NURSING AND MIDWIFERY SCIENCES

Course details

Academic Year:

2017/2018

Degree Class:

LM/SNT1 - Nursing and Midwifery

Duration in years:

Credits:

120

Location:

SASSARI

Department:

MEDICINE, SURGERY AND PHARMACY

Entry test:

Tipo di accesso:

planned access SNT (SNT = Healthcare Area)

Compulsory attendance:

Yes

Positions available (nationally planned access):

Course in brief

The course Master of Science in Nursing and Midwifery is part of the degrees
university in the health area set up at the junction structure of the Faculty of Medicine and
Surgery of the University of Sassari; It belongs to the class of degree courses of the health professions called LM / SNT1 (Class of degree courses in Nursing and
midwives).
Graduates of this class, through a theoretical and practical training, reaching a formation
advanced cultural and professional based on scientific evidence for action, with high
competence, in care processes, management, training and research in the relevant fields to
health professions of this type (nursing, obstetrics and / or pediatric nurse).

List of Courses

Course year: 1

ENGLISH - 3 credits - Language/Final Examination - Compulsory
LABORATORY: STATISTICAL METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH PHENOMENA - 3 credits - Compulsory
LEGAL, ECONOMIC AND ORGANISATIONAL SCIENCES - 12 credits - Compulsory
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES - 6 credits - Compulsory
Research Methodology - 6 credits - Compulsory
science education - 6 credits - Compulsory
SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCES - 6 credits - Compulsory
STUDENT OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES - 3 credits - Elective Course - Compulsory
TRAINING - 15 credits - Characterising - Compulsory

Course year: 2

ELECTIVES ACTIVITIES - 3 credits - Elective Course - Compulsory
EPISTEMOLOGY, THEORIES AND RESEARCH IN THE SCIENCES OF THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS - 9 credits - Compulsory
FINAL TEST - 6 credits - Language/Final Examination - Compulsory
LABORATORY: THE EDITING OF A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE - 2 credits - Compulsory
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF PERSONNEL IN THE HEALTH AREA - 6 credits - Compulsory
PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES - 10 credits - Compulsory
PLANNING AND ORGANISATIONAL INTEGRATION ASSISTANCE PROCESSES - 9 credits - Compulsory
TRAINING - 15 credits - Characterising - Compulsory

Expected Skills

1) Area organizzativa, del management e assistenziale (ambito giuridico, economico e organizzativo, processi di programmazione e organizzazione dell’attività assistenziale e sulla gestione del relativo personale).

Knowledge and know-how:
Graduates should be able to:
- Interpret the principles of the health care and administrative law in order to understand their application in the management of health services;
- Analyze patterns and the organization of health systems, the methods of health planning and financing of healthcare facilities;
- Detect and critically evaluate the evolution of assistance relevant to the needs of specific professional figure;
- Design and intervene operationally in order to care and complex organizational problems;
- To program, manage and evaluate care services from the perspective of quality improvement;
- Supervise the assistance related to the specific professional figure and carry out professional counseling actions;
- Apply and evaluate the impact of different theoretical models in operations assistance.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Graduates should be able to evaluate the performance based on the standards of practice and organizational policies continuously identifying the educational needs in relation to the nature and complexity of the problems and planning and operational strategies to manage, in order to create a professional improvement plan also using appropriate information systems to collect, catalog, and manage information.

2) Area della formazione (ambito della formazione universitaria, pianificazione e gestione dei processi educativi).

Knowledge and know-how:
Graduates should be able to: design, implement and evaluate training activities; develop teaching skills for specific professional figure within the tutorial activities and the internship coordination in basic training, and lifelong.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Graduates should be able to adopt independently effective strategies to continue to learn, formally and informally, throughout the working life through further training courses.

3) Area della ricerca e socio-psicologica (ambito della ricerca scientifica e delle scienze psico-sociologiche).

Knowledge and know-how:
Graduates should be able to:
- Interpreting the epidemiological data to analyze phenomena and complex problems in the health and the interest of nursing and midwifery;
- Use statistical methods and research tools, relevant to the professional figure, in clinical care areas, organization and training;
- Critically analyze the ethical aspects related to assistance and multi-professional and multi-cultural issues.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Graduates should be able to identify a problem, conduct a review of the literature, critically analyze the problem and present knowledge, develop a strategy to apply research in practice, facilitate the dissemination of research results.

Areas for Career Opportunities

Specialista in scienze infermieristiche ed ostetriche

Position in a workplace:
Graduates in Nursing and Midwifery have a managerial and coordination of services in which they operate nurses and midwives, as well as management of innovative projects and the reorganization of care processes.

Position-related skills:
Graduates develop, partly as a result of experience gained through adequate professional activities, an integrated approach to organizational and management issues in the health professions, qualified by the mastery of techniques and health management procedures, in compliance with the own and others' skills. The acquired methodological knowledge also allow you to intervene in training and specific research carried out in both these fields.

Career opportunities:
Graduates may engage in nursing / midwifery management functions in health care facilities operating in the Services and Departments of Nursing and Obstetrics of the Hospitals and residential or local structures such as RSA and Hospice in different sectors of their articulation; as part of risk management, quality and corporate credit; in the fields of university education of health professions for the didactic-organizational coordination and how teachers the specific SSD, after completion of bankruptcy proceedings where required

Access requirements

They may be admitted to the Master of Science in Nursing and Midwifery graduates SNT1 class (Nursing and Midwifery) and those who have completed a corresponding university degree lasting three years or another qualification obtained abroad and assessed equivalent, which are possess knowledge of English at B1 level.
For admission to the MSc program the verification of the possession of the curricular requirements and adequacy of personal preparation will be made through procedures specified in the Academic Regulations for the course.

Study Programme Reference Persons

Reference Professors:

LORETTU Liliana
FEO Claudio
PIGA Maria Domenica
FOIS Alessandro Giuseppe

Tutors:

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