99218 - Infermieristica nella cronicità (FO)

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the lessons, students will possess knowledge about the methodology and clinical-care models of caring for  patient/family/community, and to manage and take care people in chronic conditions. They will develop knowledge of therapeutic education methodology.

Course contents

Health, Illness, and Frailty:

- Fragile Patients and Geriatric Patients

  • The Fragile Child
  • Active Aging

Multidisciplinary Assessment Scales

Chronic Diseases

Chronic Care Model

The Role of the Caregiver

Chronic conditions:

  • Spinal cord injury
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Dementia
  • Stroke
  • Muscular Dystrophy

Rehabilitation and therapeutic education:

  • The rehabilitation project
  • The interprofessional rehabilitation team
  • Rehabilitation nursing

Different kinds of rehabilitation (after heart disease, after psychiatric disease, after respiratory disease)

Disability care: prosthetics, orthoses, and aids

Principles of therapeutic education for major chronic conditions Therapeutic education for: diabetes, heart failure, dialysis, incontinence, hip fracture

From hospital to community:

  • Hospital care
  • PDTA
  • Hospital care models (case management)
  • Hospital discharge

From hospital to community: the protected discharge process and the activities of the Central Hospital-Community (COT)

PNRR and Decree No. 77 of May 23, 2022, "Regulation defining models and standards for the development of community care in the National Health Service": the reorganization of the community

 

Readings/Bibliography

Chiari P., Santullo A., L'INFERMIERE CASE MANAGER, DALLA TEORIA ALLA PRASSI, 2° edizione, ed. McGraw-Hill Education, 2011

D'Ivernois J-F. et al., EDUCARE IL PAZIENTE. UN APPROCCIO PEDAGOGICO, 3° edizione, ed. McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Marcadelli S. et al., ASSISTENZA DOMICILIARE E CURE PRIMARIE. IL NUOVO ORIZZONTE DELLA PROFESSIONE INFERMIERISTICA, 1° edizione, ed. Edra, 2018

MisleJ M., Paoletti F., L'INFERMIERE DI FAMIGLIA E DI COMUNITA' E IL DIRITTO DI VIVERE A CASA ANCHE QUANDO SEMBRA IMPOSSIBILE.., ed. Maggiori, 2008

Scalorbi S., INFERMIERISTICA PREVENTIVA E DI COMUNITA', ed. McGraw-Hill Education, 2012

Vigilante L., SANITA' DI INIZIATIVA: IL CRONIC CARE MODEL. APPLICAZIONE DEL MODELLO NEL SISTEMA SANITARIO NAZIONALE ITALIANO., ed. Accademiche Italiane, 2017

Decree of 23 May 2022, no. 77 “Regulation establishing models and standards for the development of territorial care in the National Health Service”.

 

Teaching methods

Lessons 

Clinical case discussion

Assessment methods

Written test and possible oral exam

Teaching tools

Computer and video projector

Texts

Office hours

See the website of Chiara Vannini