- Docente: Denise Garattoni
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/45
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)
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from Oct 17, 2023 to Dec 05, 2023
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module the student possesses the knowledge, as far as he is competent, relating to the pathophysiologicalmechanisms in the transmission of pain and/or its manifestations; must understand the peculiarity and role of the nurse in the palliative care system; plan nursing care for the person with pain., explore the different strategies in the pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of acute and chronic pain; know the aids used in pain therapy.
Course contents
1. Introduction to pain nursing.
2. The right not to suffer:
- national and regional legislation
- nursing responsibilities
3. Pathophysiology of pain
4. Classification and characteristics of pain
5. The pain management process and its relation to the nursing care process:
- Assessment
- Treatment
- Documentation
- Assessment
6. Care specificities in pain management:
- oncological
- in the elderly
- post-operative and procedural
7. Pain management in an emergency/urgency
Readings/Bibliography
RF Craven C J Hirnle “Fundamental Principles of Nursing” Volume 1 Chapter 11; Volume 2
RNAO Assessment & management of Pain, November 2002 and subsequent updates, Italian translation by Centro EBN Sant Orsola-Malpighi
M Ercolani The perception of pain
Il Mulino 2007 GFT "The Nursing triage" third edition Mc Graw Hill
Nursing diagnoses
Teaching methods
Lectures and discussion of clinical cases
Assessment methods
Evaluation with multiple choice quizzes and open questions
Teaching tools
PC and projector
Office hours
See the website of Denise Garattoni