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First Aid, Ethics and Psychology in Health Care

Summary

Managing essential emergency procedures and measures in case of a sudden deterioration in health due to illness or injury. First aid in situations of imminent threat to life. Orientation in legal and organizational issues of first aid. The subject is also conceived as a theoretical and practical unit. He is familiar with the issues of general psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology and medical psychology. It deals with the role of psychological states in the area of diagnostic and therapeutic activities, the provision of psychological assistance to patients during treatment and the treatment of chronic diseases. These principles of psychology are based on ethical and legal norms, with the meaning of mandatory confidentiality and patient rights, the principles of communicating truth to the patient and the principles of ethical code in the health care system.

Literature

1. Health care ethics : critical issues for the 21st century. Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett, c2009. xiv, 441 s. ISBN 9780763745264 
2. CONSTANTINO, Maria. The first-aid handbook. Leicester: Silverdale Books, 2003, 256 s. ISBN 1856057348 

Advised literature

1. Alan Cribb. Health and the good society : setting healthcare ethics in social context. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2005.xiv, 236 s. 9780199242733.
2. Linda Brannon, Jess Feist. Health psychology : an introduction to behavior and health. Belmont : Wadsworth, c2004. xxii, 593 s. : il. ISBN 0534506003 
3. First aid: manual. 9th revised ed. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2011, 288 s. ISBN 9781405362146 
4. MOORHEAD, Sue. Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): measurement of health outcomes. 5th ed. St. Louis: Elsevier, c2013, xix, 751 s. ISBN 9780323100106 


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina
Code 450-4092
Abbreviation PPEaPV
Course title First Aid, Ethics and Psychology in Health Care
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator PhDr. Radka Bužgová, Ph.D.