Bachelor's degree in Nursing (to qualify as a nurse) (Trento)

Current year courses

Community nursing (2018/2019)

Course code: 4S000083
Credits: 6
Coordinator: Luisa Saiani

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Teaching is organised as follows:
Unit	Credits	Academic sector	Period	Academic staff
INFERMIERISTICA DI COMUNITA'	1	MED/45-NURSING	INF TN - 3° anno 2° sem	Luisa Saiani
INFERMIERISTICA IN SALUTE MENTALE	1	MED/45-NURSING	INF TN - 3° anno 2° sem	Marta Parolin
SOCIOLOGIA DELLA FAMIGLIA	1	SPS/07-GENERAL SOCIOLOGY	INF TN - 3° anno 2° sem	Francesco Miele
PSICOLOGIA DEI GRUPPI	2	M-PSI/01-GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY	INF TN - 3° anno 2° sem	Alba Civilleri
PSICHIATRIA	1	MED/25-PSYCHIATRY	INF TN - 3° anno 2° sem	Corrado Barbui

Learning outcomes

The course offers knowledge and reflections on how the community can face health and social needs.
The students will be able to recognize the contribution of the psychosocial sciences to understand the groups dynamics and the changes of family in a multicultural society, to understand the groups’ decision-making process, especially in the working settings. Moreover the students will learn important skills such how to deliver care in the community and in the psychiatric setting .
The course is divided into the following modules:
- community nursing
- sociology of health and family
- psychology of groups
- mental health nursing
- psychiatry
for a total of 6 ECTS credits.

Syllabus

- process of decision making in the professional groups
- formal and informal networks in the welfare model
- family models in multicultural societies
- psychopathologies and psychiatric semeiotics
- caring approach to the person with mental illness and his/her family
- community nursing
- planned discharge and continuity of care

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam consists in two written tests referring respectively to the block of the three modules of group psychology, community nursing, sociology of health and family and the block related to psychiatry and nursing in mental health. There will be open and multiple-choice questions, aimed to assess the knowledge learned and the students’ ability to apply them into the practice. The exam has to be passed by achieving the minimum passing score on all five modules.

Reference books
Author	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Note
Saiani L, Brugnolli A	Trattato Cure Infermieristiche	Idelson Gnocchi	2014
Vincenzo Raucci, Giovanni Spaccapeli	Fondamenti di infermieristica in salute mentale (Edizione 1)	Maggioli Editore	2013	9788838783562
Barelli P, Spagnolli E	Nursing di Salute Mentale	Carocci editore, Roma	2004
Tatarelli	Manuale di psichiatria e salute mentale per le lauree sanitarie	Piccin	2009	9788829919628