Teaching code

4S000109

Credits

8

Coordinator

Simonetta Friso

Language

Italian

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

The course aims to investigate physio pathological, clinical and care aspects of some important health problems selected considering their epidemiological relevance and feature in situation of clinical instability but above all in chronicity/disability. The course considers changes deriving from aging and from chronic degenerative problems increase. The approach focuses on the recognition and management of current and potential problems with a view to continuity in different care settings and on development of competencies and self-care skills. GERIATRICS: The course aims to deepen the physiopathological, clinical and care aspects of some priority health problems selected based on their relevance epidemiological and exemplary both in the situation of clinical instability but above all in the chronicity / disability. Consider the resulting changes aging population and the increase in chronic degenerative problems. The approach focuses on the recognition and management of problems current and potential in a perspective of continuity in different care contexts and on the promotion and development of skills and s+J32elf-care skills. CLINICAL NURSING IN MEDICINE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: Knowing how to describe the sphere of palliative care and identifying objectives and methods of taking charge of the people involved and their families Identify the most approp+J32riate approaches to the individual phases of the disease pathway. NURSING IN CHRONIC DISEASE The module aims to deepen the physiopathological, clinical and care aspects of some priority health problems selected based on their epidemiological relevance and exemplarity both in the situation of clinical instability but above all in the chronicity / disability. Consider the changes resulting from the aging of the population and the increase in chronic degenerative problems. The approach focuses on the recognition and management of current and potential problems in a perspective of continuity in different care contexts and on the promotion and development of skills and self-care skills. INTERNAL MEDICINE The module aims to provide knowledge on the physiopathological processes and the main diagnostic-therapeutic pathways of the main clinical pictures such as liver cirrhosis, pneumonia and bronchopulmonary foci, gastritis and gastric ulcers, chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, acute and chronic renal failure . With reference to the illnesses treated, the student, on the basis of knowledge, must be able to: a) recognize the main signs and symptoms of the diseases treated and b) acquire some basic hints for therapeutic management. REHABILITATION MEDICINE to acquire knowledge about concepts of disablement,disability and handicap, neuro-Motor rehabilitation Bladder’s neurologic rehabilitation and rehabilitation of patients with hip and knee’s prosthesis NEUROLOGY: To acquire the basic knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the central and peripheral nervous system, of the etiopathogenesis, of the physiopathology of the main neurological syndromes, the principles of treatment and the type of supportive care ENDOCRINOLOGY: Nursing knowledge and skills in the diagnosis, management and treatment of diabetes mellitus and other major endocrine diseases.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Students are required to possess basic knowledge related to cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry and human physiology and pathophysiology of the main organs and systems with particular reference to the cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, gastrointestinal and hematopoietic systems.

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Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final exam is based on a multiple-choice test. The total number of questions relating to each single module of the integrated course, will be proportionate to the teaching hours of each topic. Usually, each question will have only one correct answer among those proposed. For some courses, including clinical nursing of chronic diseases, the questions may be opened or they will be composed as the presentation of a brief clinical case.
The final score will refer to the integrated course as a whole.