39553 - Advanced Seminars 1 (CE)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the training activities the student possesses knowledge that integrates and completes the contents of the teachings on welfare/educational/organizational aspects of specific and/or particular interest.

Course contents

1. Assistance to the patient with neurosurgical problems Develop care planning and management skills for people with:

• Cerebral traumatic pathologies: extradural hematoma, acute and chronic subdural hematoma, intraparenchymal hematoma.
• Spinal pathologies: cervical and lumbar disc herniation, stenosis lumbar spine, spondylolisthesis, vertebral trauma, spinal neoplasm. Primary brain tumor:
• Glioma, meningioma, pituitary adenoma Cerebrovascular disorders: arteriovenous malformation, cerebral aneurysm
• Intracranial hypertension

2. Management of blood components

• Know the different phases of the transfusion therapy management process
• The request for blood components: filling in the request, taking the sample, sending the sample and the request, collecting the transfusion units.
• Transport and storage of blood and blood components.
• Transfusion: patient identification and unit control, infusion.
• Treatment of any transfusion reactions
• Administer blood and blood components in compliance with current legislation and good practice in handling blood components and reducing transfusion risks

3. Clinical risk management

• Know and deepen the main regulatory and welfare issues concerning the safety of care involving the nurse professional
• Know how to approach to consider the error or near miss, an opportunity for learning and improvement
• Present and discuss ways of preventing and reducing risk;
• Know the different methods and tools for risk identification, analysis and management.

4. Assistance to the patient with oncological disease

• Patient-nurse relationship
• Chemotherapy management: manipulation, side effects, extravasation

5. Risk management related to drug therapy and narcotic drugs

• Know the steps for safe management of drug therapy.
• The main errors/risks and methods of prevention
• Management of the pharmaceutical cabinet: procurement, inventory management, storage, deadline
• Control Safely handle: concentrated electrolyte solutions, drugs, medicinal samples, personal drugs.
• Manage narcotic drugs: supply and return modules, loading and unloading register, custody.

6. Assistance to the person with difficult wounds To manage the patient with skin lesion:

• Evaluation of the patient and the lesion Wound treatment:
• Cleansing, debridement, advanced dressings, negative pressure therapy

7. Assistance to the person undergoing dialysis

• Develop skills in planning and managing care for people with renal and chronic insufficiency, with particular interest in: Extracorporeal dialysis and peritoneal dialysis:
• Principles, differences, advantages and disadvantages, enrollment criteria. Vascular access for haemodialysis: nursing management of AVF and CVC for dialysis.
• Movement of the dialysis patient and prevention of falls: the problem of uremic osteodystrophy
• Therapeutic education of the dialysis patient
• The problem of diet Palliative care in dialysis
  

Readings/Bibliography

Assistance to the patient with neurosurgical problems

-Brunner SuddarthMedical-surgical nursing; Fifth edition; CEA, 2017. Unità 16

-G. Staffa, Elements of neurosurgery,Timeo Editore, 2012

Any bibliography suggested in the classroom by the teacher

Management of blood components:

- P. Badon, M. Canesi, A. Monterosso, F. Pellegatta, Nursing procedures,Zanichelli, 2018. Scheda 65.

-Brunner Suddarth, Medical-surgical nursing; Fifth edition; CEA,2017. Capitolo 32.

-Company procedure -AUSL Romagna

Any bibliography suggested in the classroom by the teacher

Clinical risk management:

- Charles Vincent "Patient Safety", Ed Springer. Milano, 2011.

- Martini M., Pelati C., Clinical risk management, McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2011.

- Patient safety and clinical risk management: Manual for the training of healthcare professionals. Ministry of Health.

Any bibliography suggested in the classroom by the teacher

Assistance to the patient with oncological disease

-Brunner SuddarthMedical-surgical nursing; Fifth edition; CEA, 2017. Unità 15

-AIOM 2017 Guidelines. Elderly, Antiemetic Therapy, Neoplastic Cachexia, Cancer Pain Therapy, Psychosocial Assistance.

Any bibliography suggested in the classroom by the teacher

Risk management related to pharmacological therapy and narcotic drugs

Teaching methods

Teaching methods

-participatory frontal lesson on the main contents of the In-depth Seminars I.

The teacher is available for clarifications and suggestions by making an appointment via email.

Communications and teaching material will be available on virtual teaching resources.

Assessment methods

Methods of verifying and evaluating learning

Seminars I require at least 75% attendance. Maximum punctuality must be guaranteed. Attendance is present. The online mode will be activated only according to the Unibo criteria.

The assessment of learning takes place through a written test consisting of n. 30 multiple-choice and/or open-ended questions relating to the topics covered during in-depth seminars I. The time available is 30 minutes. The test is to be considered suitable if the correct answers are equal to or greater than 18

Teaching tools

Tools to support teaching In the classroom: projector with slide projection, flipchart

Office hours

See the website of Romina Floris