Unit CLINICAL NURSING IN THE CHRONICITY AND DISABILITY

NURSING END OF LIFE CARE

Code	50146701
Location	FOLIGNO
CFU	1
Teacher	Marta Cascioli
Teachers	Marta Cascioli
Hours	15 ore - Marta Cascioli
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Scienze infermieristiche
Academic discipline	MED/45
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)

GERIATRICS

Code	50014001
Location	FOLIGNO
CFU	1
Teacher	Anna Laura Spinelli
Teachers	Anna Laura Spinelli
Hours	15 ore - Anna Laura Spinelli
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Interdisciplinari e cliniche
Academic discipline	MED/09
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian
Contents	Basic geriatrics/gerontological concepts. Physiopathological basis of major disorders of the elderly.
Reference texts	Senin U, Cherubini A, Mecocci P. Paziente anziano, paziente geriatrico e medicina della complessità. Fondamenti di gerontologia e geriatria. Ed. EDISES
Educational objectives	The student must acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge of the basic elements of geriatric assessment, diseases and disorders that are more common to or that have particular features in older people, and geriatric rehabilitation.
Prerequisites	In order to be able to understand the topics matter of the module, students must have the basic notions of anatomy and physiology of nervous and motor systems.
Teaching methods	Face-to-face lectures.
Learning verification modality	The assessment is done through an oral examination, lasting about 30 minutes, during which knowledge and skills acquired about each module of the course are evaluated. The student will also demonstrated effective use of appropriate technical terminology.
Extended program	Principles of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Demography of Aging and Epidemiology of aging-related diseases. Clinical and health care implications of an Aging Population Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA). Frail elderly. Definition and goals of CGA Geriatric Syndromes: - Multiple chronic diseases and iatrogenesis; - Decubitus lesions: definition, prevention and treatment; - Nutrition, malnutrition and dysphagia; - Incontinence; - Mobility and falls; - Osteoporosis and fractures; - Delirium, depression and dementia.

CLINICAL AND REHABILITATIVE NURSING IN THE CHRONICITY AND DISABILITY

Code	50363402
Location	FOLIGNO
CFU	2
Teacher	Anna Brandi
Teachers	Anna Brandi
Hours	30 ore - Anna Brandi
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Scienze infermieristiche
Academic discipline	MED/45
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian
Contents	Role of the nurse in the specific educational, training, help and technical function. • The network of rehabilitation services. • Rehabilitation approach of the main neurological diseases • Rehabilitative approach of the main diseases of the locomotor system: • Rehabilitation assistance and prosthesis of the lower limb amputee. • Post mastectomy rehabilitation.
Reference texts	The rehabilitation nurse - AA. N. Basaglia –L.Gamberoni - Edi-Ermes - Fundamentals of Nursing - AA. P.A.Porter - A.G. Perry - Ed. ELSEVIER
Educational objectives	Describe the specific rehabilitation nursing interventions for the disabilities treated in the course, with particular regard to the mobilization and positioning of the person with impairment, communication and nutrition skills, the application of bladder and intestinal re-education programs and the reintegration of the new image body (assessment, prosthetics, relationship) Describe the meaning and evolution of the concept of rehabilitation by referring to the definitions of disability, impairment and participation and contextualizing it in the context of the health problems of the neurological and geriatric patient
Prerequisites	The student must have the knowledge of: Physiological anatomical bases of the human body and Pathophysiological bases of diseases
Teaching methods	Frontal lessons - Work in small groups
Other information	No information
Learning verification modality	Written test
Extended program	The terms of the rehabilitation point of view: identification of the object of treatment, role of the nurse in the specific educational, training, help and technical function. • The rehabilitation project as a training process. • Nurse / patient communication: the art of helping. • The network of rehabilitation services. • The levels of assistance in rehabilitation. • The quantification of the rehabilitation need: the nursing interest rating scales used in rehabilitation. • The processes of adaptation of the person with respect to situations of high emotional criticality. • Nursing in situations with the highest rehabilitation significance: second and third level rehabilitation services, intensive rehabilitation, rehabilitation of autonomous functions. • Nursing theories used in the rehabilitation sector: Henderson, Orem, Peplau. • Neuropsychology and rehabilitation • Communication disorders (aphasias) and swallowing (dysphagia) • Rehabilitation, autonomy and functional recovery. • Rehabilitation methodology: analysis of signs and vicariating movements. • Impairment, disability, handicap. • Rehabilitation approach of the main neurological diseases • Rehabilitation approach of the main diseases of the musculoskeletal system: fractures of the femur, THA, low back pain. • Rehabilitation assistance and prosthesis of the lower limb amputee. • Post mastectomy rehabilitation. · The elements of physical and psychological frailty in the elderly person Brain aging · The polypathological state and the polypharmacological treatments in the elderly The problems of taking drugs in old age (tolerability, adherence to the therapeutic plan) Arthrosic and osteoporotic pathology, bone dysmetabolic processes · Safeguarding self-sufficiency, strengthening residual capacities and preventing disability.

NEUROLOGY

Code	50099301
Location	FOLIGNO
CFU	1
Teacher	Marzia Carlini
Teachers	Marzia Carlini
Hours	15 ore - Marzia Carlini
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Interdisciplinari e cliniche
Academic discipline	MED/26
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
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