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Operation Theatre Table
The operation theatre table: the types and their movements, the hydraulic and electromechanical drive, the accessories and attachments, the positioning of the patient for different procedures, the radiolucent tops, and the maintenance and safety checks.
Surgical Diathermy Machine
How a surgical diathermy machine works: the high frequency current used to cut and to coagulate, monopolar and bipolar action, the waveform and power control, the return electrode, and the hazards of misuse in theatre.
Anaesthesia Machines and Respirators
Clinical engineering notes on anaesthesia machines and respirators: the principle of anaesthesia, the circuit and the vaporiser, the ventilator modes, the monitors and alarms, and the pre-use checks and maintenance carried out on each.
Primary Healthcare Strategic Framework
Kenya's primary healthcare strategic framework as signed: the situation analysis, the policy direction, the strategic pillars for community, facility and referral care, the financing and workforce arrangements, and the monitoring framework. The reference document for community health questions in the nursing and clinical medicine exams.
Psychology for Nursing Practice
Complete psychology notes for nursing: the module outcomes, the concepts of psychology and their historical background, the scope of the discipline, personality development across life, motivation and emotion, and the application of psychology to the care of patients and clients.
Introduction to Human Psychology
Introduction to human psychology: psychology as a science, the models used in the discipline, its scope, and the basic concepts of behaviour, motive, drive, instinct, attitude, prejudice and values, with the application to the management of patients and clients.
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to sociology for health students: the origin of the discipline and how it grew country by country, what sociology studies, the relationship between sociology and other sciences, culture, socialisation, social structure and social institutions.
Medical Sociology
Medical sociology notes: illness as a social concept, the sick role, the relationship between the patient and the health worker, the social determinants of health and disease, and how hospitals and clinics function as social institutions.
Hospital Plant Questions
Year 2 semester 2 Hospital Plant and Building Services questions: the cold chain, vaccine refrigerators for sites with intermittent power, how to choose a medical refrigerator, why hospitals need cooling, the vapour absorption and vapour compression systems, refrigerants and absorbents, coefficient of performance, temperature monitoring devices and the maintenance practices done on a refrigerator.
Haematology Analyser Principles
Working notes on the haematology analyser: the impedance and light scatter methods, the counting chamber and flow cell, the parameters reported for a full blood count, the quality control run each day and the faults that make results drift.
Human Psychology for CHA
Eighty hour human psychology module for community health assistants, with the module competence, the learning outcomes and the content outline: human development, sensation and perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, personality and the psychological disorders met in community work.
Physiotherapy Practice and Equipment
Physiotherapy equipment and practice notes: what physiotherapy treats and how, manual physical therapy, the Graston and McKenzie techniques, the exercise equipment, ultrasound and electrotherapy devices, mobility aids and walking aids used in a physiotherapy department.
