a system; they will be able to identify the characteristics of its particular elements and the system itself as an open systém. Students will be acquainted with the structure and function of educational institutions as an organization. Students will be able to carry out a pedagogical practice in the conditions of clinical nursing care. Students will know the particularities of practice leading by a mentor for the discipline of a general nurse.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary)

Seminar paper.
Recommended literature
  • Andragogika.
  • Časopis Řízení školy.
  • Orbis Scholae.
  • Paidagogos.
  • Pedagogická orientace.
  • Studia paedagogica.
  • DVOŘÁKOVÁ, M., ŠERÁK, M. (2016). Andragogika a vzdělávání dospělých: vybrané kapitoly. Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy.
  • GREEN, Elizabeth. (2015). Building a better teacher: how teaching works (and how to teach it to everyone). New York.
  • HERBERT, Anna. (2018). Didactics, learning and leadership in higher education: understanding strategy development. London.
  • Jedlička, R., Koťa, J., Slavík, J. (2018). Pedagogická psychologie pro učitele. Psychologie ve výchově a vzdělávání.. Praha: Grada.
  • KUBEROVÁ, Helena. (2010). Didaktika ošetřovatelství. Portál.
  • OBST, Otto. (2017). Obecná didaktika. Olomouc.
  • Podlahová Libuše a kol. (2013). Didaktika vysokoškolského učitele.
  • SUSAN B. BASTABLE. (2020). Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice.. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Vališová Alena, Kovaříková Miroslava. (2021). Obecná didaktika a její širší pedagogické souvislosti v úkolech a cvičení.
  • Zormanová, L. (2017). Didaktika dospělých. Praha: Grada.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences Study plan (Version): General Nursing (2020) Category: Health service 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer