Nursing for Elderly

Code: ENF14475L

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

Objectives
- Understand the impact of aging on contemporary societies
-To interpret the model to promote well-being of elderly persons
- Justify the fundamentals of nursing intervention to promote Well-being
- Interpret health-disease phenomena relevant to the well-being of the elderly
- Analyze factors associated to the phenomena of fragility and dependence
Skills:
Reveals knowledge and understanding of health situations of the elderly.
-Apply knowledge and show understanding about particular situations of AA and Aging process marked by disease and dependence
- Makes judgments and proposes decisions about situations related to AA and aging marked by disease and dependence
- Communicates ideas, opinions about aging
- Reveals self-learning capacity by selecting documents and experiences that you share

1 Ageing Population
1.1 Impact of aging
1.2 Determinants of Active Aging
2 Aging: Contributions from biological, social and psychological
3-Holistic perspective on Aging and Well-being
3.1 Relationship between well-being and aging
Attitudes and prejudices. Elderly Care Agents
3.2. Nursing for the Well-being
3.2.1 Transitions in the life course
3.2.2 Theory of wellness promotion
3.2.3, Functionality: Multidimensional Assessment
3.2.4. Nursing care focusing on cognitive activities, mobility, sleep-rest, body care and personal arrangement, elimination and nutrition, namely dietary aspects and diets
4-Experience of illness and aging
4.1 Factors that interfere with acute and chronic illness
4.2 Nursing care associated with caring for health-disease imbalances, focusing on cognitive activities, mobility, sleep-rest, body care and personal arrangement, elimination and nutrition. therapeutic management .Therapeutic management. Dependency.

Teaching Methods

The methodologies seek to confront the student with Aging, a natural and inevitable process, using statistical data and theoretical explanations. The exposition of the themes encourages participation, understanding about the responsibility of societies in EE programs. It is important to understand the interference of adverse variables in the NP, which weaken it by dependence. Understanding the phenomenon allows us to anticipate nursing care and change the trajectory. There is a close connection between UC and others, which occur simultaneously, such as MCN, RN and MHNP
There will be spaces for individual and group reflection, especially in TP classes, using group work techniques, reading and research oriented on themes, namely in databases to integrate scientific evidence into learning.

Assessment

Continuous assessment has two components: individual reflection and group work on a proposed topic, worth 40% and 60% respectively. All the provisions of the Academic Regulations relating to assessment apply. If students do not attend at least 75% of the theoretical-practical classes, they will not pass the course unit (Article 105).
To pass the course unit, students must obtain a minimum grade of 9.5 in each of the assessment components. The final grade is obtained by the weighted average of the following factors: Assessment of the theoretical component (60%) + Assessment of the theoretical-practical component (40%).
The assessment by examination involves a theoretical test focusing on the thematic content taught in the theoretical and theoretical-practical classes.