PRINCIPLES OF NURSING CARE

Course Sheet

Course code:

IN11A3B

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in NURSING

Disciplinary Sector:

General, Clinical and Pediatric Nursing

Is part of:

PRINCIPLES OF NURSING CARE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DANIELE DANIELA

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Having attended the module for 70% of the face-to-face lessons

Objectives

At the end of the course the student must be able to:
understand the history and evolution of nursing and the health system
- the importance of acting in accordance with the conceptual models of reference
- understand professional autonomy in the care plan
Knowledge and understanding)
identify the main stages of the historical-evolutionary process of assistance and nursing care;
- analyze the concept of the nursing profession in light of regulatory and socio-cultural aspects;
- identify the main approaches to the concepts of the nursing discipline: person, health, environment and nursing care;
- identify the main theoretical developments of nursing science;
- define the nursing care process in terms of purpose, characteristics and structure;
- describe the phases of the nursing care process with particular reference to the data collection phase

bility to apply knowledge and understanding)
- Analyze the concept of care and nursing care
- Discuss the different phases of clinical nursing methodology

Autonomy of judgement
- Apply the professionalization process of the nurse in the clinical setting
- use theoretical role models within the care process, to facilitate growth, development and adaptation in the promotion, maintenance and recovery of the person's health

Contents

History of nursingHistory of nursing: from ancient civilizations to Christianity, Monasticism, the Renaissance era, the saintly nursing reformers, the Enlightenment

Birth of nursing and the professional corpus, Florence Nightingale and her contribution to the professionalization process, the concept of profession, the attributes that characterize a profession, the main phases of the development of nursing science and nursing education in Italy, associationism Italian nursing

Regulatory references of the nursing profession
The concepts of nursing discipline

The nursing metaparadigm: meaning and components
The concept of person: the recipient of healthcare care
Holism as a philosophical and scientific approach: generalities

The holistic person: definition, characteristics, variables of the person-system, homeodynamics
Historical notes on the evolution of the concept of health: from the biomedical model to the concept of well-being.
The concept of health: definitions and correlation with the other components of the metaparadigm
The concept of nursing care: definitions, nursing functions (prevention and health education, assistance, therapeutic education, management and organization, training and research)
Concept of need: definitions, classifications, the Hierarchy of needs according to A. Maslow

Extended Syllabus

The main theoretical developments of nursing

Virginia Henderson's theory (The 14 basic needs of V. Henderson, the "specific function of the nurse")
Sister Callista Roy's adaptation model
Madeleine Leininger's transcultural nursing
Dorothea Orem's theory of self-care
Hildegard Peplau's psychodynamic nursing
The Nursing Process
The method of the nursing discipline: definitions of the nursing process, characteristics, how it influences care, what personal and professional skills it allows to develop.
The phases of the process: description, sub-phases, circularity and concomitance. The data collection phase: definition, purpose, methods.
Nursing assessment according to the Gordon model.
The nursing diagnosis phase: diagnostic reasoning, importance of nursing diagnosis, human responses, diagnosis of the state of health, type of DI
.,the Collaborative Problem, The diagnostic language: classification systems (NANDA, NIC, NOC).
The planning phase of objectives and interventions.
The Nursing Assistance Plan (PAI).
The implementation phase of nursing actions.
The evaluation phase of care outcomes

Recommended Bibliography

Craven R.F., Hinrle C.J., “Fundamental principles of nursing”, Vol. 1 (Chapters 1, 2, 5, 15, 16, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milan, 2020
Wilkinson J.M., “Nursing process and critical thinking”, Ambrosiana publishing house, 2019
Manzoni E., Lusignani M. Mazzoleni B., “History and philosophy of nursing”, Ambrosiana publishing house, Milan, 2019.

Motta C.P., “Introduction to Nursing Sciences”, Carocci Faber, Rome, 2018.

Teaching Methods

The course will be carried out through interactive frontal lessons with the aid of iconographic material in Power Point files for a total of 2 credits equal to a total of 30 hours

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The exam consists of an oral test
The final grade is expressed in thirtieths, passing the exam requires a minimum grade of 18/30.
The student who responds fully to all the questions of all the modules of the course, demonstrating a coherent and cohesive argument and expressing himself in technical/scientific language, achieves the maximum score (grade: 30/30 cum laude).

Contacts/More Information

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Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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