EUROPASS CERTIFICATE SUPPLEMENT (*)

Czech Republic
 
1. TITLE OF THE CERTIFICATE (CZ)(1)
Vysvědčení o maturitní zkoušce z oboru vzdělání:
53-41-M/03 Praktická sestra (denní studium)
(1) In the original language
 
2. TRANSLATED TITLE OF THE CERTIFICATE(2)
Maturita Certificate in:
53-41-M/03 Practical Nurse (full-time study)
(2) This translation has no legal status.
 
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.
 
4. RANGE OF OCCUPATIONS ACCESSIBLE TO THE HOLDER OF THE CERTIFICATE 
The graduate can find employment in inpatient and outpatient health care facilities and in home nursing care, as a health worker in social service facilities, especially in long-term care facilities, social care institutions, in care centres for people with disabilities, geriatric care facilities and hospice and respite care facilities.
 
5. OFFICIAL BASIS OF THE CERTIFICATE
Name and status of the body awarding the certificate
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Name and status of the national/regional authority providing accreditation/recognition of the certificate
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Karmelitská 7
118 12 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Level of the certificate (national or international)

Upper secondary education completed by the Maturita examination
ISCED 354, EQF 4
Grading scale
Result in the general section – success rate in % Czech language and literature, foreign language: more than 87 % to 100 % excellent - 1
more than 73 % to 87 % commendable - 2
more than 58 % to 73 % good - 3
44 % to 58 % sufficient - 4
0 % and less than 44 % insufficient - 5
Mathematics and Advanced Mathematics:
more than 85 % to 100 % excellent - 1
more than 67 % to 85 % commendable - 2
more than 49 % to 67 % good - 3
33 % to 49 % sufficient - 4
0 % and less than 33 % insufficient - 5
Pass requirements
1 excellent (výborný)
2 very good (chvalitebný)
3 good (dobrý)
4 satisfactory (dostatečný)
5 fail (nedostatečný)
Overall assessment:
Prospěl s vyznamenáním: Pass with Honours (the average mark is ≤ 1,5)
Prospěl: Pass (an examination mark is not worse than 4)
Neprospěl: Fail (the examination mark in one or more subjects is 5)
Access to next level of education / training
ISCED 655/645/746, EQF 6 and EQF 7 (EQF7 only for Long first degree programmes at Master’s)
International agreements
Legal basis
Law No. 561/2004 on pre-school, basic, secondary, post-secondary and other education (School Act) as amended by later regulations
Law No.96/2004 on conditions for the acquisition and recognition of competences for performing non-medical occupations and activities connected with medical care as amended by later regulations (the law on non-medical occupations) and regulations relating to this issue
Ss. 22 and 24 of the Decree No. 177/2009 Coll., on Detailed Conditions for Completing Education by the School-leaving Examination in Secondary Schools, as amended.
 
 
6. Officially recognised ways of acquiring the certificate
Description of vocational education and training received Percentage of total programme Duration
  • School- / training centre-based
70 2 896
  • Workplace-based
30 1 200
  • Accredited prior learning
   
Total duration of the education / training leading to the certificate 4 years / 4 096 lessons

stamp and signature

Done at Prague for the school year 2023/2024

Entry requirements

Completed compulsory school education
Additional information

More information (including a description of the national qualifications system) available at: EQF, EURYDICE, NPI

 

National Pedagogical Institute of the Czech Republic – National Europass Centre Czech Republic, Senovážné nám. 872/25,
110 00 Praha

 

 
(*) Explanatory note
The Certificate supplement provides additional information about the certificate and does not have any legal status in itself. Its format is based on
the Decision (EU) 2018/646 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 on a common framework for the provision of better
services for skills and qualifications (Europass) and repealing Decision No 2241/2004/EC.
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