INFERMIERISTICA CLINICA APPLICATA 3

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Nursing
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2020/2021
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2022/2023
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Seat of the course: 
Como - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Credits: 
2
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
30
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (30 hours)
Requirements: 

There are no prerequisites to be admitted to the exam except compulsory attendance.

Oral examination

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Nursing and management and planning about the problems of elderly and frailty.
Nursing and management and planning about adults with neurological and nephrological diseases.
Instruments and scales to measure needs and outcomes elder age-linked.

Geriatric nursing

1. The social-cultural and physiological dimension of aging
2. Frail elderly
3. Health services in frailty
4. The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and its tools
5. Identification of more common nursing care needs (BAI) in elderly
6. Delirium in elderly
7. Nursing in dementia and Alzheimer disease
8. Parkinson’s disease and nursing care
9. Multiple Sclerosis (SM) and nursing care
10. Acute and Chronic kidney disease: assessment and nursing
11. Dialysis: outcomes, treatments and nursing
12. Diet and hydration in kidney disease
13. Kidney transplant

Classroom lessons

Reccomended reading:
Mongardi M (2011) L’assistenza all’anziano. Ospedale, territorio domicilio, Milano, Mc Graw Hill
Federico A., Angelini C., Franza P. (2015) Neurologia e assistenza infermieristica. Manuale per le professioni sanitarie, Napoli: EDISES
Vittoria A., Brardi S. (2011) L'essenziale in Nefrologia. Compendio ad uso degli studenti dei corsi di Laurea in (...) Infermieristica Roma: Aracne Editrice 11
Smeltzer S.C., Bare B.G., Hinkle J.L., Cheever K.H. (2010) Brunner Suddarth Infermieristica medico-chirurgica. 2° volume Milano: Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.

Professors

CAVADINI GIOVANNI