Corso di Laurea in Infermieristica - Asti

Therapeutic Education is an educational method aimed at chronic patients, family members and care givers that is systematic, integrated and personalized in the treatment path. It is always centered on the patient with the primary aim of allowing the person to live their life optimally with their illness and/or disability. Therapeutic education aims at acquiring knowledge, skills and abilities for self-care and self-management to improve the person's quality of life. The fulcrum is the therapeutic relationship with the patient, conducted by the nurse who becomes an educator-carer.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

The student will have the knowledge and skills related to the main relational and support models

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Will be able to plan and support therapeutic education courses aimed at people with chronic illness and/or/disability, family members and caregivers

INDEPENDENT JUDGEMENT

At the end of the course the student should know: - Interpret the treatment intervention in an educational way

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

At the end of the course the student should know: - Use effective language aimed at therapeutic education

The concept of Therapeutic Education of the patient - definition of Therapeutic Education: who and how is educated -

The stages of Therapeutic Education: data collection, diagnosis, educational contract, methods and implementation, evaluation.

- Educational interventions/methods in the three fields of learning: cognitive, relational and gestural and for different types of patients.

- Adaptation to disease and teaching methodologies: scientific evidence - The course of Therapeutic Education for some important pathologies.

- The methods of educating the Care-Giver of a complex patient in care facilities or at home

- The concept of Health Literacy and the Conversation Map N.B. Some topics can be chosen and explored at the request of the students

frontal lesson - role plays - analysis of clinical cases - group work

- The exam consists of a written and an oral part.

- The written part will have the purpose of forming the basis for the oral discussion, and will not be the object evaluation.

- The written part involves the drafting of an educational project, according to the indications following, which will then be discussed and sustained during the oral exam.

- The thesis must be drawn up in groups of 3/4 students who can freely choose each other e must communicate their names to the teachers (Manuela Canicattì, Vincenzo D'Angelo) ed sent by email to teachers.  The paper must contain the names of the members of the group.  Contents of the educational project The group must choose a care situation that they have been confronted with at least one member of the same group. Enter a brief description of the clinical situation. Identify educational goals. Indicate the interventions that are deemed adequate to achieve the objectives identified. Support the project with the contribution of the contents received during the lessons - Formal aspects - The produced document will be of max 3 pages including characters and spaces, divided into paragraphs corresponding to the points to be developed. - It must be provided with a bibliography referring to the theoretical contents used. - 12 arial/calibre font, line spacing 1.15 Oral examination Each member of the group will take the exam individually, using as a basis starting the elaborated educational project.