| 3. PROFILE OF SKILLS AND COMPETENCES |
General competences:
- be familiar with various methods of learning, use sources of information well, show functional literacy;
- understand assignments or identify the cores of problems, exert variable solutions, work both independently and within a team;
- communicate in one foreign language at the level of at least B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages;
- cope with changing socio-economic conditions, be financially literate;
- be aware of the labour market mechanisms, and of the employee-employer relationships, act on career decisions responsibly, understand the significance of lifelong learning;
- use basic mathematics and the basic principles of physics and chemistry when needed in daily situations;
- work with the means of information and communication technologies, exploit adequate sources of information, handle information effectively;
- act in an environmentally-conscious manner and in compliance with strategies for sustainability;
- support values of local, national, European and world cultures, recognize the value of life;
- exert fundamentals of health protection, occupational safety, and fire prevention and safety;
- exert norms and prescriptions in the field.
Vocational competences:
- provide or arrange basic nursing care without professional supervision in accordance with a diagnosis given by a doctor or dentist, and participate in the provision of specialized or highly specialized nursing care under the professional supervision or direct guidance of a general nurse, paediatric nurse or midwife, i.e. especially to provide nursing care in accordance with given procedures, legal regulations and standards;
- monitor the physiological functions, physical and mental condition of patients, enter such data in their records;
- provide comprehensive hygienic care and prevention of bedsores, provide diet and drinking regime for patients;
- draw off secretions from the upper respiratory tract of fully conscious patients older than 10 years and keep the tract unobstructed;
- administer and maintain inhalation and oxygen therapy, take capillary and venous blood and other biological material;
- examine capillary blood and biological material obtained non-invasively;
- treat uncomplicated chronic wounds, stoma and peripheral venous accesses;
- care for urinary catheters of patients older than 3 years;
- apply packs, compresses, healing baths, hot and cold therapies, provide rehabilitation nursing in cooperation with experts, including basal stimulation methods;
- practice self-dependence and social activation of patients in order to increase their self-reliance;
- participate in arranging for children’s play activities;
- perform activities during the acceptance, check, handling and storage of medicinal products and medical devices;
- administer medicinal products, with the exception of radiopharmaceuticals and preparations containing addictive substances, or in the form of intravenous and epidural catheters and intramuscular injections in neonates and children under 3 years of age;
- prepare patients for diagnostic and treatment interventions, provide nursing care during such interventions and after them;
- perform dental assistant activities.
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