Vai al contenuto principale Vai al footer
Università degli Studi di Parma Università degli Studi di Parma
Health professions degree in
Nursing
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Medicine and Surgery

HISTORY OF NURSING
cod. PC1010801

Academic year 2023/24
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Sara POSLA
Academic discipline
Storia della medicina (MED/02)
Field
Scienze propedeutiche
Type of training activity
Basic
20 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
hub: PIACENZA
course unit
in ITALIAN
lectures timetable unavailable
exam calls

Integrated course unit module: General nursing I and bioethics

Print

Learning objectives

Identify the origin and development of the nurse figure in history and understand
how the profession has evolved up to the present day.
Understand the theoretical principles behind the nursing sciences

Prerequisites

- - -

Course unit content

history of nursing and medicine,
historical-legislative path nursing training,
identity of the nurse,
nursing theories

Full programme

rigins of care
• Greek and Roman period
• Christianity
• middle ages
• 1600, 1700
• 1800 and Florence Nightingale
• 1900 and birth of nursing schools in Europe and Italy
• cultural and historical path of nursing schools and university access
• identity and role of the nurse (professional profile ..)
• analysis of the currents of thought:
1. school of needs (Henderson, Orem)
2. school of interaction (Peplau)
3. school of results (Sister Callista Roy)
4. caring school / caring (Watson)
• Benner and Doran
-missed care (Kalisch)
-fundamental of care (Kitson

Bibliography

Cecilia Sironi, 2012, L'infermiere in Italia: storia di una professione, Professioni
Sanitarie-Carrocci Faber
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, 2013, Teoretica infermieristica,sviluppo e progresso della
filosofia e delle teorie infermieristiche, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
Mortari, Saiani, gesti e pensieri di cura, Mc Graw Hill

Teaching methods

frontal lessons and group work

Assessment methods and criteria

oral exam

Other information

- - -

2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

- - -