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Home pageFaculty of Health Sciences
Institute of Nursing and Obstetrics
 

st. Warzywna 1, 35-959 Rzeszów
phone no.: + 48 17 872 13 89
fax no.: + 48 17 850 13 84
e-mail: ins_piel@univ.rzeszow.pl

Director of the Institute
Prof. dr hab. n. med. Paweł Januszewicz

Vice-Directors
Prof. dr hab. n. med. Józef Ryżko,
Dr n. med. Monika Binkowska-Bury

There are 32 academic teachers employed in the Institute: 7 professors, 2 post-doctoral degree holders and 15 doctors, 8 Master's degree holders, 2 administration officers.

The Institute incorporates the following departments:

  • The Department of Nursing
      head prof. dr hab. n. med. Józef Ryżko
  • The Department of Obstetrics
      head prof. dr hab. n. med. Andrzej Skręt

Programmes offered by the institute

A full-time and a part-time 3-year vocational BA degree course in nursing
A full-time 3-year vocational BA degree course in obstetrics
A complementary vocational BA degree course in nursing and obstetrics for nurses and midwives with Secondary School Leaving Exams who are graduates in nursing or obstetrics of vocational schools.

The history of the Institute

The Department of Nursing and Obstetrics was founded 1 April in 2004. Its first director was prof. UR dr hab. Wrzesław Romańczuk. At the beginning the Institute belonged to the Faculty of Pedagogy. From
1 April to 4 June 2005 it was an interfaculty unit. Since 1 April 2006 the Institute has become a part of the Faculty of Health Sciences. The Faculty changed its name to the Faculty of Medicine on 3 April 2006 on the base of Rector's directive no 10/A/2006.

Educational activity

The Institute of Nursing and Obstetrics educates nurses and midwives on the basis of European standards. Syllabuses are consistent with EWG Council directives concerning nurses and midwives and their education as well as the directive concerning the academic recognition of diplomas enabling occupational mobility within the Community.
The Institute of Nursing and Obstetrics enables the students to:

  • educate to a high level according to EU directives
  • have lessons in different forms: lectures, classes, seminars, practical training
  • learn foreign languages
  • develop their interests in Students' Scientific Association of Nursing and Obstetrics.

The main areas of research

  • conceptions, models and theories in nursing
  • interpersonal communication in nursing
  • optimal nursing care of healthy and ill people
  • behaviour of children and adults
  • epidemiology of falling ill with cancer in the Podkarpacie voivodship

Thanks to Socrates/Erasmus programmes students of the Institute can study a part of their course in Uniwersidad de Zaragoza (Spain), Sakarya University (Turkey).

Under resolution no. 234/2003 PKA of 8th March 2003 on the "Assessment of the quality of Education" the Department of Nursing received a positive assessment.

Under resolution no. 621/2003 PKA of 9th October 2003 on the "Assessment of the quality of Education" the Department of Obstetrics received a positive assessment.

 
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