Teaching code

4S000090

Credits

8

Coordinator

Barbara Rossi

Language

Italian

Location

BOLZANO

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

The course introduces the student to the basic concepts of major diseases and the fundamental pathogenetic processes, allowing them to correlate cellular homeostatic mechanisms to alterations of the organ functions and clinical manifestations of disease. Students will understand the basic principles of pharmacology, especially in pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic mechanisms, and the benefit and risk profile of the drugs. The course will helps students to develop an approach oriented to prevention, assessment and management of respiratory, urinary and intestinal function alteration and the multidimensional assessment of pain. PHARMACOLOGY: The course aims to provide general knowledge about the functions and the use of drug therapy, in the fields of pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance. Concepts of pharmacology are essential to the development of the nurse's own skills in management and control of drug therapies, as well in patient education. This course is preparatory to the study of the individual classes of drugs, which starts with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial drugs and will be completed in the clinical pharmacology module. SEMEIOTICS AND PHYSIOPATHOLOGY: The course introduces the student to the fundamental concepts of pathophysiology and semiotics, implicated in the activation of organ damage and in the development of the main diseases. The information necessary for understanding the set of events leading to the disease will be selected using a practical approach. Any further details will be reserved for the lessons that specifically deal with the organ and the apparatus. Every fundamental alteration will be explored within a specific organ and the different peculiar manifestations of the organ itself will be clarified. The lessons will also include the semeiotic part, describing the objective signs that characterize diseases. The treatment of semeiotics will be performed after treating the pathophysiology of the various organs. At the end of the course, students must be able to know the general mechanisms that lead to the disease and to identify their characteristics. CLINICAL NURSING I and II: The course offers the contents and the assistance methodology related to person's needs and to "fundamental" nursing care. The course will helps students to develop an approach oriented to prevention, assessment and management of respiratory, urinary and intestinal function alteration and the multidimensional assessment of pain. During teaching, frontal teaching methods will be privileged associated with sessions of application of the contents treated in care situations (guided exercises, video projections, clinical case analysis, testimony readings will be used to analyze and reflect on the perceptions and needs of the patients and family members). GENERAL PATHOLOGY: The course develops the preparatory contents for understanding the basic mechanisms of diseases. The following contents will be covered: the general principles and disorders of homeodynamics of complex systems, the main pathogenic esogenous and endogenous factors, biological damage, responses to damage, with particular reference to inflammation, the processes of healing and chronicity, immunity , haemostasis and thrombosis, vascular pathology and notions of general oncology. The course aims to help the student to understand the essential links between clinical analysis and fundamental mechanisms, facilitating the reading of the conceptual basis of the disease.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No prerequisites are required

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Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The exam is divided into two blocks.
Students can decide to register for just one block (they can choose to take Block A or Block B first) or for the entire exam. The exam blocks will be scheduled at different times to ensure impartiality in the time available for those who choose to take the entire exam. A passing grade is valid for all five exam sessions and expires at the end of the academic year.
Refusal of a grade: To refuse a grade, students must email the course coordinator and the year director indicating their intention. The student will retake the block for which they refused the grade. A passing grade is valid for all five exam sessions and expires at the end of the academic year.
Block A (Semiotics and Pathophysiology and Clinical Nursing 2): The time available is 50 minutes total for the written exam. The mathematical average of the two modules will be published in thirtieths.
- Semiotics and Pathophysiology. The exam consists of 20 multiple-choice questions, each with only one correct answer.
- Clinical Nursing 2. The exam consists of two subsequent tests, one written and one oral, both mandatory:
1. WRITTEN EXAM. The written exam consists of 10 multiple-choice questions, each with only one correct answer. Score: 1 point for each correct answer. Maximum score: 10 points. Admission to the oral exam: Students must achieve at least 6/10 in the written exam. Students who do not achieve the minimum score are not admitted to the oral exam.
2. ORAL EXAM (Two students at a time are admitted to the written exam) The oral exam consists of 3 open-ended questions, designed to assess: understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms, clinical reasoning skills, application of knowledge to nursing practice, and use of appropriate scientific language. Score: Each question is worth up to 7 points. Maximum oral exam score: 21 points.
3. FINAL ASSESSMENT: For the final grade to be valid, the student must also achieve a passing grade in the oral exam, equal to at least 13/21. If the oral exam fails to achieve a passing grade, the written exam score will not be considered valid for the purposes of the final grade. The final grade is the sum of the written and oral exam scores (30/31).
Block B (General Pharmacology and General Pathology): The time available is 60 minutes in total. The mathematical mean of the two modules will be published in thirtieths.
- Pharmacology. The exam consists of 20 multiple-choice questions, each with only one correct answer.
- General Pathology. The exam consists of 20 multiple-choice questions, each with only one correct answer. Score: 1 point for each correct answer.
The exam is considered positive if the score is above 17/30 (10 correct answers out of 20), if the second module is equal to or higher than 18 (at least 12 correct answers out of 20).