Module Details

Social and care needs in chronicity

MS2200

Course
Social and care needs in chronicity
Code
MS2200
Academic Year
2023/2024
Curriculum Year
2022/2023
Degree Programme
NURSING AND MIDWIFERY SCIENCES
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Credits
2
Lecture Hours
24
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MED/45 - General, Clinical and Pediatric Nursing
Course Type
Single-subject learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
2
Teaching period
Primo Semestre
Campus
NOVARA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
1.concepts of need, equity, inequality, health promotion, fragility and vulnerability, chronicity, deprivation.
2.Learn more about and learn about the health values ​​of the WHO, Ottawa Charter and Astana.
3.Models for local care (Chronic Care Model, Health Population Management, Self Management)
Reference Texts
European Commission (2019),ESI Funds for Health. Building knowledge & capacities. Final Conference – Report, Milieu Ltd Bruxelles, January.
Expert Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment (2017), Blocks. Tools and methodologies to assess
integrated care in Europe, Luxemburg, Publications Office of the European Union, March.
FCN, EuropeaN curriculum for fAmily aNd Community nurse.
FNOPI (2019), Il codice deontologico dell’Infermiere, Roma.
Ippoliti R., Allievi I., Falvigna G., Giuliano P., Montani F., Obbia P., Rizzi S., Moda G. (2018), The sustainability of a community nurses programme aimed at supporting active ageing in mountain areas, in International Journal of Health
Planning and Management, Jul 33(4), 1100-1111.
Maier C.B., Aiken L.H., Busse R., (2017), Nurses in advanced roles in primary care: Policy levers for implementation, OECD Health Working Papers, n. 98.
Marcadelli S., Obbia P., Prandi C., (2018), Assistenza domiciliare e cure primarie. Il nuovo orizzonte della professione infermieristica, Roma, Edizioni EDRA.
Marmot M., Allen J.J., (2014), Social determinants of Health Equity, in American in Journal of Public Health, Jul Vol. 104.
Martin P., Duffy T., Johnston B., Banks P., Harkess-Murphy E., Martin CR., (2013), Family Health Nursing: a response to the global Challenges, in Journal of Family Nursing, Feb 19(1), 99-118.
Learning Outcomes
1. Design and implement innovative models for the prevention and management of priority health problems inherent to the community, chronicity and family.
2. Analyze the evolution and changes of health services in order to prepare plans, programs and projects for the organization and development of the health system/health services for the dimensions of nursing and midwifery competence.
3. Design complex health and welfare interventions in areas of high epidemiological significance or of great impact on populations.
Prerequisites
Basic concepts of epidemiology and statistics
Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention
Foundations for research studies
Teaching Methods
1. Frontal lessons
2. Group work and exercises on prototypical cases
3. Videos
Assessment Methods
1.Test with single answer, true/false, multiple choice, completion, with identification of causal or temporal relationships, with interpretation of sources and documents of various kinds, data tables, graphs.
2. Oral test with presentation of situation/case
Detailed Syllabus
Health promotion: definitions and approaches.
The concept of need as a personal, social, health competence, need for nursing care.
Tools for assessing frailty.
Concept of inequality in the population, tools for defining interventions for reduction.
Care models for taking care of chronic patients: Chronic Care Model, Health Population Management, Self Management, Family Centered Care. Analysis of international and national models.
Continuity of care between different settings (transitional care), primary nursing and nursing care/case management).
Pathways, disease trajectories and the role of the nurse within PSDTA.
Exercise on situations/cases to define management interventions appropriate to the context and sustainable with respect to available resources
Expected Learning Outcomes
The LM student will be able to:
1. Define and be able to recognize the concepts of need, equity, inequality, health promotion, fragility and vulnerability, chronicity, deprivation.
2. Learn more about and know the salient values/contents on health issues of the WHO, Ottawa Charter and Astana.
3. Know the theoretical assumptions that underlie the care models for taking care of people in chronic conditions and know how to adapt them to different contexts.
4.Design interventions on target populations of elderly, chronic, frail, immigrants, children/adolescents.
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