SCIENZE INFERMIERISTICHE OSTETRICHE E PEDIATRICHE

Learning Objectives

• midwifery

  The second-level degree programs are built on the basis of critical thinking developed in the undergraduate studies. The development of leadership skills will enable descend to identify problems in clinical practice, the features, requirements, and the delivery systems of care in the discipline principals (MED / 47)

• Pediatrics

  General paediatrics deals with the overall health (e.g., physical, mental and social health) and with the study of prevention of diseases during childhood, i.e., during the developmental age; with developmental age we mean the period between the prenatal age (i.e., the three phases preceding birth) and the end of the natural process of physical growth and cognitive maturation (which, according to the European standards ends up at age 18 years and by the USA standards ends up at about age 20-22 years.

  Specifically, this teaching deals with:

  (a) Physiology and development of the neonate (including topics dealing with neonatal pathology), the child and the adolescent;

  (b) Prevention paediatrics, i.e., all medical acts and activities aimed to reduce mortality secondary to given diseases and morbidity (i.e., the frequency of given diseases) in children;

  (c) Specialty paediatrics, i.e. all acute and chronic diseases affecting various organs during the developmental age: cardiology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, haematology, oncology, endocrinology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, and dermatology;

  (d) Social paediatrics, i.e., health problems catering from the overall childhood community (prevention ans community medicine)

   

  The course aims to provide the bases and fundaments of: (a) anatomy and physiology during development; (b) prevention and social medicine during development; (c) health education and understanding of diseases during childhood and adolescence and of the main acute and chronic conditions physically or mentally disabling children or interfering with their learning processes.

Detailed Course Content

• midwifery

  1. Reorganization of health points (new national and regional directives 2015).
  2. The concept of risk, continuity of care and health promotion in pregnancy. Purpose, Goals and the role of the midwife. The exclusion factors. Legislation. diagnostic screenings: prenatal diagnosis, blood tests, serological and microbiological tests for infectious diseases. clinical procedures, diagnostic and obstetrical ultrasound. Controls.
  3. Perinatal Organization.
  4. Characteristics of principals and requirements for care to the pregnant woman and the woman in labor.
  5. pregnant controls.
  6. Labor and Delivery.
  7. Characteristics and general requirements of principals for the care of the newborn.
  8. Cure in the delivery room.
  9. Resignation of the newborn.
  10. Transport perinatal
  11. medical aspects - legal.
  12. Training obstetrician.
  13. Protocols and Guidelines of the Italian Society of Perinatal Medicine and International companies.
  14. Epidural analgesia: guide - lines for the obstetric staff.
  15. Equipment for the perinatal transportation.
  16. Analysis of the legislation with particular reference to obstetric health care profession (Ministerial Decree 14 September 1994, n. 740) in its areas treated) of competence.
  17. Analysis of the objectives of the practical activities carried out both quantitatively and qualitatively in the application of the relevant of the 'European Union standards, in reference with the educational standard of EEC Directive 80/154/155.

• Pediatrics

  Neonatology

  The healthy newborn

  The newborn infant and newborn care

  Low birth weight newborn

  Post-term newborn

  Birth defects

  Birth trauma

  Neonatal asphyxia

  Neonatal jaundice

  Neonatal seizures

  Neonatal coagulopathies

  Neonatal infections

  Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

  Intensive neonatal care

   

  Preventive Pediatrics

  Pediatric primary care

  Normal growth and development

  Feeding: infant, toddler, child and adolescent.

  Breast feeding

  Milk formula

  Weaning

  Neonatal screening

  Vaccinations

   

   

   

  General Pediatrics

  Growth failure

  Infectious diseases

  Cystic fibrosis

  Celiac disease

  Gastroenteritis

  Diabetes

  Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

  Mendelian diseases

  Seizures and epilepsy

  Pediatric Hematology

  Normal hematology values trough childhood

  Thalassemias

  Sickle Cell Disease

  Iron deficiency anemi

  G6PD

  Thrombocytopenias

  Introduction to Pediatric Oncology

Textbook Information

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  "Requisiti e raccomandazioni per l'assistenza perinatale" Società italiana di Medicina Perinatale

  Organizational models in obstetrics (slides)