Learning objectives
The course aims to enable the student to know and understand through lectures and interactive practices:
- The milestones that led to the current Health System
- The clinical activities and techniques to operate safely in the pediatric and neuropsychiatric rehabilitation.
Also provided are basic elements for the interpretation of these methods in order to allow the student to acquire the ability to use on their own the knowledge and understanding gained in carrying out these methods.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The student at the end of the course, using the knowledge gained will need to demonstrate knowledge and understanding about:
- The clinical activities and techniques to operate safely in the pediatric and neuropsychiatric rehabilitation;
- activities and techniques to communicate effectively with children and families in the pediatric and neuropsychiatric rehabilitation
Prerequisites
none
Course unit content
- The rights of the sick person
- General principles of care taking and ascertainment of the needs of the person
- Planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions
- Hygiene aspects related to the activity:
- Concepts of: infection, hospital infection, infection acquired in health institutions.
- Frequency and most usually detected types of infection.
- Main micro-organisms identified as being responsible for hospital infections.
- Consequences to the sick person, of the work team, social consequences.
- Legislative provisions concerning the prevention of hospital infections.
Circ. Min. San. (Italian Ministry of Health Circular) 52/1985 - 8/1988- National Health Plan 2006-08
- The spectrum of infection.
- Infection indicators.
- Potentially important variables in the study of infections
- Reservoir control measures
- ? transmission control
- control systems: surveillance concept, laboratory data, patient-oriented data.
- standard precautions and precautions that are supplementary to standards
- occupational risk
-Hygiene of the hands and the use of gloves and barrier devices
- cleaning, disinfection, antiseptics and disinfectants
- general concepts inherent in the main sterilization systems: heat, compressed steam, ethylene oxide
- guidelines for isolation measures
- guidelines for the prevention of surgical infections,
- from the establishment of the SSN (Italian National Health Service) to the reform of D.LGS. (Italian Legislative Decree) 502/92 (notes)
- DL (Italian Decree-Law) 14 September 1994, 743
- Law 26 February 1999, n. 42
- Decree 27.07.00
- Law 10 August 2000, n 251
- D.M. (Italian Ministerial Decree) 29 March 2001
- Decree 2 April 2001
- Deontological code of the orthoptist
- effective communication: influential factors
- communication with the child
- communication with adults
- supportive communication
- empathic ability
- interventions aimed at fostering communication
- assessment of the communication process
Full programme
- The rights of the sick person
- General principles of care taking and ascertainment of the needs of the person
- Planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions
- Hygiene aspects related to the activity:
- Concepts of: infection, hospital infection, infection acquired in health institutions.
- Frequency and most usually detected types of infection.
- Main micro-organisms identified as being responsible for hospital infections.
- Consequences to the sick person, of the work team, social consequences.
- Legislative provisions concerning the prevention of hospital infections.
Circ. Min. San. (Italian Ministry of Health Circular) 52/1985 - 8/1988- National Health Plan 2006-08
- The spectrum of infection.
- Infection indicators.
- Potentially important variables in the study of infections
- Reservoir control measures
- ? transmission control
- control systems: surveillance concept, laboratory data, patient-oriented data.
- standard precautions and precautions that are supplementary to standards
- occupational risk
-Hygiene of the hands and the use of gloves and barrier devices
- cleaning, disinfection, antiseptics and disinfectants
- general concepts inherent in the main sterilization systems: heat, compressed steam, ethylene oxide
- guidelines for isolation measures
- guidelines for the prevention of surgical infections,
- from the establishment of the SSN (Italian National Health Service) to the reform of D.LGS. (Italian Legislative Decree) 502/92 (notes)
- DL (Italian Decree-Law) 14 September 1994, 743
- Law 26 February 1999, n. 42
- Decree 27.07.00
- Law 10 August 2000, n 251
- D.M. (Italian Ministerial Decree) 29 March 2001
- Decree 2 April 2001
- Deontological code of the orthoptist
- effective communication: influential factors
- communication with the child
- communication with adults
- supportive communication
- empathic ability
- interventions aimed at fostering communication
- assessment of the communication process
Bibliography
o Recommended readings: - Marzia Canossa’s notes drawn from the Master course in Management with coordination functions in the health work sector of ac. Year 2003/04
- la prevenzione delle infezioni ospedaliere aa.vv. CAROCCI FABER 2004
- le infezioni ospedaliere. Prevenzione e controllo CENTRO SCIENTIFICO, TORINO 1993
- igiene e disinfezione clinica nelle strutture ospedaliere KAPPADUE, MILANO 2002
- IL TRATTATO COMPLETO DEL NURSING
J. Luckmann K.C Sorensen PICCIN ed. 1993 trd 1996
Teaching methods
During the lectures the contents of the course will be illustrated and discussed.
The course will be accompanied by practical sessions and exercises in order to provide the opportunity for each student to become acquainted with all the possible situations concerning pediatric and neuro-rehabilitation.
Assessment methods and criteria
The assessment of the achievement of the objectives of the course consists of a written exam.
Through questions about the contents of the course, will be determined whether the student has achieved the goal of knowledge and understanding of the content. To pass the exam, the student must correctly answer at least 60% of applications. The final grade is out of thirty, in proportion to the number of correct answers. In case, the student may improve the final score, of no more than 3 points, through the oral discussion of an additional question.
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