GENERAL NURSING 1
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
- Contents
- Bibliography
- Teaching methods
- Contacts/Info
There are no prerequisites.
Oral examination with the goal to verify the level of achievement of the previously stated learning objectives. More precisely:
level of knowledge of the topics dealt in lectures;
deep understanding through the ability to provide examples of the concepts presented;
skills to link the contents presented;
ability to use the suggested sources;
class activities participation;
usage of teacher’s distance education platform.
Three questions will be posed: a general one to evaluate topic mastery, as well as the ability to organize a discourse; a more specific question; a third in order to confirm the evaluation result.
The evaluation is expressed with an assessment of suitability. This evaluation is preparatory to the nursing methodology course 1 of the 2nd semester.
1. To start gaining knowledge, skills and competences for long life self-learning.
2. To identify and to know some of nursing science’s relevant concepts.
3. To describe some crucial steps of Italian nurses professionalization process.
4. To acknowledge the need for confronting existential and ethical problems in nursing practice.
5. To critically appraise the philosophical approach inspiring health professionals and nursing theories, starting to know Watson’s Human Caring philosophy and Science.
6. To know and start using the nursing method and instruments.
7. To work in a safe way for themselves and for others.
1. How to learn for the nursing profession.
1.1 The research process in nursing and the literature review.
2. Notes on nursing sciences’ development.
2.1 Nursing theories in Italy and abroad.
2.2 Scientific language and Nursing Standardised Terminologies.
2.3 Some of the fundamental concepts for nursing science: Man-Person, Health and Wellness, Environment and safety, Caring and Nursing.
3. Italian nurses professionalization process: some insights and key points from history to understand it.
4. Ethics in nursing practice.
4.1 Moral developmental stages of a person, a health professional, and the concept of responsibility.
4.2 Values and nursing.
4.3 Codes of ethics.
5. Analytic, sistemic, holistic and complexity aproaches in nursing: “state of the art” in Italy and abroad.
6. Nursing methodology and nursing instruments.
6.1 Nursing Problem Solving: the nursing process.
6.2 Nursing process oriented by some conceptual elements of nursing sciences and using ICNP®.
6.3 Relationships and nursing practice.
6.3.1 Transpersonal relationship in nursing (Human Caring, J. Watson).
6.4 Observation in nursing.
6.5 Interviewing the patient.
6.6 Nursing documentation.
7. Nurses’ world: main working areas of nurses.
*Ausili D, Baccin G., Bezze S., Di Mauro S., Sironi C. (2015) L’impiego dell’ICNP con il Modello assistenziale dei processi umani: un quadro teorico per l’assistenza infermieristica di fronte alla sfida della complessità. Pubblicazione di CNAI (www.cnai.info; ISBN 978-88-940757-0-0) stampata con Lulu (www.lulu.com).
Ausili D., Sironi C. (2013) Una lettura dell’evoluzione delle conoscenze in Italia. In V. Costanzo, A. Reginelli, A. Ajdini (a cura di) Le scienze infermieristiche in Italia: riflessioni e linee di indirizzo. Atti del Convegno nazionale CNAI, Milano, 24 e 25 ottobre 2013. Reperibile in: http://www.cnai.info/index.php/pubblicazioni-gratuite (previa registrazione al sito).
Filippini A., Baccin G. (2014) L’etica e la deontologia. In C. Deiana, G. Rocco, A. Silvestro (a cura di) Guida all’esercizio della professione di infermiere. Torino: Edizioni medico scientifiche, pp. 191-205.
* Fry S.T., Johnston M-J (2004) Etica per la pratica infermieristica. Una guida per prendere decisioni etiche. Rozzano: Casa editrice ambrosiana (per quest’anno pp. 4-38).
Henderson V. (2003) I principi fondamentali dell’assistenza infermieristica promossi dal Consiglio internazionale delle infermiere. Edizione italiana a cura della Consociazione nazionale delle associazioni infermiere/i (CNAI), Milano, via Russo 8.
Nightingale F. (2000) Cenni sull’assistenza ai malati. Quello che è assistenza e quello che non è. Nizza: Società tipografica. Ristampa della prima edizione italiana del 1860, Milano: Associazione regionale Lombardia infermiere/i e altri operatori sanitario-sociali (ARLI), Milano, via Russo 8.
Sironi C. (1995) Un approccio storico evolutivo alla professione. Sanare Infirmos, 12(20): 17-21.
* Watson J. (2013) Assistenza infermieristica: filosofia e scienza del Caring. Rozzano: Casa editrice ambrosiana.
*Texts used for multiple courses or more years
Participative Lectures and links with other scientific-disciplinary activities of MED/45 (professionalizing educational activities, laboratories, clinical placements, group works).
The teacher will receive students upon appointment via e-mail.