Nursing Sciences

- Acquire the historical and disciplinary knowledge about nursing care useful for laying the foundations of professional identity.
- Acquire knowledge about historical path of care, nursing care and professionalization in the 20th century.
- Acquire knowledge about the fundamental concepts of nursing, the nursing theories and method, the nursing care process, with its phases, which constitute the nursing discipline.
- To acquire the knowledge about nursing methods and tools for data collection, the interaction in communication with the person, the family and the reference persons.



- Deepen the knowledge of the disciplinary concepts, person, health / illness, environment, nursing care, which constitute the basis for identifying, according to a nursing theory of reference, the state of need for nursing care, through nursing care process.
- Know the fundamental concepts of the historical evolution of the nursing values, including ethical ones.
- Identify the principles of general ethics and nursing profession ethics.
- Acquire knowledge about ethical reasoning methods in order to identify ethical problems and solutions in practice.

The student will describe the evolution and fundamental concepts of nursing discipline, the conceptual models of reference and the nursing discipline method, the principles of general ethics and nursing profession ethics, the ethical reasoning method and the code of ethics of nurses.
The student will explain the relevance of the ethical values that guide nursing action, with particular reference to the relationship with the assisted person considering the code of ethics.