. To provide the theoretical and practical tools to recognize the main aspects of pathologies in Internal Medicine.
• To provide basic information aimed at those fundamental skills for the knowledge of the disease and the patient, which make the future nurse aware of the problem to whose resolution it will contribute.
• Aspects of nursing competence management for the modern nurse student: educational function, patient monitoring, management of systems for continuity of care and acquisition of diagnostic-instrumental skills.
The course aims to develop the basic skills of learners useful to senior management
of patients in all care settings, home, RSA, Hospital.
The classes will tend to the presentation of the elder world, with its fragility and its
needs. Will be developed in particular areas relating to -nurse User report does not
disjointed from the deepening of clinical care techniques.
Internal Medicine - The lectures will be held in frontal mode with the help of slides in power-point format, illustration and commentary on the images of instrumental investigations, report on clinical cases.
If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes may be introduced withrespect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus
1. Care paradigms: models in acute, chronic disease and in elderly
2. Primary (essential) arterial hypertension
3. Secondary arterial hypertension
4. Arterial Hypotension / Syncope
5. Heart failure
6. Edema syndromes
7. Geriatric syndromes (the Five I’s): general aspects
8. Uncomplicated and complicated urinary tract infections (UTIs)
9. Inflammatory prostatitis in the elderly (= prostate adenomyomitis / related BPH and its comorbidities (UPOINT phenotype)
10. Diabetes mellitus and its complications
11. Late onset and / or functional male hypogonadism (associated with systemic diseases)
12. Bronchial asthma
13. COPD
14. Pneumonia
15. Jaundice
16. Chronic liver diseases
17. Thyroid diseases (Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism)
18. Hypercorticadrenalism (S. Cushing; S. Cohn; from excessive production of sex steroids)
Definition and fields of geriatrics
• The geriatric nurse and the relevant legislation
• Approach to the geriatric patient
• General and aging issues
• demography Brief
• psychological aging and quality of life
• unintentional weight loss, nutritional and aging
• Constipation in elderly patients
• entrapment syndrome
• Osteoporosis
• Instability and falls in the elderly
• cerebral Vascular
• Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias
R.Antonelli Incalzi –Medicina Interna per Scienze Infermieristiche – Piccin editor
Aspetti cruciali del nursing geriatrico di Ermellina Zanetti, Marco Trabucchi