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

Current year courses

Relationship in nursing care (2018/2019)

Course code: 4S000096
Credits: 5
Coordinator: Luisa Saiani

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Teaching is organised as follows:
Unit	Credits	Academic sector	Period	Academic staff
PRINCIPI E TECNICHE DELLA RELAZIONE ASSISTENZIALE	2	MED/45-NURSING	INF TN - 2° anno 1° sem	Moira Moser
EDUCAZIONE TERAPEUTICA	1	MED/45-NURSING	INF TN - 2° anno 1° sem	Luisa Saiani
PSICOLOGIA CLINICA	2	M-PSI/08-CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY	INF TN - 1° anno 2° sem	Elena Bravi

Learning outcomes

This course provides knowledge and methods to develop relational and educational skills. It provides an introduction to a global vision of psychological development and factors that influence needs’ understanding. It also provides principles, techniques and strategies to manage an effective communication with the person and the family. The development of educational skill is important for promoting self-care and empowerment of people with chronic diseases.
The course divides into the following modules:
- clinical psychology
- principles and techniques of caring relationship
- therapeutic education
for a total of 5 ECTS credits.

Syllabus

Clinical psychology: the basic functions of human thought and behavior that can influence prevention and treatment behaviors; coping and defense mechanisms to the disease; attitudes that influence therapeutic compliance; emotional and psychological implications of caring sick children and terminally ill people.
Principles and techniques of caring relationship: communicative process; models of helping relationship; distortions in communication, characteristics of a good caring relationship; patient's agenda.
Therapeutic education: definitions, aims, recipients of therapeutic education; the stages of educational planning; stages of behaviors change; concept of self-efficacy and locus of control; characteristics of educational counseling, critical analysis of written information/education materials.

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam consists in a multiple choice and open questions over the concepts covered in the three courses. 20% of the questions will assess the theoretical knowledge and the conceptual definitions; 40% of the questions will verify the students' ability to apply the learned techniques to the assessment and interpretation of specific scenarios; 40% of the questions will verify the students' ability to apply the learned techniques to solve specific scenarios.
The exam will be passed by achieving the minimum passing score on all three modules.

Reference books
Author	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Note
Saiani L, Brugnolli A	Trattato Cure Infermieristiche	Idelson Gnocchi	2014