21348 - Nursing in the Surgery Area (FO)

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student will possess the knowledge related to taking charge of the person/family in the context of the priority health problems of the surgical area. It identifies, plans and evaluates nursing care interventions and collaborates with other professionals in diagnostic-therapeutic-care pathways.

Course contents

Principles of safety in the operating room and in the surgical field, PDTA, ERAS protocol.

Management of the surgical patient in all phases of care:

  • Preoperative nursing care (pre-admission analysis, preoperative assessment, education and preparation for surgery, informed consent, documentation, anxiety management, etc.);
  • Intraoperative nursing care (roles, functions and responsibilities of the surgical team, the intraoperative environment, types of anesthesia and sedation, risk management, etc.);
  • Postoperative nursing care (drainage management, medication management, pain management, infection management, "TIPO" hospitalization, patient monitoring, etc.).

 

  • Care planning of cases related to:

    Abdominal surgery,
    neck-larynx surgery,
    thoracic surgery,
    breast surgery,
    vascular surgery,
    urological surgery,
    Orthopedic Surgery

Readings/Bibliography

 

  • Janice l. Hinkle Kerry H. Cheever Kristen J. Overbaugh "Brunner Suddarth “Infermieristica Medico-Chirurgica “ VI edizione, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano 2024
  • Linda Carpenito "Piani di assistenza infermieristica. Assistenza infermieristica centrata sulla persona assistita e sulla famiglia: trasferimento dall'ambito ospedaliero a quello domiciliare", Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano 2019
  • Alberto di Leo, BRUGNOLLI Anna – SAIANI Luisa (2023) Trattato di Chirurgia e Infermieristica - Edizioni Idelson Gnocchi 1908
  • O. Ljungqvist, N. Francis, R. Urman, ERAS, Protocolli per il miglioramento del recupero dopo l' intervento chirurgico, Monduzzi esitori 2024

Teaching methods

Interactive lectures with problem-based method; case discussion.

Assessment methods

The assessment of learning will be carried out by means of an oral exam

Teaching tools

Slides, Videos

Office hours

See the website of Rita Castellano