APPLIED CLINICAL NURSING 3 - CO

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in NURSING
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2023/2024
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2025/2026
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Seat of the course: 
Como - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Credits: 
2
Standard lectures hours: 
30
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (30 hours)

Oral examination.
At first: fundamental knowledge (maybe written, shortly)
Subsequently: to reason about application and self-care skills promoting

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Nursing and management and planning about the problems of elderly and frailty.
Nursing and management and planning about adults with neurological and nephrological diseases.
Instruments and scales to measure needs and outcomes elder age-linked.

Geriatric nursing

1. The social-cultural and physiological dimension of aging
2. Frail elderly
3. The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and its tools
4. Identification of more common nursing care needs (BAI) in elderly
5. Delirium in elderly
6. Nursing in dementia and Alzheimer disease
7. Parkinson’s disease and nursing care
8. Multiple Sclerosis (SM) and nursing care
9. Acute and Chronic kidney disease: assessment and nursing
10. Dialysis: outcomes, treatments and nursing
11. Diet and hydration in kidney disease
12. Kidney transplant

Classroom lessons

Professors

CAVADINI GIOVANNI