Course Details

Nursing in Emergency and Urgency

MS0375

Course
Nursing in Emergency and Urgency
Code
MS0375
Academic Year
2025/2026
Curriculum Year
2023/2024
Degree Programme
NURSING
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Credits
8
Lecture Hours
100
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MED/33 - Locomotory Diseases, MED/41 - Anaesthesiology, MED/45 - General, Clinical and Pediatric Nursing, MED/09 - Internal Medicine
Course Type
Integrated learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
3
Teaching period
Primo Semestre
Campus
VERCELLI, ALESSANDRIA, BIELLA, VERBANIA, ALBA, NOVARA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
- critical area
- critical patient
- emergency system legislation
- knowledge about organisation: emergency medical team, emergency department, intensive care unit
- rescue chain out of hospital/ inhospital
- advance trauma life support
- basic life support and defibrillation
- advance life support
- nursing care
- nursing care: critical patient, icu patient
- respiratory monitoring, circulation monitoring, neurological monitoring.
- communicate in critical situations
- nursing care: patient in artificial ventilation
Reference Texts
quarta edizione- Piccin
TESTO CONSIGLIATO
Pierluigi Badon, Gian Domenico Giusti "ASSISTENZA INFERMIERISTICA IN AREA CRITICA E IN EMERGENZA" CEA, 2022
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the student must be able to:
- Describe the concepts of critical area, organizational aspect.
- Describe the fundamental elements on the legislation in force in Italy, relating to the Health Emergency System
- Describe the organization of the 118 system, the emergency department and Intensive Care
- Describe the concepts and stages of the rescue chain
- Describe the application of the ABCDE method in the approach to the critical person
Describe the care priorities of the person in critical condition
- Describe the main vital function monitoring systems
- Plan critical patient care
- Describe the characteristics of communication/relationship in emergency conditions with the patient, relatives and the team
- Describe the nursing implications related to organ and tissue harvesting and transplantation
Prerequisites
knowledge of anatomy, physiology and general pathology.
Knowledge of nursing care planning
Teaching Methods
lesson with the support of presentations in MS-Power Point format and reference to scientific dissemination websites.
Laboratory activities in groups with simulators, carried out within the teaching complementary teaching
Additional Information
To support teaching, supplementary teaching activities are planned aimed at acquiring technical-gestural skills.
Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special Education Needs can request
specific services and tools via the Staff Sviluppo e Coordinamento Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse
e agli Studenti, consulting the University webpage: https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/services students-physical-or-learning-disabilities
Students with disabilities, learning disabilities or special education needs, once they have contacted
the University Staff, can refer to the tutor in charge of the course to define the examination
modalities, concerning academic aspects.
Assessment Methods
The verification of learning will take place with a written and an oral test.
Multiple choice written exam consisting of 64 questions (passed with 38 correct answers equivalent to 60%) as follows:
- Emergency Medicine 24 questions,
- Anesthesiology- Resuscitation 24 questions,
- Orthopedics-Traumatology 16 questions,
Only by passing the written exam is accessed.
Oral exam discussion of 1 clinical / assistance case of Nursing in emergency / urgency and intensive care.
Maximum time: 15 minutes

The final grade: the expression of an overall judgment of the integrated course
Detailed Syllabus
Lessons are scheduled at 2 or 4 hours and published on upoplanner.
- Definition of critical area, critical patient, nurse in the organization of the area.
- Regulations relating to the Health Emergency System.
- Organization of 118 systems, emergency departments and intensive care.
- General principles of the rescue chain, territorial and hospital phase.

- ATLS: atraumatic immobilization/transport systems, devices and techniques.

- BLSD: exercise with semi-automatic device. PBLS: theoretical

- ALS: endotracheal intubation, tracheotomy/tracheotomy, bronchoaspiration.
- Care priorities for users in adverse clinical conditions such as coma, burns, multiple traumas, intoxications, acute respiratory failure, cardio-circulatory arrest and arrhythmias.

- Shock, pulmonary embolism, acute pulmonary edema in patients in intensive care or intensive care units.
- General concepts of respiratory, circulatory, neurological, renal and body temperature monitoring.
- The need to communicate in critical situations.
- Brain death, management, education and assistance to potential donors.
- Clinical-care planning of the user in invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, polytrauma, acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism in a patient in intensive care or intensive care unit.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding of the territorial and intra-hospital health emergency system.
Ability to apply the acquired knowledge in the territorial and hospital management of a critical patient.
Demonstrate communication skills in emergency/urgency situations

Moduli

Course year 3
Code MC056
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SSD MED/33
Campus VERCELLI, ALESSANDRIA, BIELLA, VERBANIA, ALBA, NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 1
Course year 3
Code MS0355
Course Critical Care
Lecturers Rosanna VASCHETTO
SSD MED/41
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 2
Course year 3
Code MS0330
Course Emergency and Critical Care Nursing
SSD MED/45
Campus ALBA, BIELLA, ALESSANDRIA, VERBANIA, NOVARA, VERCELLI
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 3
Course year 3
Code MS0337
Course Emergency Medicine
Lecturers Francesco GAVELLI
SSD MED/09
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 2
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