Practical exams at the Department of Health Care Sciences
18. June 2021From 19 April to 30 April, the Department of Health Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities held practical examinations of students of the Bachelor’s degree programme Midwifery and Nursing. Due to the pandemic situation, the Department used the practice classrooms at U18, which are provided with the state- of-the-art equipment, and the premises of U14 in the hospital campus of the Tomáš Bata Regional Hospital, which the Institute uses for student practice.Strict compliance with applicable hygiene regulations was a matter of course. The examiners prepared the conditions for testing knowledge and skills in this important discipline so that the situation replicated testing in clinical conditions.
PRACTICAL EXAMINATIONS – NURSING
The students drew a case report containing basic information about the patient and an assessment of his/her current health status. The task was then to determine nursing diagnoses and plan nursing interventions and implement these with the patient.
The practical examinations were designed to be as close as possible to the clinical practice examination. In the practical classroom, the students drew a case study of an imaginary client of a patient for whom they had to determine nursing diagnoses and design nursing interventions. The examiners selected which of the nursing skills interventions the students would demonstrate on simulators, mock models, or training devices. Part of the practical exam was also responding to the examiners’ questions, where the connection between theoretical knowledge and practice was verified. Students had to defend the intervention, its implementation and justify their actions and answer questions.
In this way, 44 students in the Nursing programme passed the practical examination (31 of them in the full-time form, 13 in the combined form of study).
PRACTICAL EXAMINATIONS – MIDWIFERY
The aim of the examination was to check the students’ readiness to practice the profession of midwife. Also, for the Midwifery programme, the practical examinations were prepared to be as close as possible to the examination in clinical practice. In the practice room, the students drew a case study of an imaginary “patient” in the following departments: labour ward, six-week ward, neonatal ward, or gynaecological ward. They were given a practical task to perform on simulators, dummies, or training devices. The examination included a debate with the examiners where the students presented the process of care in midwifery, justified their actions, and answered questions.
In the midwifery programme, which the faculty runs exclusively as a full-time programme, 17 students passed the practical examination in this way.