Learning objectives
Acquisition of core clinical, legal and management competences in palliative cares within multiprofessional team.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
Application of WHO definition of palliative care aimed at improving the quality of life of patients and their families and caregivers, the prevention and relief of physical psychological, and emotional pain through early identification, complete evaluation and treatment of pain and other related physical, psycho-social and spiritual issues.
Acquisition of the capacity of respecting ethical, deontological and legal principles.
Full programme
Definition of Palliative Care.
Instruments to define the need of palliative care.
Appropriatness and rimodulation of care.
Patient's needs and care impact.
Laws 219: regulations in terms of informed consent and advance treatment provisions
Assessment of care needs of family and patient choice.
Bibliography
The core comptences of Nursing in palliative care, Italian Society of Palliative CARE (SICP) 2018.
Teaching methods
The course will be held through lectures to Students either in the classroom (“in presenza”) or in synchronous-streaming (“in telepresenza”) on the Teams platform. Therefore, the opportunity of Student/Teacher interaction will be preserved both face to face and remotely, by the simultaneous use of the Teams platform.
Lectures will be supported by slide presentations, which will be available to students on the Elly platform (https://elly2020.medicina.unipr.it/).
Working groups will be adopted to improve the learning process.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination.
In case of the persistence of the health emergency, the exams will be conducted remotely, as follows:
structured written test conducted remotely (by Teams and Elly). The test consists of open questions on the course contents (reference texts + documents uploaded to Elly during the course). There is no penalty for incorrect answers.
The final mark, will be directly reported on Esse3.
Students with SLD / BSE must first contact Le Eli-che: support for students with disabilities, D.S.A., B.E.S. (https://sea.unipr.it/it/servizi/le-eli-che-supporto-studenti-con-disabilita-dsa-bes
Other information
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