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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

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 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.

The process of Nursing professionalization, 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 places of care and the organization of the National Health Service.

Examination Methods

Written and oral exam