39266 - Nursing Internship 1 (BO2)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the internship the student is able to identify and satisfy the needs of the person with low care complexity. The student is able to establish effective interpersonal relationships and activate a supportive relationship towards the person/family. The student is able to enter with their activities in the organization of the service respecting the ethical principles of the profession.

Course contents

 

The student will acquire the technical, relational knowledge and skills to identify and satisfy the person’s low-complexity care problems.

The specific objectives aim to develop:

- critical thinking and decision-making skills consistent with the responsibility of general nursing recognized by the profile (DM 739/94);

- expertise in intra- and inter-professional team work with a particular focus on multidisciplinary confrontation and synergies;

- relational competence towards the person and the family;

- the ability to self-train through continuous training and to develop a cultural attitude based on the long-life learning approach, starting from a solid basic training.

Across the entire training course, we intend to develop a sensitivity and an attitude based on the values expressed by the Code of Ethics of the Nurse.

- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding such as:

1. carry out the nursing assessment and identify the related assistance needs in low complexity situations
2. provide nursing, general, preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitation assistance to the person, the family in situations of low care complexity
3. establish and promote the relationship of aid
4. implement technical skills
5. ensure the correct application of diagnostic-therapeutic prescriptions
6. acting in an integrated way with other health and social professions
7. promote the ethical principles of the profession.

The ability to understand and apply the acquired knowledge is achieved with the internship activity integrated by the various forms of tutoring and laboratory activities.

These activities allow the student to integrate, compare and apply the knowledge obtained through theoretical teaching activities and individual study, in clinical nursing practice, encouraging critical reflection on the activities carried out during periodic individual and group meetings.

- The student acquire independent judgment skills such as:

1. identify specific competence problems in low-complexity care situations
2. define the expected welfare outcomes
3. establish the appropriate assistance measures on the basis of the priorities and will of the assisted person
4. evaluate the results achieved also in terms of quality and the process of assistance
5. identify, in collaboration with other professionals, the health needs of the person
6. identify situations in conflict with the ethical principles of the profession

The acquisition of knowledge and the ability to apply them consciously and responsibly in the clinical internship activity, allow the student to develop the independent judgment skills necessary to practice nursing.

- Communication skills such as:

1. use of verbal and non-verbal communication in nursing care
2. teamwork
3. use of scientific technical language in nursing documentation.

Communication skills are developed during clinical internships, specific workshops, tutoring meetings, group work.

- Learning skills such as:

1. identify the training needs and how to reach them
2. Select content that is consistent with the training needs
3. keep the skills up to date
4. correctly apply the legislation concerning the practice of the nursing profession in accordance with the rules of ethics and in the general regulatory framework.


The learning ability is developed throughout the course of studies within the various activities proposed: lectures, seminars, workshops, tutoring, internship, discussion with teachers and professionals, individual study.

The program mainly refers to the integrative activities and laboratories carried out during the academic year founding the prerequisites in the knowledge of the theoretical lessons of the study plan and the clinical internship experience.

To the techniques addressed in the workshops of gestures, are added all the others that have been inserted and presented in classroom during the lessons of the Integrated Course of General and Applied Nursing. The methodological laboratory refers to individual and group meetings led by the course tutors for the application of the assistance process, in particular the phase of assessment and targeted assessment and definition of nursing diagnoses, adopting the Bifocal Model of Clinical Practice of L.J. Carpenito and/or the Functional Responses Model of Gordon with Taxonomy N.A.N.D.A., applied to persons assisted by the trainee student.

Access to the internship is subject to the eligibility of the LABORATORIES OF BASIC NURSING CARE (C.I.) upon attendance. (see programs Laboratory of Fundamental Care and Seminar Safety of Care)

Readings/Bibliography

Operating instructions, Protocols, Procedures in use in training places, Check-list for educational use drawn up by the training section Bologna 2 during laboratories of the academic year of reference.

For the technical contents presented by the experts during the theoretical classroom activity, laboratories and integrative activities, the bibliographical references are the texts identified by the experts and present in the bibliography of the teacher.

For methodological laboratories the texts are:

Diagnosi Infermieristiche - Definizione e classificazione 2021 - 2023 dodicesima edizione ; Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.

Carpenito L.J.; Piani di assistenza infermieristica; Assistenza infermieristica centrata sulla persona e sulla famiglia: trasferimento dall'ambito ospedaliero a quello domiciliare. CEA 3° Ed. Milano 2020.

Teaching methods

Nursing Internship 1 provides a clinical experience with guided internship and learning objectives planned for the course year, and other activities such as:

- active teaching methods, small group work, guided activities and classroom exercises on care cases prepared by teaching tutors;
- simulation room, activities in a small group conducted by experts, in connection with the theoretical prerequisites and the guided internship experience with specific learning objectives;
- individual study.

Assessment methods

The way to access the internship exam is reported in the Internship Regulations of CdL.

The internship exam can be completed after finishing the internship credits provided in the study plan and after reaching the achievement of the objectives set for the internship.

The Nursing Internship Exam 1 includes an examination that will be divided as follows:

- a care planning in written form, dealing with a clinical case with low care complexity that must be developed in a time defined on the basis of the Conceptual Model of reference in the Training Section.

Passing the written test allows access to the remaining oral/practical tests consisting of:

- the simulation of a nursing technique drawn among those carried out in the program. The evaluation will be carried out using the check-lists built inside the gestural laboratories.
- an oral test that evaluates the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of scientific content and professional legislation referring to nursing care and judgment in relation to care situations - low assistance complexity proposed.
- discussion of the case elaborated during the internship using the nursing folder for educational use.

Teaching tools

In order to support the internship activity, the student can use the evaluation sheet containing the objectives of the internship consistent with the courses and laboratories, the booklet-diary of practical technical activities and internships and the nursing folder for educational use.

Office hours

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