The family and community nurse in public health

The first edition of the master's degree in "Nursing in primary care digital, managerial and clinical skills for the family and community nurse" is about to start

What happens to 'acute' cases after being treated in hospital, starting on discharge? How does our territorial system manage the taking charge of 'chronic' patients? An issue made all the more urgent and evident also by the consequences of the pandemic on our health system and which was at the center of the reflection promoted on 4 June by UCBM on the role of nurses in the healthcare of the future. A useful opportunity to reiterate the idea of ​​a global vision of assistance, not only linked to the acute phase of the disease and therefore to the hospital structure, but also to everything related to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in the local area. Space in which the figure of the nurse plays and must occupy an increasingly central role.

"I believe that there is now the cultural level suitable for making a change in the system, which must respond not to local medicine but to local health"said the President of the Order of Nursing Professions of Rome, Maurice Zega. The reference is therefore to the anticipation of health problems and not only to their resolution, with obvious repercussions also on health expenditure, in which "proactivity as one of the cornerstones of the nursing profession" comes into play. The gaze goes to the Northern European countries that are organizing the health response according to the value, understood not as the number of services provided but as an assessment of the patient's social and occupational reintegration. "Until we achieve continuity of care, following patients in the health dimension they find after overcoming the acute phase of the disease, we will continue to pay excessively high costs", continues Zega explaining that thenurse can play a significant role, for example knowing how to recognize an acute or imminently life-threatening condition in order to report it to general practitioners.

It is therefore about offer the citizen an articulated health response also thanks to the recognition of the skills of professionals. In fact, not all nurses have the same university career and the same knowledge, but there are figures who have stratified their training, even in the absence of contractual recognition. Among these, thefamily and community nurse – specialist dimension of the district nurse – he is also a key figure in the PNRR which traces clear indications on the territorial health response. In this sense "university education is essential to develop and evolve this figure, with scientific production as the key point of this turning point"Zega concludes.

For these reasons it was born at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma il Master's Degree in Primary Care Nursing: digital, managerial and clinical skills for the family and community health nurse. At the end of the course, participants will acquire strategies and skills to develop a high degree of mastery of professional action, specifically:

> On an individual and family level: through direct and indirect interventions that have as recipients the person, his family and the reference persons to promote health prevention;

> At the community level: the primary care nurse carries out transversal activities with the aim of promoting the activation and integration between the various health and social operators and the possible resources present on the territory useful for solving problems inherent to health needs.

For more information on the Masters visit the dedicated page or contact us at the email address [email protected].

Applications for admission can be submitted within September 12, 2022.