Corso di Laurea in Infermieristica - Asti

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

Face-to-face and / or remote lessons, classroom exercises, small group activities aimed at the critical reading / evaluation of scientific articles.

Written exam with open-ended or closed-answer questions on the contents addressed in the classroom and / or on a scientific article.

The scientific method and scientific research: introductory notions

Paradigms of nursing research

The concept of scientific evidence

Introduction to EBM, EBN, EBP

The research problem

Formulation of a research question

PICO and PIO

Finding evidence in the literature

Main databases

Scientific journals of the sector

Hierarchy of sources

Guidelines, systematic reviews and meta-analyzes

Quantitative and qualitative research approaches

Quantitative and qualitative research: study designs, sampling, data collection strategies, interpretation and presentation of results

Mixed methods

Classification of studies

Observational studies

Analytical studies

Clinical trials

The bias in scientific research

Ethical aspects in scientific research

Reading and critical evaluation of an article

The scientific method and scientific research: introductory notions

Paradigms of nursing research

The concept of scientific evidence

Introduction to EBM, EBN, EBP

The research problem

Formulation of a research question

PICO and PIO

Finding evidence in the literature

Main databases

Scientific journals of the sector

Hierarchy of sources

Guidelines, systematic reviews and meta-analyzes

Quantitative and qualitative research approaches

Quantitative and qualitative research: study designs, sampling, data collection strategies, interpretation and presentation of results

Mixed methods

Classification of studies

Observational studies

Analytical studies

Clinical trials

The bias in scientific research

Ethical aspects in scientific research

Reading and critical evaluation of an article