21348 - Nursing in the Surgery Area (CE)

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student possesses the knowledge relating to taking charge of the person/family in the context of priority health problems in the surgical area. Identifies, plqans and evaluates assistance interventions and collaborates with other professional figures in the diagnostic and therapeutic paths.

Course contents

general part

  • perioperative care
  • surgical drainages: types,purposes,indications and management
  • sng: types,purposes,indictions and management
  • postoperative complications
  • artificial nutrition: role of the nurse
  • intestinal ostomy: types,purposes,indications and management

abdominal surgery

  • diagnostic examinations of the gastrointestinal system

nursing care for the person with:

  • hernias of the abdominal wall
  • peptic ulcer
  • gastric cancer
  • colorectal neoplasm
  • diverticular disease
  • proctological pathologies
  • peritoneal carcinosis
  • liver diagnostic tests
  • cholelithiasis
  • pancreatic cancer

neck and chest surgery

nursing care for the person with:

  • thyroid disease
  • pneumothorax
  • lung cancer

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS): a multimodal path aimed at reducing surgical stress

vascular surgery

nursing care for the person with:

  • carotid stenosis
  • abdominal aortic aneurysm
  • chronic obstructive arteriopathy
  • lower limb

emergency surgery

nursing care for the person with:

  • acute abdomen
  • appendicitis
  • peritonitis
  • intestinal obstruction
  • pancreatitis
  • digestive bleeding
  • intestinal infarction
  • polytrauma

urological surgery

  • diagnostic tests of the urological system

nursing care for the person with:

  • urinary tract stones
  • benign prostatic hypertrophy
  • neoplastic pathologies of the prostate, kidneys and bludder
  • urological ostomies: types,purposes,management and assistance

Readings/Bibliography

  • “addome acuto”, b. taylor, ed. mosby italia
  • “chirurgia per le professioni sanitarie”, m. lise, ed. piccin
  • “argomenti di chirurgia”, piat, borghese, chiesa, ed. ambrosiana
  • “coloproctologia, stomia e incontinenza”, r. zanotti, ed. carocci faber
  • “l’assistenza infermieristica in chirurgia vascolare”, chiesa, melissano, ed. s.a.s.
  • "chirurgia vascolare", setacci, ed minerva medica
  • “manuale di chirurgia generale per scienze infermieristiche”, giulietti, marrano, monduzzi editore
  • Linee Guida ATLS (IX edition)
  • "day surgery, il giorno dopo", palmieri, raspadori, ed. masson
  • "manuale di chirurgia d'urgenza", sartelli, catena, pacini editore
  • "manuale di chirurgia", parmeggiani, ed idelson-gnocchi
  • "nursing medico chirurgico", brunner suddath, ed ambrosiana
  • "manuale di chirurgia urologica", preminger,smith,howard,mcguire, ed. saunders
  • "glenn's urologic surgery", Graham,keane, ed. lippincott e wilkins
  • Gustafsson UO, Scott MJ, Schwenk W, et al.; Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society, for
    Perioperative Care; European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN); International
    Association for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition (IASMEN). Guidelines for perioperative care in
    elective colonic surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS(®)) Society recommendations.
    World J Surge 2013
  • Golder HJ, Papalois V. Enhanced Recovery after Surgery:
    History, Key Advancements and Developments in Transplant
    Surgery. J Clin Med. 2021 Apr 12
  • Mendes DIA, Ferrito CRAC, Gonçalves MIR. Nursing
    Interventions in the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: Scoping
    Review. Rev Bras Enferm. 2018

Teaching methods

frontal lesson with presentation of clinical cases and resolution with problem solving methodology

Assessment methods

interview with verification of learning and heoretical application of the notions learned to clinical cases

Teaching tools

pc and video projector

Office hours

See the website of Susy Milandri