- Docente: Claudia Magli
- Credits: 2
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 6063)
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from Oct 30, 2025 to Dec 04, 2025
Learning outcomes
Students will learn the techniques for recording vital signs, blood pressure and pulse oximetry, ABCs, GAS, IV drip preparation, and intramuscular, subdermal, and IV techniques. Venipuncture procedures for contrast medium administration in CT and MRI scans are also covered.
Course contents
General theoretical concepts
The nursing profession
EBP and safety of care
Vital signs
Assessing vital signs: locations and procedures for recording
Reference values and recognition of major abnormalities
Main emergency care procedures
Outline of the Emergency and Urgent Care system
Chain of survival
Patient assessment according to the ABCDE scheme
Theoretical and practical knowledge of BLS-D
Airway management devices
Emergency cart
The polytrauma patient
Nursing care needs
The concept of need in nursing
Patient identification
Main nursing care needs
Notes on some devices: nasogastric tube, bladder catheters, stomas, pressure ulcers
Patient mobilization
Infection prevention
Nursing techniques and procedures
General principles of medication administration and routes of administration
Notes on Intramuscular, intradermal, and intravenous injection
Venipuncture and IV preparation
MDC: Characteristics and adverse reactions
Pediatric patients
Care for newborns and children in different age groups
Characteristics and differences from adult patients
Readings/Bibliography
Olasveengen, T. M., Semeraro, F., Ristagno, G., Castren, M., Handley, A., Kuzovlev, A., Monsieurs, K. G., Raffay, V., Smyth, M., Soar, J., Svavarsdottir, H., & Perkins, G. D. (2021). European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Basic Life Support. Resuscitation, 161, 98–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.009
Saiani L, Brugnoli A. (2021) Trattato di Cure Infermieristiche 3rd ed. Sorbona: Edizioni Idelson Gnocchi; 2013
Teaching materials provided by the teacher
Teaching methods
Lectures using slides and videos
Discussion of examples from clinical practice.
Exercises.
Assessment methods
Written exam with multiple choice and open-ended questions. Discussion
Teaching tools
PC with video projector, exercises, various types of medical devices
Office hours
See the website of Claudia Magli