Learning objectives

The course aims to provide the student with technical-practical, relational, problem-solving and organizational skills in safe setting, before clinical practice in clinical environment with patients, in order to reduce the emotional impact that comes from real situations and guarantee ethicality and safety to patients. For these reasons this course represents a prerequisite for the clinical practice. It also offers to student the opportunity to train himself in applying the theoretical principles to practice situations. The main skills of the first year of the Bachelor Degree are: measuring vital parameters, hand hygiene, choice and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), setting up a sterile field, staging and treatment of a pressure injury , take care of the person's body, apply the principles of ergonomics, carry out the person's positioning / transfer and assisted positioning maneuvers, assessment skills and objective examination.

Program

Grips and mobilization techniques
Measure vital parameters
Collect data through objective examination techniques
Perform venous sampling

Didactic methods

For practical skills labs: exercises on mannequins at the simulation center in small groups. For cognitive skills development labs: classroom exercises in medium groups on clinical or relational situations.

Learning assessment procedures

At the end of the course the clinical tutor will evaluate the student's performance taking into account regular attendance and the level of participation and knowledge shown by the students.

Evaluation criteria

Possession of theoretical prerequisites
Technical and manual skills
Active participation

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

approved/not approved

Exam language

italiano