All the students are obliged to pass a practice in the range of min. 60 hours in a hospital abroad (prefferably in their homecountry).

This practice must be carried out during the summer vacation after your second year.

When completing the practice, students are asked to deliver the confirmation to English Study Department (scan or photo via e-mail is enough).

Sylabus and Confirmation can also be downloaded from: Lékařská fakulta v Plzni | Univerzita Karlova (cuni.cz)

Those, who will pass this practice, should inform the hospital that the following knowledge and skills should be gained:

Organization of nursing care at the ward
Approach of the staff members to the patient
Care of patient´s beds and bed tables
Toaleting, grooming, dressing, feeding, bathing, and hygiene of the patient. Dietary system.
Skin and mouth care. Decubiti prevention and treatment
Care of immobile patients
Basic physical rehabilitation
Heart rate, blood pressure and temperature measurement
RBC sedimentation measurement
Urine examination at the ward
Taking of the biological samples for laboratory investigation
Disinfecting at the ward, instrument sterilization
Assistance at the ward rounds and doctor´s procedures
Oxygen therapy
Critical care nursing
Nursing of terminally ill patients
Drug administration (peroral, intradermal, subdermal, intramuscular, but not intravenous – only in direct supervision)