DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, ALLERGOLOGY AND
GENERAL PATIENT CARE
Clinical bases of the Department are Ternopil University Hospital,
Gastroenterological and Hematological Departments
Address: Ternopil, Clinichna str. 1
Adress: Kotsyubynsky Str. 3,
Ternopil, 46001, Ukraine
Tel.: (0352) 43-09-27, 520584
E-mail: nursing@tdmu.edu.te.ua
Pic 1. The Head of the Department – Hospodarsky Igor Yaroslavovych M.D.
The Department staff:
Head of the Department – prof. Hospodarskyy Igor Yaroslavovych
Professor Kit O.M.
6 associate professors – Yastremska S.O., Rega N.I., Davydovych N.Ya.,
Zarudna O.I., Lokai B.A., Usynska O.S.
7 assistant professors – Konovalenko S.O., Maksymova V.V., LepyavkoKrekhovska O.M., Yavorska I.V., Horodetsky V.Ye., Sydorenko O.L.,
Mazur L.P.
2 laboratory assistants – Shevchuk V.Ya., Rybalka T.Yu.
Education
In October, 2005 the general patient care Department was founded as a part
of the Institute of Nursing to optimize the teaching of general patient care in
surgery, therapy and pediatrics. The name of the Department had been changed
into Clinical Immunology, Allergology and General Patient Care since December,
2007. The Department is located in the repaired educational building № 7.
Pic 2. The Department staff
There were created modern computer class,
2 lecture rooms, practical skills lab and educational room.
Pic 3. Students work in the computer class
Pic 4. Assistant Professor Rega N. I. with students in the practical skills lab
Currently the Department of Clinical Immunology, Allergology and General
Patient Care provides teaching process by the following curriculums:
Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Program –the 1st and the 2nd year of
study.
Baccalaureate Nursing (BSN-RN) Program (training of bachelors in
nursing by American curriculums) – the 2nd and the 4th year of educational
programs (BSN (4y)).
General patient care course for sophomores of the Medical
Faculty (phantom course).
Students of the 5th course of the Medical Faculty (Clinical Immunology
Course).
Students of the 5th course of
the Dentistry
Department (Clinical
Immunology Course).
Doctors-Interns of the Post Graduate Faculty (Clinical Immunology and
Allergology Course).
MSN (Clinical Nursing).
Students of the distant form of education (BSN, MSN).
The textbook “Practical Nursing” was edited by rector of TSMU
Kovalchuk L. Ya. and published in 2011. This textbook is about the nursing
manipulations scheme.
Students are taught according to the one day methodic system class. The
educational rooms are thematically equipped according to the cycles of discipline.
Clinical work
The lecturers of the Department are also doctors in the gastroenterological,
rheumatological, pulmonological, endocrinological, haematological and surgical
units. Professor I. Ya. Hospodarsky is the curator of the gastroenterological unit
and Associate Professor B.A. Lokay is the curator of the haematological unit of the
Ternopil University Hospital.
There are 2 regional medical centers which were created in 2010-2011. The
Department and University Hospital staff works there:
•
Regional Center of Gastroenterology with Haematology (director
I. Ya. Hospodarsky). This center includes 35 beds of the gastroenterology unit and
office of the clinical gastroenterologist of the polyclinic.
• Regional Center of Clinical Immunology and Allergology (director
I. Ya. Hospodarsky). This center includes 5 beds of the gastroenterology unit (the
highly qualified help is provided to the patients) and 5 beds of the pulmonological
unit, office of the clinical immunologist/ allergologist of the policlinic,
immunology lab.
Pic 5. Proff. Hospodarsky I. Ya. during the clinical round in the gastroenterology
unit of Ternopil University Hospital
There is a great cooperation with leading research and clinical laboratories of
Ukraine, where cytogenetic, molecular genetic researches are carried out as well as
immunophenotyping of immunocytes and cells of marrow to verify the diagnosis
and increase the quality of medical treatment. The medical staff of the clinic has a
great personal experience in polychemiotherapy of oncohematological diseases
according to the standards and protocols approved by the Ministry of Health
Care of Ukraine.
