The course provides the cognitive and methodological tools to deepen the nurse role in promoting health, maintaining health and preventing diseases by ensuring active involvement and support of individuals together with the healthcare professionals and the involved people. At the end of the lessons the student must be able to recognize the determinants of healt and implement strategies to promote healthy lifestyles.
Course Prerequisites
The knowledge required and recommended upon entry refers to the characterizing Nursing disciplines: General Nursing and Nursing Theories, Clinical Nursing I, Clinical Nursing II, Professional Organization.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons in co-presence with use of slides, films, video
Assessment Methods
Written, on all course topics, 30 closed multiple-choice questions with three choices with no penalty for missing or incorrect answers. Running time: 30 mins plus 15 mins for BES students.
Texts
Alberto Zucconi-Patty Howell - Promozione della Salute-ed. La Meridiana. Patrizia Lemma – Promuovere Salute nell’era della globalizzazione – ed. Unicopli. Relevant legislation
Contents
The health and its determinants. Regulatory bodies (Ottawa Card, Healt 21) and organizational ones (Health Promotion Bodies): the implication of nursing in promoting health and primary prevention. Epidemiology, primary health issues and scientific evidence in the field of health promotion. National and local monitoring programs and survey systems.Nurse role in promoting healthy lifestyles with particular reference to health determinants related to nutrition, physical activity, and the fight against smoking, referred to healthy, elderly and risky subjects, in the area of territorial intervention and hospital care. Methodological approach to health promotion. Prevention of infectious diseases, vaccinations. Understanding home care service units(C-Dom and UCP-Dom) and how theyoperate. The integration of telemedicine into the home care setting. Relevant legislation. The evolution of the home care nursing profession. Authorisation and accreditation in home care. Indicators and standards in home care. The organisational chart for home care. Role, function and job description in home care.Case management and local coordination. The role of the caregiver. Needs assessment in the home care setting. The social and healthcare dimensions. The various complexities of home care. Working alone as part of a team. Caring for carers. Analysis of a case report. The home care system. The digital model for the implementation of home care. Simulation of Individual Care Plans (ICPs). Designing a home care operations centre of the future.
