BSNE061p Nursing in Neurology - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
3/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Blanka Adamová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Štefánia Aulická, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Yvonne Benešová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Tomáš Boušek (lecturer)
MUDr. Jiří Búřil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Pavlína Danhofer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Barbora Deutschová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Irena Doležalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Ondřej Horák (lecturer)
MUDr. Tomáš Horák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Mgr. Milena Košťálová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Ivona Morávková (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Hana Ošlejšková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Martin Pail, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Aneta Rajdová (lecturer)
MUDr. Michal Ryzí, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Barbora Sklenárová (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Pavel Štourač, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Jan Vinklárek (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Eva Vlčková, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. MUDr. Yvonne Benešová, Ph.D. (deputy)
MUDr. Eva Zatloukalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Jana Aberlová (assistant)
Mgr. Ladislava Jagošová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Pavel Štourač, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Jaromíra Saláková
Supplier department: First Department of Neurology – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine (30,00 %), Department of Neurology – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine (40,00 %), Department of Pediatric Neurology – Institutions shared with the Faculty Hospital Brno (paediatric medicine) – Faculty of Medicine (30,00 %)
Prerequisites (in Czech)
BSIG0422p Nursing in internal medicine and geriatrics II - lecture
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main aims of the subject are: to become familiar with the content of neurology; to acquire an overview of the main diagnostic procedures in neurology, their risks and demands for a patient; to become familiar with clinical symptomatology, course and prognosis of main neurological disorders and their specifics with respect to nursing.
Learning outcomes
After successful completion of this course, the student will: know the basic neurological terms, neurological symptoms and syndromes; become familiar with the organization of care for neurological patients; become familiar with the clinical neurological examination; become familiar with the most common diagnostic methods in neurology, their indications and contraindications; become familiar with the most common neurological disorders (clinical symptomatology, course, prognosis); know specific features of the most common neurological disorrders with respect to nursing care.
Syllabus
  • Education is divided into ten 3-hour blocks.
  • 1. Introduction. Definition of neurology as a medical specialization and its place among other specialties. Multidisciplinary cooperation. Management of neurological patients especially stroke patients. In-patient and out-patient neurological care. Specialization in neurology. Basic principles of the anatomy and function of the nervous system, basic terms.
  • 2. Fundamentals of neurological symptomatology. Movement disorders: pareses, diskinesias, myoclonias, speech disorders. Sensitive, sensory, autonomous disorders. Clinical neurological bed-side examination.
  • 3. Fundamentals of topical diagnosis and syndromology. Main neurological topical syndromes. Case record in neurology.
  • 4. Basic developmental principles of the nervous system. Specifics of neurological disorders in infancy and childhood.
  • 5. Basic diagnostic procedures in neurology I. Imaging methods: X-ray exam, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, angiography, lumbar puncture and examination of the cerebrospinal fluid, biochemical tests.
  • 6. Basic diagnostic procedures in neurology II. Electrodiagnostic methods: electroencephalography, electomyography, evoked potentials. Fundamentals of neurorehabilitation.
  • 7. Basic pathophysiological mechanisms in neurological disorders. Vascular disorders of the brain.
  • 8. Epilepsy, neoplasms of the nervous system, headache.
  • 9. Neuromuscular, spondylogenic a demyelinative neurological disorders.
  • 10. Traumatic, infectious and metabolic disorders of the nervous system. Conclusions.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • • Vlčková E, Adamová B, Bednařík J (eds.): Základy obecné neurologie pro studenty bakalářského studia ošetřovatelství a porodní asistence. Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2018 (published online in IX/2018, available at http://portal.med.muni.cz/clanek-674-za
  • • Vlčková E, Adamová B, Bednařík J (eds.): Základy speciální neurologie pro studenty bakalářského studia ošetřovatelství a porodní asistence. Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2018 (published online in IX/2018, available at http://portal.med.muni.cz/clanek-675
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
Lectures and discussions; final oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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