Pic 6. The curator of the unit Lokai B. A. and resident doctors of
Haematology Department of the Ternopil University Hospital
New diagnostic
technologies introduced in
the
clinic: developed and tested technique of differentiated determination of types
of cryoglobulinemia,
determination
of antigens and genetic
material of
viruses in cryoprecipitate, introduced the
determination
of
populations and subpopulations of
lymphocytes by monoclonal
antibodies,
computer intragastric pH-metry. The medical staff of the clinic discover the
changes of mineral density of bone tissue in patients with chronic leukemia on
two-photon densitometer LUNAR DPX-A.
New medical technologies
are introduced in
the
clinic: proposed and
tested combination of pegylated interferons for chronic viral hepatitis, the usage of
intravenous
immunoglobulins for viral pneumonia and autoimmune syndromes
and diseases. The technology of the immunotherapeutic means application for
patients
with hepatitis C resistant to antiviral therapy
is
developed.
Intravenous monoclonal antibodies for autoimmune diseases were used for the first
time in the Ternopil region. The diagnostic and medical technologies developed by
the medical staff of the clinic are protected by patents for inventions.
The Institute of Nursing Staff made 5 grant researches under the supervision
of prof. Hospodarsky I.Ya. There are 4 international clinical researches in process.
The main themes of the scientific researches:
Immunopathology of chronic viral hepatitis and other
infectious diseases;
Immunopathology of the reactive and rheumatoid arthritis and other
autoimmunity diseases;
Allergosis and bronchial asthma;
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The clinic is a training basis for Ukrainian and foreign students of the Medical
Faculty, Institute of Nursing interns who are trained in Ternopil State Medical
University.
Pic 7. Assistant Professor Horodetsky V.Ye. together with foreign students make
pleural puncture.
Among the prospects of the clinic development are increasing the
opportunities for diagnosing diseases using immunophenotyping of peripheral
blood cells and bone
marrow, cytogenetic and molecular genetic methods
of
research and creating conditions for high-dose chemotherapy protocols, autoand allotransplantation of bone marrow.
It is planned to continue and to improve the cooperation between the leading
international immunological, gastrointestinal and hematologic centers with the
internship of doctors, to introduce new diagnostics and therapeutic technologies.
Research
The Department is a joint participant of the following scientific-research
themes:
•
Interuniversity and interdepartmental scientific-research devoted to the
epidemic and pandemic influenza and possible complications (supervisor:
corresponding member of the NAMS, prof. L. Ya. Kovalchuk);
• Interdepartmental scientific-research devoted to the optimization of general
inflectional diseases treatment (supervisor: corresponding member of the NAMS,
prof. M.A. Andreychun).
The department is involved in the publication of the professional magazine
for Ukrainian nurses “Nursing”. The Institute of Nursing in TSMU offers all
interested specialists to cooperate.
In 2007-2011 the Department staff took part in the Ukrainian-Netherland
project supported by MATRA project “Support and improvement of the nursing
care for older people by Public Community” involving authority, community,
Netherlands specialists, press. This project includes the following stages:
- care of older people, who needs care;
- family medicine with nurses involved;
- cooperation between different institutions to provide continual care.
Staff of the Department and Institute of Nursing was the coordinator of this
project in Ukraine.
Pic 8. Official meeting during the MATRA program (Enschede,
Netherlands) 2008
Since 2006 the Department staff organizes the nationwide conferences with
international participation. The aim of these conferences is to improve Nursing in
Ukraine on the contemporary international level. The senior management of the
Heath Care System and Medical Educational Institutions of Western Europe and
the USA took part in these conferences.
Three international conferences “Immunology during the respiratory diseases”
are carried out together with the propaedeutics of Internal Medicine Department.
The delegations from Poland, Russia, Byelorussia and the USA took part in these
forums.
The Department staff participates in the International Project BUPASCAN
about epidemiology of bronchial asthma (Ukraine-Poland-Byelorussia-Canada
2010-2011).