Fundamentals of Lifestyle Nursing: A New Health Paradigm

Code: ENF15797O

3 ECTS

Duration: 8 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: B-learning

Sustainable Development Goals

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

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

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Learning Goals

At the end of the course, it is intended that the student has developed the skills that allow him to:
1. Understanding the Fundamentals of Lifestyle Nursing: a New Healthcare Paradigm
2. Understand the concept of Lifestyle Nursing.
3. Identify the pillars of Lifestyle Nursing.
4. Recognize the Role of Nursing in Health Promotion:
5. Identify the role of nurses in Health and Lifestyle Promotion
6. Recognize the effectiveness of Nursing Interventions in Promoting Health and Lifestyle

1. Lifestyle Nursing
1.1. Lifestyle Nursing Concept
1.2. From prevention to lifestyle nursing
1.3. The impact of chronic diseases in Portugal
1.4. Relationship between Lifestyle and Chronic Diseases
2. Pillars of Lifestyle Nursing
2.1 The six pillars of Lifestyle Nursing: Healthy Eating, Physical Exercise, Mental Health, Healthy Relationships, Sleep and Minimizing Harmful Substances and Behaviors
3. The role of the nurse in Health and Lifestyle Promotion
3.1. Importance of nurses in Lifestyle Medicine
3.2. The Effectiveness of Nursing Interventions in Promoting Health and Lifestyle
3.3. Integrative Nursing: the integration of evidence-based practices that promote a healthy lifestyle

Teaching Methods

Teaching Methodologies:
? The Teaching Methodology will be Interactive Exhibition (T), illustrated with practical examples (TP), face-to-face (Workshops) or online (asynchrony sessions).
? The pedagogical resources used will be Author tools for designing and designing pedagogical contents for online and/or offline exploration (authoring tools); Pedagogical simulators for intermediate evaluation and monitoring of competencies, videograms, and exercises, questionnaires and tests with formative feedback for online and/or offline use.

Assessment

Evaluation Methodologies:
The assessment takes place at the end of this training and corresponds to the presentation of a paper at a themed conference on a topic that the students will define and organize and which will form part of the PG Lifestyle Nursing: Integrative Intervention conference cycle.
The approval of the course requires the achievement of a classification of ?9.5 values.