First Cycle Degree Course in Physiotherapy (L/SNT2)
FIRST CYCLE DEGREE COURSE – 3 YEARS – CLASS L/SNT2
Degree Programme Director:
Prof.ssa Irene Ciancarelli
Academic Didactic Council Director::
Prof. ssa Rita Roncone
Learning objectivesThe main aim of the degree course in Physiotherapy is to train the professional figure of the physiotherapist (Ministerial Decree of the Ministry of Health September 14, 1994, no. 741 and subsequent amendments and integrations).
The graduated Bachelor should be able to:
1) Formulate a physiotherapeutic diagnosis and prognosis: Collect data on medical history, functions, activities, participation, and personal and environmental factors; Evaluate the responsibility of different functional systems using validated instruments and measures, guidelines, in accordance with the principles of evidence-based practice (EBP); Analyze and interpret critically the relevant data to locate functional physiotherapeutic diagnosis and prognostic assumptions taking into account recovery indexes; Identify the level of disability in relation to ICF (impairment, disability, social participation); Define the possible alternative assumptions when interpreting the data; Explain the clinical reasoning used in reference to the functional diagnosis of physiotherapy; Compare the data obtained from the evaluation with any bibliographical insights as a function of protecting the health of the patient.
2) Define and plan the physiotherapeutic intervention: Involve the patient requiring its active participation and inform him of the sequence of physiotherapeutic path; Define physiotherapy problems and its objectives to be achieved progressively during the course of treatment; Identify possible preventive therapeutic and palliative interventions; Choose the resources that can be used within rehabilitation; Justify the choices of the schedule in relation to the theoretical knowledge, built on data assessment and based on the best evidence available and the choices/preferences of the patient; Formulate the proposal of physiotherapy to the team for the definition of the objectives of rehabilitation project of the patient; Participate in the planning of education-information and suggest activities aimed at managing the person and self-care to patients and family members.
3) Manage your work within the service: Plan their work taking into account the objectives and priorities of the service in accordance with organizational needs and optimal use of available resources; Evaluate when planning the physiotherapy treatment for the duration and frequency of intervention in relation to the possible side effects of drugs that may affect the physiotherapy treatment; Set a single session rehabilitation according to the priority of operations, in relation to the problems and needs of each individual patient.
4) Make the physiotherapy treatment: Physiotherapy objectives according to the path that is set in the programming of assistance; Choose physiotherapy proposals in relation to the presence of any comorbidity; Prepare the setting to implement physiotherapeutic intervention; -Implement preventive interventions; Propose to the assisted person coherent activities to the program prepared, ensuring patient safety and respecting the laws in force; Propose and suggest with creativity any alternative solutions in relation to the results obtained from the patient; Use any AIDS/orthosis to facilitate functional capacity; Maintain a growing and continuous process of collaboration, in taking charge, with the patient and/or family and/or caregiver;
5) Test and evaluate the results obtained: Critically analyze proactively on rehabilitative treatment plan and proposals;
Verify proposed results ongoing physiotherapy, in collaboration with other professionals; Evaluate the achievement of objectives and measure the outcomes of physiotherapy intervention using validated methods and tools; Evaluate the whole process elaborated in relation to physiotherapy effectiveness and efficiency of the results obtained;
6) Adopt professional attitudes in compliance with the code of conduct: Ensure the confidentiality of information related to the person; Respect the individuality, ideas and expectations; Work with methodological rigor, applying the ongoing scientific developments in the field of expertise; Demonstrate awareness of their limitations with respect to the professional attitude to their own skills and competences also trough a critical auto-evaluation;
7) Establish an effective relationship with the assisted person and their relatives and the team: Establish effective communication within the helping relationship through understanding of non-verbal communication, body expression and recruitment of a compliance characteristics of the individual; Demonstrate to yourself how physiotherapy proposals may influence and/or change the functional activity; Share the physiotherapy project with the person and their families.
8) Manage risk clinical and occupational hazard in the workplace: ensure a suitable physical and psychosocial environment to patient safety; identify and analyze the clinical risk; prevent and control major events source of clinical risk; use security practices for the professional from the physical, chemical and biological risks in the workplace; adopt universal precautions for the professional of manual handling of loads.
Professional status:
Hospital inpatient and/or outpatient facilities of the National Health System; private clinics also in agreement with the National Health System; private healthcare facilities.
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