OVERVIEW

The Geriatric Nursing Course will provide the attendants with the geriatric fundamentals for integrated and global health care for the elderly patient, including preventive medicine, health promotion, family and caregiver education, nursing of the main diseases of the olds and end of life care.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The attendants the course will acquire: the ability to address the problems of the geriatric patient through general prevalence of elderly, the demographic changes, the knowledge of the main diseases in the olds, their prevention and prognosis, promotion of family health and education, comprehensice geriatric assessment, the Geriatric Evaluation Unit and the teamwork, the communication and relationship with the old patient and his family, the placement in the community and hospital network services for old care, the evidence-based nursing, the disability assistance and end-of-life care life.

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The participants of the course will have to learn: the Italian and regional epidemiology of the aging population and hence the related health needs; The generality of the aging process; The theoretical-practical significance of fragility, its causes, and its clinical consequences; The characteristics of major geriatric syndromes; The promotion of health and the preventive medicine of the most frequent illnesses in the elderly; Drugs management and pain therapy, the nutrition issue and the sarcopenia; The problems of the old on the community and in the hospital wards, including problems related to the hospitalization. The acquisition of good relationship and communication with the elderly patient and his family; The knowledge of the health services network, its best use to properly locate and assist the elderly, the old people disabled, patients with dementia and at the end of their life; Personalized planning of care developed on the basis of comprehensice geriatric assessment and the identification of realistic and achievable goals; The role of the Geriatric Evaluation Unit; The nursing approach to depression, suicide, violence suffered by the patient or by the nurse.

TEACHING METHODS

Standard lessons, professional training and informatic data

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Demography of aging; Aging of organs and systems, consequences on clinical pattern and assistance; The concept of fragility, its causes and the resulting outcomes; The principal geriatric syndromes, the frequent clinical diseases in the hospital and the possible adverse events of hospital stay; The problems of relationship and communication with the old patient; Medication management with polypharmacotherapy, compliance to prescriptions and drug adverse events; Nutritional issue; The appropriate usa of restraints; The approach to the patient with dementia, with delirium, the patient with depression; The promotion of health, the prevention medicine and the network of health services; The disability of the oldest; The utility of geriatric rehabilitation; The comprehensive geriatric assessment, the Geriatric Evaluation Unit and evaluation tools and scales; The Evidence-Based Nursing; Suicide risk and the perpetrated or suffered violence; End-of-life care.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Basic Geriatric Nursing, 6th Edition
Williams PA - Elsevier Ed. 2016

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

TIZIANA LEALE (President)

SIMONETTA AMADI

MARIO AMORE

MAURIZIO BARBERO

GABRIELLA BIFFA

MARIA ANTONIETTA BOETTI

PIERO CAI

PAOLO CAVAGNARO

ANTONELLO COLAMEO

ANGELA CORBELLA

GIOVANNI DEL PUENTE

AGOSTINO D'IMPORZANO

MARCO GHIOZZI

VITTORIO GUGLIELMO GROSSO

GIORGIO GUGOLE

EMANUELA LANDINI

MARCELLA MACCAGNO

MAURIZIO MARCENARO

SILVANA MAZZARO

DANIELE MORETTI

PAOLA MOSSA

GIULIA MUSMECI

ARMANDO NAPOLITANO

PATRIZIA PAVACCI

SILVIA ROSA POBLETE CABALLERO

CAMILLA PRETE

EMILIANA RATTO

ROBERTO RAVERA

GIOVANNA RIZZO

ALESSANDRO ROBUTTI

LORENZO SAMPIETRO

MARINELLA SANTACROCE

ROBERTO SERGI

ELISA SIMONINI

PIERO STETTINI

GIOVANNI TRIA

CARLO VALENTI

FRANCESCO VALLONE

MARIA VALSECCHI

PATRIZIO ODETTI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

clinical case and multiple choice questionnaire

ASSESSMENT METHODS

certificate of attendance and tutorial evaluation

Exam schedule