Nursing REPLICA M - ROMA AZIENDA S.CAMILLO-FORLANINI (S.CAMILLO)

Respiratory function: • Structure of the respiratory system • Physiological ventilation model and alterations in respiratory function • Factors affecting breathing • Breathing characteristics and pathological breathing • Breath detection Oxygenation: • Oxygen therapy • Devices for oxygen therapy • Aerosol therapy Nutrition and metabolism: • Definition and purposes of metabolism • Factors influencing nutrition • Alterations of nutritional functions • Help an adult with feeding Urinary elimination: • Urinary function • Physical assessment and factors influencing urinary elimination • Physiological and pathological characteristics of urine • Collection of urine for clinical tests: urinalysis, urine culture, 24-hour urine and test strips • Closed circuit indwelling bladder catheterization • Closed circuit bladder irrigation • External bladder catheter Intestinal elimination: • Notes on physiology • Physical assessment • Factors that influence the elimination, physiological and pathological characteristics of feces • Alteration of intestinal function • Sample for occult blood and chemical-physical tests • Enema • Removal of fecal impaction Water balance: • Definitions: concentration, osmosis, osmotic pressure • Organs involved in homeostasis • Hypovolemia • Hypervolemia Body preparation

Updating.

24 hours of frontal teaching.

Oral exam, questions on the program carried out in class.