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						| 3. PROFILE OF SKILLS AND COMPETENCES |  
						| General competences: 
 General competences has been acquired under previous education.
 
 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. |  |