CODE 68036 ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 CREDITS 1 cfu anno 3 INFERMIERISTICA (L/SNT1) - SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/09 TEACHING LOCATION SEMESTER 1° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: CLINICAL NURSING IN CHRONIC PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS 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 ROBERTO ANSELMO ROBERTO SERGI PAOLO CAVAGNARO MAURIZIO BARBERO PATRIZIO ODETTI Ricevimento: The student reception is booked by mail (Professors address at UNIGE website): the answer is usually within 48 hours. ANTONELLO COLAMEO CAMILLA PRETE LORENZO SAMPIETRO 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 Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 29/03/2017 09:00 GENOVA Esame Online 21/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Esame Online 18/07/2017 09:00 GENOVA Esame Online 20/09/2017 09:00 GENOVA Esame Online 18/10/2017 09:00 GENOVA Test al computer