Aim of the Teaching is to:
• provide knowledge of the principles of advanced nursing care for the early recognition, management, monitoring and re-evaluation of the person in a vitally critical condition with reference to the main medical-surgical emergencies and clinical problems in conditions of high complexity of care.
• Provide knowledge of pharmacological concepts including an overview of the history of drugs along with current issues. The topics discussed will include: pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, along with drugs contraindications and precautions. Major emphasis will be placed on the drugs used in the nursing field, as well as the nurse’s role in pharmacological research.
• provide students with knowledge on the approach to acute patients in the emergency setting, from clinical presentation, diagnostic work-up and therapeutic options.
• Provide knowledge on: general and peripheral anesthesia in surgical specialties, monitoring in Intensive Care Unit, organ failure, physiopathology and treatment, mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal removal techniques, the patient in shock, stupor and coma.
• provide students with knowledge of surgical diseases. In addition, general knowledge on diagnostic approaches is required. Moreover, general information concerning surgical approach on emergency will be explained.