The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

The course introduces the student to the general and Clinical Nursing fundamentals. The program achieves to develop students’ knowledge relatively to general concepts of care and take care of the person and the family, ethical principles that inspire and guide the practice of care, the clinical methodology for identifying the patients’ needs and how to plan nursing activities and outcomes’ evaluation.

Program

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MM: INFERMIERISTICA GENERALE
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The process of Nursing professionalisation, the legislative sources of acting professional, the principles and ethics that guide the care model , with particular reference to the Code of Ethics, the nurse’s profile, and the arrangement of the plan of studies; The evolution of health concept, the determinants of health, risk factors, preventive measures , health education; The concept of disease, the meaning of illness and disease, the acute and chronic disease, the experiences and reactions to the disease; The places of care and the organization of the National Health Service. The theoretical foundations of the caring, the basic principles of caring nursing (centrality of the patient and the family, presence, supervision/surveillance, comfort,-diagnosing, self-determination, continuity of care, intimacy and touch, confidentiality and respect for privacy in patient care). The family’s and community’s role as health resource and support to the patient.
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MM: METODOLOGIA CLINICA INFERMIERISTICA
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The principles of an healthy diet, the data needed to evaluate nutritional status (eating habits, anthropometric data, laboratory tests), the alterations of the nutritional function (obesity, overweight, and malnutrition), the principles to assist a person during the recruitment of the meal; Principles of a good sleep habit, physiologic effects of spleeping, the interventions to manage the person with sleep disorders (legs without resting, apnoeas night, insomnia in the elderly, the factors that hinder the sleep in the hospital (noise in environments of care). Principles of a healthy mobility, physical exercise and alterations. Definitions of physical exercise, tolerance, sedentary lifestyle, mobility. The principles in the measurement of vital signs (blood pressure, pulse, respiration rate, pulse oximetry, and body temperature), measurement mode, normal values and definition of alterations. The main alterations of thermoregulation (hyperpyrexia, hyperthermia hypothermia) and being able to identify the nursing’s care to the person with a fever. The prevention and treatment of bedsores.
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MM: ASSISTENZA CHIRURGICA GENERALE
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Syllabus: Main objectives and helpful interventions in the pre-surgery phase: - To give preoperative informations to get the surgical agreement from the patient; - To evaluate the type of surgery and the risk of surgical site infection; - To recognize basic principles of drug therapy in perioperative period and antibiotic prophylaxis; - Surgical nursing preparation: preoperative showering and hair removal, oral hygiene, bowel preparation, food recommendations; - To prevent thromboembolic complications; - To consider the patient’s space and intimacy. Main objectives and helpful interventions in the postoperative period: - Postoperative mobilization and vigilance, the resumption of peristalsis and food habits; - To manage wound dressing and drainage’s manegement.

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Examination Methods

Written exam consisting of multiple choice questions and open questions.