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Learning Objectives
At the end of the course the student will acquire the management skills of the person with permanent disabilities and chronic problems with particular reference to the oncological and geriatric. Have also developed, in the logic of a multidimensional approach, the continuity of care between different care settings. The student will be able to plan and manage care processes in multidisciplinary teams, from the stage of assessment of the need to define the therapeutic project in the paths of chronicity, disability, based on evidence and using quality improvement methods
Prerequisites
Introductory teachings: B3 - Report of help and adaptation B4 - vocational training activities C2 - Clinical nursing in the medical area
Teaching Methods
Lectures, seminars, interactive lessons also with the use of visual teaching aids and / or audio-visual and / or techniques such as sociodrama (after the training).
Type of Assessment
Check ongoing written and / or oral
Course program
The care pathways related to cerebrovascular disease, multiple sclerosis, progressive systemic sclerosis, m. Parkinson's, dementia, m. Alzheimer's, epilepsy, palliative care. Nursing expertise within the service network and organizational models for chronicity. Biopsychosocial status of the person in palliative care, of 'senior in nursing homes, hospitals, home. Tools and assessment processes for the 'assessment of functional status, psychological, cognitive, physical and social care needs. Identification and frail management. Prevention and reduction of risk factors and environmental favoring the decline in physical function, reduced quality of life, social isolation and the onset of disability. Interventions aimed at the prevention of risks and reduction of adverse events (infections, falls, confusion, psychomotor agitation). Prevention and treatment of common problems: dysphagia, malnutrition, falls, pain, incontinence, cognitive problems. Planning and management in multidisciplinary teams, through a multidimensional approach, the assessment phase of the need to define the therapeutic project. Concept of incurability, in curability. palliative care concept, ethical, legal issues, The accompaniment to the death, total pain, mourning components. The quality of life of patients with oncological problems, cronicodegenerativi, in the terminal phase of illness, the elderly institutionalized. Educational interventions for the active participation of the client and his family in the decisions and welfare programs. effective relational models for interacting with the older person, the person with oncologic disease and end-stage, family members and caregivers. Evaluation of the skills of the person, family, or caregiver to manage the changes linked to the phase terms