IN12A6B - GENERAL AND CLINICAL NURSING

The teaching of General and Clinical Nursing, in compliance with the provisions of the Didactic Regulations in Article no. 3 ‘Specific educational objectives and expected competences’, aims to provide the knowledge to implement the nursing process, in all its phases, as a scientific method of application of the nursing discipline; to know the nursing interventions and care activities with regard to: urinary and intestinal elimination needs, feeding needs, rest and sleep needs, treatment needs, end-of-life processing. EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES (LEARNING Outcomes): Knowledge and understanding: to apply technical and care planning interventions according to the clinical method and evidence to guide decision-making; to describe the occurrence of signs and symptoms in the patient, their interrelationship and how they can be assessed; to describe the main drug-drug interactions; to describe how drug therapy is administered naturally. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: to conduct a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the individual's care needs; to use assessment techniques to collect data accurately on the main health problems of the resident; to analyse and interpret accurately the data collected through the assessment of the resident; to plan the delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the resident and the interdisciplinary care team; to assess correctly the outcomes of interventions. Autonomy of judgement (Making judgements): the student will be able to collect and interpret data in order to make judgements autonomously in the context of general (basic) care taking, which will be implemented in subsequent courses. Communication skills: the student will be able to communicate relevant information to interlocutors, using appropriate terminology and modulating it to their ability to understand. Learning skills: the student will develop independent study skills; he/she will demonstrate the ability to cultivate doubts and tolerate uncertainties arising from study and practice, asking suitable and relevant questions in order to resolve them; he/she will demonstrate self-assessment skills.