- Docente: Sara Emiliani
- Credits: 2
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module students will know the epistemological aspects of the nursing discipline, the main models and theories of assistance, the methods and some disciplinary application tools. They know also the evolution of the professionalization process, the ethical, deontological and legislative aspects relevant to the professional practice.
Course contents
Elements of Philosophy of Nursing Sciences
The concepts of health, disease, normal, pathological.
Prevention, care and nursing care
The concept of person in the main ethical-conceptual systems
Process of professionalization in healthcare
Elements of the history of assistance
From spontaneous and charitable assistance to the profession
Profession and its concepts
Evolution of the professional italian nursing legislation
Elements of professional ethics and deontology
Nursing sciences: epistemological aspects
Science and its principles
Framing of Nursing Sciences
Paradigms and metaparadigms
Conceptual and syntactic structure
The scientific method in nursing
The theories of nursing
Proto-theories of assistance. Florence Nightingale and the birth of the profession
Modern structured theories: Orem, Peplau, Leininger
M. Gordon and L.J. Carpenito
Nature, structure and aims of nursing diagnosis
Italian Health Organizations and NHS
Notes on historical evolution
The "reform" from law 833 to today
The priority health problems
Readings/Bibliography
Motta, P.C. Introduzione alle Scienze Infermieristiche, Carrocci Faber, Roma 2008
George, J. B, Le teorie del Nursing: le basi per l'esercizio professionale, UTET, Torino 1995
OPI - Codice Deontologico dell'Infermiere, Roma 2019
Carpenito- Moyet, L.J. Diagnosi Infermieristiche. Applicazioni alla pratica clinica CEA, Milano, 2020
Teaching methods
Interactive lesson, discussion, group work
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Power point presentations, videos, iconographic resources
Office hours
See the website of Sara Emiliani
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.