99442 - Accertamento ed esame obiettivo infermieristico (IMOLA)

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5907)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and skills to be achieved. At the end of the learning activities, the student possesses knowledge regarding the methods of data collection, according to a nursing model, useful for the identification of clinical assistive problems of the patient. These problems can be nursing problems or integrated nursing problems.

Course contents

In particular, the student will be able to:

Define the assessment phase in the nursing process
Identify purposes and types of assessment
identify types and sources of data
describe the phases of assessment
describe Gordon's functional models of health for the organisation of data
Identify assessment tools, techniques and models
Apply the main methods for collecting subjective and objective data (interview and physical examination)
Identify the components of the global health assessment
Compile the main rating scales

The programme is divided into the following macro-topics:

THE NURSING PROCESS AND ASSESSMENT

What is nursing assessment and its purpose

Types of assessment

Nursing competences and critical thinking

DATA COLLECTION

Types of data

Data sources

Data quality

METHODS OF NURSING ASSESSMENT

Observation

Interview

Structured instruments: scales and questionnaires

Objective examination: preparation, instruments, techniques, execution (head-foot model)

DATA VALIDATION

Rational

Data inferences

Validation methods

DATA ORGANISATION

Gordon's functional models of health

Documentation

Readings/Bibliography

L. Saiani, A. Brugnolli ‘Treatise on Nursing Care’ 3rd Edition, CEA Milan 2021, chapter 5 and 6.

J.M. Willkinson, ‘Nursing Process and Critical Thinking’ 3rd Edition, CEA Milan 2013

R.F. Craven - C.J. Hirnle, ‘Fundamental principles of nursing care’ 7th Edition, CEA Milan 2024, unit 2 chapter 6.

For further reading:

B. Hogan-Quigley, M.L. Palm, L. Bickley ‘Bates. Assessment for nursing care. Physical examination and history of the person cared for', CEA Milan 2017

A. Santullo, ‘Rating scales in healthcare’ McGraw-Hill publisher 2008

Teaching methods

Frontal lecture

Exercises

Assessment methods

The examination consists of a written test with 31 multiple-choice questions.

The grade is in thirtieths and a minimum acceptable level of 18/30 is required to pass the test.

Teaching tools

PC and video projection system

Flipchart

Video viewing

Slides

Teaching material published on the Virtual Platform

Office hours

See the website of Maria Cristina Lasorsa