Corso di Laurea in Infermieristica - Asti

The teaching contributes to the achievement of the educational objective of the teaching course of Nursing Based on the tests of effectiveness against the student knows of a statistical nature. Specifically, it aims to provide the student with the knowledge of a set of statistical methods applicable to medical research in a practical context. they will be first introduced from a theoretical point of view and then applied to examples on real data.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Nursing graduates must demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the following fields: - general and clinical nursing sciences for understanding the fields of nursing intervention, the clinical method that guides an effective approach to care, the operative intervention techniques and the evidence that guides decision making; - IT and linguistic disciplines with particular study of the English language for the understanding of the nursing scientific literature both on paper and online.

ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Nursing graduates must demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge and understanding in the following areas: - integrate knowledge, care skills and attitudes to deliver safe, effective and evidence-based nursing care; - use a body of theoretical knowledge deriving from Nursing, biological behavioral and social sciences and other disciplines to recognize the needs of the assisted persons at various ages and stages of development in different stages of life; - interpret and apply research results to nursing practice and link research processes to the theoretical development of the nursing discipline; - Provide safe and evidence-based nursing care to add health outcomes or a state of compensation for the client; - use evaluation techniques to draw up study protocols in an accurate way on the main health problems of the patients;

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Nursing graduates must demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge and understanding in the following areas: - integrate knowledge, care skills and attitudes to deliver safe, effective and evidence-based nursing care; - use a body of theoretical knowledge deriving from Nursing, biological behavioral and social sciences and other disciplines to recognize the needs of the assisted persons at various ages and stages of development in different stages of life; - interpret and apply research results to nursing practice and link research processes to the theoretical development of the nursing discipline; - Provide safe and evidence-based nursing care to add health outcomes or a state of compensation for the client; - use evaluation techniques to draw up study protocols in an accurate way on the main health problems of the patients;

INDEPENDENT JUDGEMENT

Nursing graduates must demonstrate self-judgment through the following skills: - take care decisions - decide priorities on groups of patients - critically evaluate the outcomes of care decisions made on the basis of patient outcomes and care standards - make decisions through a scientific approach to solving the patient's problems

LEARNING SKILLS

Nursing graduates must develop the following self-study skills: - develop independent study skills - demonstrate the ability to cultivate doubts and tolerate the uncertainties deriving from study and practical activity by asking suitable and pertinent questions to resolve them - demonstrate the ability to continuously search for self-learning opportunities - demonstrate the ability to self-assess their skills and outline their development and learning needs - demonstrate ability and autonomy in seeking the information necessary to solve problems or uncertainties of professional practice, critically selecting secondary and primary sources of research evidence

Descriptive statistics Numeric data types Frequency distributions Graphs Central trend measures Measures of dispersion Inferential statistics Normal distribution Central limit theorem Confidence intervals Hypothesis test

The teaching includes 15 hours of activities divided into lectures and exercises carried out in groups in order to prepare students for reasoning and mutual comparison. All the activities foresee the active involvement of the student in the analysis of the data and in their interpretation. The teaching methods require constant participation in the lessons on the part of those attending.

For attending students, learning is monitored through interactive classroom activities and verified through a final written test. The written test focuses on the latest edition of the program for all students and consists of multiple questions of a theoretical and applicative nature (exercises to be carried out similarly to what was done during the lectures).

At the beginning of the lessons, attending students will receive the reference didactic material.

Reference bibliography:

Biostatistica, Pagano M, Gauvreau K. Gnocchi, 2003

Statistica per Discipline Biomediche, Glantz SA, McGraw-Hill, 2003