Saúde
Basic Concepts of Physical Examination
CURSO
In-person
Target Audience
This extension course on Physical Examination is aimed at professionals and students in the health field.
Justification
The physical examination is a valuable tool for healthcare assistance, as it allows health professionals to validate the findings from the medical history, identify problems, establish diagnoses for care, plan and implement independent, interdependent, and dependent professional actions, and monitor the patient's progress.
In times of abundant technology available in the health field, some people forget the importance of the clinical examination for diagnosing and treating diseases. The clinical examination is divided into two stages: the medical history and the physical examination. From these, it is possible to obtain information about the patient's overall health status, identifying diseases through signs and symptoms. A sign is a physical characteristic that can be detected by the doctor, such as a skin lesion resulting from a fungal infection. A symptom, on the other hand, is a subjective characteristic reported by the patient, such as dizziness.
General Objective
To equip health professionals to perform physical examinations.
Specific Objectives
- Understand the general physical examination
- Perform the head and neck physical examination
- Perform the thoracic physical examination
- Perform the abdominal physical examination
- Perform the genitourinary physical examination
Course Content
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- General Physical Examination
- Head and Neck Physical Examination
- Thoracic Physical Examination
- Abdominal Physical Examination
- Genitourinary Physical Examination
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Ministrante
Karina Cardoso Gulbis
Holds a degree in Nursing with a specialization in Family Health from Unisul, a specialist in Didactics and Methodology of Higher Education, and a specialist in Nursing Practices for Critical Patients from Unesc. She has a Master's degree in Nursing from UFSC - Unochapecó, and a PhD in Health Sciences from Unesc. Currently, she is a full professor at Unesc. She is a stoma therapist and naturopath. She has a nursing practice in Criciúma - EMDOC (Nursing - Medicine and Documentation) - and works interdisciplinary (Medicine and Nursing) with both in-person and online courses, home visits emphasizing health promotion, primary health prevention (preventing bedsores, good health practices to avoid complications in chronic patients, guidance for TRM patients on self-care and achieving as much independence as possible). She has experience in Nursing, with an emphasis on Family Health Strategy, mainly focusing on the following themes: comprehensiveness, integrated care, nursing professionals, nursing, and health. She has experience in hospital emergencies, medical and surgical clinics, and radiological units. She is a full member of the Research Group on Collective Health and Social Control: a Right to be Realized from the Laboratory of Sanitary Law and Collective Health at Unesc. She is a member of Nepies - Center for Studies and Research in Comprehensiveness, Nursing, and Health - Unesc. She is a volunteer member of the Grupo Vida Ativa São José for Spinal Cord Injured Patients. Since 2009, she has been a reviewer member of the Ethics Committee for Research with Human Beings - Unesc. She is a member of SOBEST (Brazilian Association of Stomatherapy). She served on the board of ABEn from 2013 to 2016 and from 2016 to 2019. She is a member of ABEN - Brazilian Nursing Association and COREN - Regional Nursing Council - SC. She coordinates, guides, and provides assistance to people with stomas, wounds, and incontinence through extension projects, research, and volunteering.
