Ateneo - UPO

Regulatory legislation and organizational and assistance models of the nursing profession

Bibliografia obbligatoria:
A. Santullo “L’infermiere e le innovazioni in sanità”. McGraw - Hill 2004
L.Benci “Aspetti giuridici della professione infermieristica”. McGraw - Hill 8°edizione.
Fotocopie della normativa esaminata in aula
Bibliografia di approfondimento:
G.Pontello “Il management infermieristico” Ed Masson

To make students acquire the essential knowledge regarding the specific legislation for the nursing profession, related to aspects of planning, organization and management of material and human resources in the public and private socio-health context.

Presentations in MS-Power Point format and websites

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The learning test will be conducted in an integrated manner with the other disciplines pertaining to the integrated course of "Organization and Management of Care Processes." The test consists of 64 closed multiple-choice questions of which only one is correct and 2 open-ended questions
The Ethics and Bioethics part includes 12 closed questions in which knowledge will be assessed and 2 open questions in the form of a case, in which students will have to identify The ethically questionable behaviors enacted and apply The contents of the Code of Ethics.
The exam is considered passed if students correctly answers at least 60% of the closed questions for each discipline and expresses The required contents in the open questions. In this regard, the docents have formulated a specific correction grid.
If students achieves a total of 95% correct answers, thay will be graded with 30/30, keeping the minimum threshold of 60% unchanged. If students does not exceed this threshold they repeat the exam in its entirety, taking the test again including questions from all disciplines. Students have 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the test.

- The legislation on professional practice:
1. Ministerial Decree 14 September 1994, n. 739
2. Law 26 February 1999, n. 42
3. law 10 August 2000, n. 251
4. Law 1/2002 conversion into law, with amendments, of the D.L. 402 of 12/11/2001
5. Law n.43 of 1 February 2006
6. Law no.24 of 1 April 2017 (Gelli Law)
7. Law 15 February 2018, n. 3 (Lorenzin Law)
6. Professional practice and contractual forms
8. Clinical governance and process management tools (eg guidelines, paths, audits, risk management).
9. The Nursing Service and the role of the Health Professions Manager in the health organization.
10. Outline of roles, functions, profiles (competence profiles, inf. Consultancy).
11. The evolution of the assistance organization: from the organization by tasks (technical model) to the I and II generation professional organization
12. Nurse support figures and their evolution
13. Continuing Medical Education (ECM).

Students will be able to:
- describe the specific regulatory aspects of the nursing profession;
- describe the principles of organization of services;
- describe the role and functions of the nurse in the territorial and hospital organization of the NHS;
- manage the attribution of activities to social health workers.
- describe the ECM as a tool for improving the profession.