The institution co-responsible for the Project, the Faculty of Health Studies (FHS) of the University of Pardubice (UPa), will participate in the project through two of its clinics: The Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery Clinic and the Neurology Clinic, which are located on the grounds of the Pardubice Regional Hospital. The co-investigator and his colleagues will participate in the development of the diagnostic and therapeutic standards for dysphagia (?the dysphagia standard?) within their profession and subsequently, these standards will be integrated into a united diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm and will be applied to practice (Mandysová, Ehler, Škvrňáková, otorhinolaryngologist, speech therapist). In the 1st and 2nd year of the research project, workers of the FHS will be responsible mainly for implementing a nursing dysphagia screening method, Brief Bedside Dysphagia Screening (BBDS) * into practice (Mandysova et al., 2011). The BBDS method was developed in the workplace of this co-investigator during research that preceded this project. In year 1, the method will be implemented in the workplace of the principle investigator (at the workplace of the co-investigator, the method will have been used since 2011) and as of year 1, the method will be implemented in nursing study programmes at the FHS at the bachelor and master levels (Mandysová, Škvrňáková). At the same time, user-friendliness of this method will be studied, as well as its intra-rater and inter-rater reliability. Between year 1 and 4 of the project, the BBDS method will be used to evaluate swallowing function of patients with cerebrovascular accident (in the post-acute phase, which is characterized by improving functional status of the patient, and in the chronic phase, during which the patient's functional status remains the same). Using the patients' acute hospitalization data, obtained from their medical records, their swallowing function in the acute phase of their illness will be compared to data about their current swallowing abilities, as obtained through the BBDS. The aim is to describe the evolution of their swallowing function as they progress from the acute to the post-acute and chronic phase of their illness. Next, the aim is to identify the average amount of time needed to examine one patient using the BBDS, which enables to judge the tool's practicality (Mandysová, Škvrňáková, nurse).

The aim of the project is to develop a portable audiometer and specialized methodology for telemetry examinations of the human auditory system. The proposed solution is based on a combination of unique calibratable measuring device and a commercially available smartphone. The combination of these devices greatly reduces the final cost of medical measuring device while maintaining the quality and relevance of measurements.

The aim of the project is to create a Competency Model for education and performance of a general nurse and certified methodologists
to determine the needs for staffing of general nurses for providing health care in the context of demographic changes in the Czech
Republic and suggestions for optimal number of students to be accepted in the upcoming years to the general nurse qualification
(university and higher education). The intention of the investigators is to analyze and optimize competencies, and to train general
nurses. The project will therefore be carried out in two areas, namely in the field of competency analysis and in the determination and
prediction of the required number of nurses. Both outputs will be achieved during the year 2020.

Chemosensoric perception (taste and smell) in unjustly neglect issue in medical public. Nowadays Czech ENT clinics are depend on subjective evaluation methods. There is need for objective methods (not only in Czech Republic). A deterioration of alfactory and gustatory function can be one of the first symptoms of serious illnesses ? e.g. tumors, neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease) and psychiatric diagnosis (schizophrenia). Nowadays Czech ENT clinics are depend on subjective evaluation methods. There is need for objective methods (not only in Czech Republic). The target equipment enables objective olfaktometry based on measuring of inhaled and exhaled air flow in patient who is exposed to pleasant and unpleasant odorants. The use of this device is non-invasive for the patient and easy and inexpensive for user.

The project is based on the Long-term Plan for the educational and scientific, research, development and innovation, artistic and other creative activities at the University of Pardubice for the period 2016 - 2020. The project aims to support the work of academics and innovation in teaching the subjects Anatomy and Urgent Medicine and Disaster Medicine. By means of this project will be upgraded educational models for the above mentioned subjects. The effectiveness of planned project promotes interdisciplinary and cross-curricular use of models that are detailed in the supplement.

It is a project under the Erasmus Plus European programme, more precisely the key activity number 2 ? Strategic partnership in professional education in educational institutions. If approved, the project will be realized in October 2016 ? October 2019. To realize the project the Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice, is going to have their own budget.
The main coordinator of the project is Agence Erasmus+ France, the other partners are Belgium and Switzerland. The Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice, has been approached together with educational institutions in Portugal and Sweden.
The main purpose of the project is to increase the quality of provided perioperative care by determining the procedures / standards, their implementation into practice and the follow-up evaluation of these procedures / standards. The target group will be nurses in operating rooms and academic staff and students focussing on surgery and perioperative care. The role of The Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice, is going to be the preparation of a questionnaire, validation of the questionnaire, dissemination of the questionnaire in the Czech Republic, and analysis of collected data.
Part of the project is going to be a participation in six international meetings with partners and presentation of the project results. The project is going to run in cooperation with professional organisations of scrub nurses from the involved countries.
The Faculty of Health Studies realisation team consists of four members of the academic staff and one member of the administrative staff.