Course program
Teaching: Basics of nursing care
The course is divided into the following modules:
1 History and theory of nursing - Teacher: Maria Rosaria D'Emlio
2 Principles of nursing care - Teacher: Annarita Crescenzi
3 General and clinical nursing - Teacher: Sabrina Pietrobono
First Module: History and Theory of Nursing - Teacher Maria Rosaria D'Emilio
PART I
1. Historical-legislative excursus of the nursing profession.
1.1 Nurse and Nursing
1.2 Assistance in primitive peoples
1.3 Assistance in ancient civilizations up to the Middle Ages
1.4 Assistance towards new frontiers: the Renaissance
1.5 Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Enlightenment.
1.6 Assistance in the twentieth century
PART II
2 The evolution of nursing education.
2.1 University training
3 The Institutions. International Council of Nurses (I.C.N.)
3.1 The IP.AS.VI.
3.2 FNOPI / OPI what changes
3.3 The Red Cross
PART III
4. Theory and models. The theorists of nursing.
4.1 Model and theory. The characteristics of a profession.
4.2 The scale of needs.
4.3 Florence Nightingale and English nursing
4.4 "Nursing Science" is born in the USA
4.5 Hildegard Peplau
4.6 Ida Jean Orlando
4.7 Virginia Henderson
4.8 Faye Glenn Abdellah
4.9 Martha Rogers
4.10 Dorothea Orem
4.11 Sister Callista Roy
4.12 Marjory Gordon's Functional Models of Health
4.13 J. Carpenito bifocal model
4.14 Transcultural nursing. Madeleine Leininger
4.15 Renzo Zanotti and the concept of harmony-health *
4.16 Lidya Hall. Model of relationship, assistance and care *
PART IV
6 Role of doctors and nurses
7 Heal and take care
8 Nursing care. Slow cure and rapid cure
Second module: Principles of nursing care - Teacher Anna Rita Crescenzi
PART I
The mutual system
Health reforms, the National Health Service, the corporatization process
The founding articles of the constitution
PART II
Prevention
Health policies
The training cornerstones that qualify the profession
PART III
Critical thinking
Clinical thinking
Definition of competence
Nursing skills
PART IV
The nursing process
The nursing assessment
Nursing diagnosis
The classification of diagnoses according to the NANDA taxonomy
Third module: General and clinical nursing - Sabrina Pietrobono
Plan
Hierarchies of human needs according to A. Maslow
• Hospitality
• The unity of the patient
• Health assessment: objective examination of the integumentary system, head, neck, chest, etc.
• Outline of basic care techniques and hygiene promotion principles: correct patient care and hygiene, bed making, hand washing (social, antiseptic and surgical), pre-operative and/or pre-procedural hygiene, healthcare management for adults with self-care deficits, assistance in urinary and faecal elimination;
• Assignment and supervision of care activities to support staff: knowing how to distinguish care needs from nursing care needs, differentiating the contribution of support workers from that of nurses
• Description and detection of vital parameters: body temperature, pulse, blood pressure, heart rate, breathing and pain
• Main alterations of breathing and oxygenation (hypoxia and cyanosis, dyspnoea, cough, haemoptysis, bronchial obstruction and sputum, pathological breathing): management of the main alterations of breathing
• Main alterations in body temperature (fever, hyperthermia, hypothermia), correct registration and care management of the person with alteration in body temperature.
• Pain detection in adults: main assessment scales
• Description and detection of saturation, diuresis, hydroelectrolyte balance and its alterations (dehydration, hypovolemia, hydroelectrolyte imbalance, excess volume of fluids, maldistribution of fluids): healthcare management
Main sleep disorders (insomnia, circadian rhythm sleep disorders, restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea, other sleep disorders): healthcare management of the main sleep disorders
• Principles for healthy eating: basic assistance during feeding, alterations in nutritional status (obesity, malnutrition, anorexia, cachexia, dysphagia); healthcare management of the main problems of nutritional status
• Principles for healthy mobility and physical activity: definition of tolerance; definition of the concepts of physical activity, exercise and functional status; main alterations of mobility (intolerance to physical activity, hypokinetic syndrome); mobilization and transfer of the patient bed-stretcher, bed-wheelchair; care management for adults with mobility impairments
• Principles of skin integrity, wound healing, prevention and management of pressure ulcers: risk assessment and care management of the risk of pressure ulcers and care management of the person with pressure ulcer
• Principles of asepsis, disinfection, sterilization, no touch technique and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAI)
• Loss, grief and the dying process
N.B. FOR EACH TOPIC THE FOLLOWING ASSESSMENT SCALES, THE RELATED CARE PLANNING WITH NANDA TAXONOMY AND THE RELATED NURSING DIAGNOSIS WILL BE ILLUSTRATED
Prerequisites
-History and theory of nursing
Notions of general culture useful for framing Italian and international historical periods
-Principles of general and clinical nursing and nursing care
Predisposition for reasoning and critical thinking and logical thinking
Books
Text adopted for all three teaching modules:
1-Fundamentals of nursing care, theory, concepts and applications – Judith M., Wilkinson et al-Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
Recommended text for the general and clinical nursing module:
2-Manual of nursing techniques and procedures -Taylor Piccin
Recommended texts, to complement the first, for the history and theory of nursing module:
3 - Nursing theorists and their theories – Ann Marriner – Ambrosiana publishing house
4 - History and philosophy of nursing - Edoardo Manzoni - Maura Lusignani - Beatrice Mazzoleni -
Ambrosiana Publishing House - Rozzano (MI)
Frequency
In order to be able to take the exam related to the specific integrated course it is necessary to have documented the presence in the classroom of at least 66% of the hours corresponding to the credits assigned to the integrated course.
Exam mode
To pass the exam it is necessary to achieve a grade of not less than 18/30 in each module. The student must demonstrate that they have acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics covered during the course. To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude, the student must instead demonstrate that they have acquired excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, arguing a linear reasoning with the use of technical terms and making use of correct linguistic expressions.
The exam is carried out in a coordinated manner by the teachers of the integrated course
Lesson mode
All three teaching modules include:
frontal lessons through the projection of slides and videos
practical demonstrations
production of group work