91121 - Innovative Models of Caring and Ethics in Nursing (BO)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the teaching, the student should possess knowledge and skills to create a professional environment that promotes excellence, creates a climate of effective communication, and promotes decision-making, accountability, and autonomy of professionals.

Course contents

Organizational innovation

• What definition?
• Beneficiaries, excluded and victims
• How is organizational innovation generated?
• The three types of organizational change
• Change management model
• Barriers to change
• Techniques for overcoming resistance to change


The evolution of organizations

• From hierarchical structures to "governing the unexpected"
• Weick: meaning-making as knowledge and as an organization
• Weick: from vulnerability to organizational resilience

From work group to group work

• The different types of groups
• The group as a container of needs
• The goal of the group
• The group climate

Leadership

• Leadership, technique, science or art?
• Leadership and followership
• The leader as goal keeper
• Knowing how to reward
• Caring
• Delegation

Workshops (in definition)

Readings/Bibliography

(in definition)

Teaching methods

Lectures
In-depth readings
Group work

Assessment methods

Formative assessment: exercises, cases, laboratory


Summative assessment: discussion of a plan/program/project demonstrating interpretation/reasoning and problem solving/decision-making skills with respect to the topics covered; oral evidence on the content covered

Assessment of the plan/program/project will take into account the completeness and correctness of what is given, the use of scientific language, and the possible presence of errors classifiable as "frequent" that were discussed as part of the lectures.

The evaluation of the oral examination will take into account the completeness and correctness of the content and the use of scientific language, as well as the ability to determine the relationship between different concepts.

The exam will be considered passed if the tests of the remaining modules are also sufficient.


Grading of the final grade

Failure to apply the indicated Models/Methods, inadequate language, scarcity/absence of content: insufficient

Mechanical application of the indicated Methods/Methods, overall correct language, presence of major content→ 18-19

Application of the Methods/Models with sufficient adaptation to the subject matter, expression in correct language presence of contents, ability to determine the main relationships between different concepts.→ 20-24
Application of Methods/Models adequate to the topic covered, mastery of specific terminology, presence of all content, ability to determine the relationship between different concepts.→ 25-29

Application of Methods/Models adequate and comprehensive with respect to the topic covered, originality of the topic, full mastery of the specific terminology, ability to argue, self-assessment and self-reflection, in-depth coverage of content, and full ability to determine the relationship between different concepts. → 30-30L

The test will be conducted according to the instructions contained in the University regulations (which you are invited to consult) and according to any other indications provided from time to time by the Academic Bodies

For clarification requests, please contact the Lecturer via Teams or by scheduling an appointment via electronic diary

Teaching tools

PC and video projector, teaching materials

Office hours

See the website of Pietro Giurdanella