DEPARTMENT of MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCES
Learning program: Internal Medicine)
Nursing Sciences
Academic Year 2012/2013
Prof. Gaetano Serviddio
Objectives: The aim of this Course is to acquaint students of assistance activities in pathology and
semiotic fields of the geriatric and the adult age.
Moreover, its purpose is to turn students towards the clinical approach of internistic patients,
giving them the basis for appropriate assistance through a correct use of the diagnostic and
therapeutic instruments, particularly for some great interesting internistic diseases, to make
students known of diagnosis and assistance practices having preventive, curative and rehabilitating
effects.
Expected learning results:
At the end of the Course students will have acquired knowledge useful to plan patients’ assistance
and utilizing diagnostic and therapeutic instruments to manage the main internistic diseases such
as acute and chronic respiratory diseases as well as cardiovascular, metabolic, renal, neurological,
oncologic and infective disorders.
Indeed, the student will be able to manage specific treatment of the pathologies above mentioned.
Detailed Program:
1. Impaired Glucos eTolerance
2. The Fever
3. Acute Pancreatitis
4. Deep Venous Thrombosis
5. Pulmonary Embolism
6. Acute asthma
7. (COPD) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
8. Cardiac insufficiency
9. Acute Myocardial Infarction
Examination method: Oral test
Class attendance: Compulsory attendance of lectures, as required by the Academic Regulations of
the Master Degree Programme
Possibili lingue straniere (Additional foreign languages): No (No)
Textbook
Il Manuale dell'Infermiere 2 voll. 9/ed. [Nettina - Piccin Editore]
Lessons: available on line.