Module Details

Social and care needs in chronicity

MS2200

Course
Social and care needs in chronicity
Code
MS2200
Academic Year
2026/2027
Curriculum Year
2025/2026
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
OPZ - Opzionale
Year
2
Teaching period
Primo Semestre
Campus
NOVARA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
1. Concepts of need, equity, inequality, health promotion, frailty and vulnerability, chronicity, deprivation.
2. The right to health and care: Legislative developments in Italy
3. Health in WHO programs
4. Community care models (Chronic Care Model, Health Population Management, Self-Management)
5. Participation of the Third Sector in healthcare decision-making processes
6. PROm and PREm as an expression of the patient and caregiver perspective
Reference Texts
FNOPI (2019-2025), Il codice deontologico dell’Infermiere, Roma.
Prandi C., Badon P., (2025) Assistenza infermieristica di famiglia e di comunità Pianificazione dell'assistenza con NANDA-I, NOC e NIC, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.
Agenas, (2023) Linee di indirizzo per IFoC,
FNOPI, (2020) POSITION STATEMENT L’INFERMIERE DI FAMIGLIA E DI COMUNITÀ
ENhANCE Project: EuropeaN curriculum for fAmily aNd Community nursE, 591946-EPP-1-2017-1-IT-EPPKA2-SSA
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
Additional Information
No information.
Assessment Methods
Multiple-choice questionnaires, based on scenario analysis or activity science reports. Approximately, there are 8 questions for each credit, which may however vary with the variation of their complexity. The exam will be online using the platform DIR-EXAM
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.
Third Sector Participation in
Healthcare Decision-Making Processes.
PROm and PREm as Tools for
Assessing Patient and Caregiver Perspectives

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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