Ateneo - UPO

Healthcare system organization and operation, healthcare profession organization today.
Role and function integration of healthcare professions, mainly regarding the nursing profession and professional educators.
Field of interest, method, nature and functions of nursing in healthcare.
The professionalization process of healthcare professions and historical evolution of assistance professions.
Responsibility, collaboration and reciprocity of roles regarding needs and results expected by patients. Outline of legislation and health documentation management.

- P.C. Motta “Introduzione alle scienze infermieristiche” Carocci Faber , 2002 (11^ ristampa nel 2011)
E. Manzoni, M. Lusignani, B. Mazzoleni, 2^ edizione, “Storia e filosofia dell’assistenza infermieristica” Masson-Elsevier, Milano, 2019
- M. Casati e Rita Maricchio “La documentazione infermieristica: riflessioni operative e giuridiche”, I Quaderni n. 24, Ipasvi, Febbraio 2009
- Dossier “Gli effetti della legge 24/2017 sulla responsabiltà professionale infermieristica” Quesiti clinico-assistenziali – anno 10, n. 7, giugno 2019, Zadig Editore.
- Teacher's handouts.

By the end of the course students can:
1 - describe the general organization of healthcare professions nowadays;
2 - recognize nursing responsibility and its complementarity with other professions, discuss principles of interprofessional collaboration;
3 - describe relationship between professionalization and scientific development of healthcare professions;
4 - describe the concept of need for nursing assistance;
5 - distinguish nursing role and skills from those of other health and/or social operators and/or professionals;
6 - consider the nursing profession history to understand the current profession;
7 - understand the main interprofessional regulations regarding liability.

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Participated frontal lesson. Discussion about the main subjects through debates between teachers and students. Presentation of summary and explanatory cards about the educational subjects and the lesson contents in PowerPoint format.

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The exam consists of a quiz test (10 multiple choice questions, with only one correct answer) and an oral test. To be admitted to the oral exam, the quiz test pass is required (60% of correct answers). The written test lasts 10 minutes. To pass the oral exam, students must demonstrate sufficient knowledge and competence of all topics and the mark is reported in thirtieths. To achieve 30/30 cum laude, students must demonstrate excellent knowledge of all course topics. The oral exam mark determines the mark of the integrated course.

1 - The healthcare system, outline of its organisation, management of public health resources and networks. The evolution of the health concept. The role of healthcare and medical professions and the role of healthcare recipients, families and community: the concept of participation. The nursing healthcare organization today.
2 - The professional profile of healthcare professions. Meaning in regulatory context: practice e training of healthcare professionals. The professional profile of nurses (DM 739/94). The points in common with the professional profile of professional educators (DM 520/98). The concept of professional identity, collaboration, shared responsibility.
3 - Participation in the overall health need definition and integrated role of healthcare and social professions. Outline of development phases of Meleis's professional disciplinary nursing mindset. Professionalization process of healthcare professions. Outline of the nursing care history and of the rehabilitation and educational profession development. The three schools of thought of nursing care theories.
4 - The nursing profession method: the nursing care process. The concept of need for nursing care. The technical, relational and educational nature of preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative nursing care. Preventive, assistance and educational functions of nursing. Taking care of people and families. The caregivers.
5 - The results of professional practice and its operational and ethical consequences: the concept of result measurement. Professional responsibility: outline of the Gelli-Bianco law. Delegation and attribution.
6 - Healthcare documentation. The integrated medical record.
7- Management of professional role reciprocity within the healthcare team. Relationship management with patients, with the team and management of conflict and stress.
8 - Outline of family and community nursing and of possible collaborative developments.

*Knowledge and understanding
By the end of the integrated course students can:
- discuss healthcare professions-specific principles and logic in compliance with their profile and regulatory constraints;
- describe the professionalization process of healthcare professions;
- distinguish nursing role and skills from those of other healthcare operators and/or professionals;
- understand and discuss the concept of need and the nursing assistance need;
- understand the fields of intervention of nurses, independently and in collaboration with other professionals.
*Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension
By the end of the integrated course students can:
- take their own responsibility according to the role identity and in compliance with the normative principles of professional practice and training;
- take decisions through a professional approach aimed at resolving patients' problems;
- choose scope, limits, method and tools of professional action in relation with other professions.
*Communication skills
By the end of the integrated course students can:
- use appropriate terminology for discussing professional- and professional identity-related issues.
*Learning ability
By the end of the integrated course students can:
- develop independent study skills of historical and narrative texts;
- define and describe regulation synopsis;
- discuss on topics of historical and regulatory interest.