76133 - Professional Responsibility (BO)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, the student should be familiar with the most frequent hypotheses of professional liability in nursing and midwifery and how to prevent, communicate and manage them.

Course contents

-Professional responsibility definitions and basic concepts.

-Analyze reference legislation in relation to clinical, organizational and managerial professional responsibility of the nursing and midwifery profession.

- Legal and liability profiles of the nursing and midwifery profession in relation to functions in the organization.

-Implications on professional responsibility at the clinical care and organizational-management level, introduced by Law March 8, 2017, No. 24 Provisions on the safety of care and the assisted person, as well as on the professional responsibility of health professions.

-Deepen areas of responsibility and margins of decision-making in the health care profession of nursing and midwifery with special attention to the areas and boundaries of responsibility and decision-making in clinical care activities in collaboration with Social Workers.

-Legal and responsibility profiles of the nursing and midwifery profession in relation to clinical activity: medical guilt and professional responsibility.

-Proposal of tools for the analysis of cases to deepen issues of professional responsibility.
- Responsibility of teams: synchronic and diachronic professional cooperation.

- Knowledge of the legal basis of professional liability in criminal, civil (contractual and extra-contractual) and administrative matters.

-Analysis and discussion of cases in order to verify the ability to critically reason about professional liability in nursing and midwifery.

Readings/Bibliography

- Daniele Rodríguez Professione ostetrica/o. Aspetti di medicina legale e responsabilità, Eleda Editore, Dicembre 2010.

- Benci L. Aspetti giuridici della professione infermieristica, McGraw-Hill, 2015.

-M. Zagra Argo A. Medicina legale orientata per problemi, ed Edra 2018

-Luca Benci et altri , [http://www.quotidianosanita.it/ebook_3.php] Edizioni Quotidiano Sanità, Roma, Marzo 2017.

-Reference articles will be provided and indicated during class.

Teaching methods

-Classroom lectures supported by power-point presentations that will be provided to students.
-Group case analysis and discussion with classroom simulations of clinical and/or organizational cases and professional responsibilities.
-Discussion

Assessment methods

-The student will be required to conduct written examination with development of a project work on the implications of professional responsibility aimed at the most frequent hypotheses in nursing and midwifery and the actions necessary to put in place the relevant modes of prevention, communication and management at the clinical care and/or organizational-management level.Predetermined timelines for preparation of project work.

Assessment criteria

The examination ‘exam involves the structuring of a project work within the discipline that aims to test the student's ability to apply the knowledge learnt and to make the necessary logical-deductive connections.

In particular, the following will be assessed in increasing order of importance

- the level of planning achieved in the preparation of the project work;

- the relevance of the objectives and of the chosen project/pathway to the profile of the Master's Degree student in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences

- the degree of achievement of the expected training objectives;

- the activities proposed in the project to achieve these objectives.

- the ability to foster the development of critical and reflective thinking with the application of legal aspects to everyday practice and events.

The criteria for assessing the project are: clarity and correctness of presentation, relevance and coherence of content

- organisation of the arguments, substantiation of statements, ability to reflect and rework the experience using also the learned theoretical models;

- use of appropriate literature.

- The ability to argue, to link and to synthesise information clearly and comprehensively will be considered in the evaluation of the project work.

On the basis of the above criteria, the evaluation will be divided into thirtieths.

Grading of the final grade

- Preparation on a very limited number of topics covered in the course and ability to analyse which only emerges with the help of the lecturer, expression in language which is correct overall, insufficient ability to critically review → 18-19;

- Preparation on a very limited number of topics covered in the course and ability to analyse independently only on purely executive issues, little ability to apply knowledge to concrete cases, expression in barely correct language → 20-24;

- Fully comprehensive preparation on the topics covered in the course, ability to make autonomous choices of critical analysis, mastery of specific terminology, ability to link topics to concrete cases and other disciplines → 25-29

- Fully comprehensive preparation on the topics addressed in the course, ability to make autonomous choices of critical analysis and linking, excellent critical and autonomous thinking skills, full command of the specific terminology and ability to argue and self-reflect → 30-30L.

• Each student will receive a written report from the lecturer individually on the evaluation of the project work with descriptive and personalised assessments.
  

Teaching tools

- Lecture notes.
- Legislation and references given during the lectures and made  available to the lecturer.
-Examples of case studies prepared by the lecturer.

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