The free training course dedicated to all Italian nursing staff on the procedures required for the management of Covid-19 is online. The initiative, curated by the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan, is promoted by Generation Italy, a non-profit foundation. The course - available on the website of the National Federation of Orders of Nursing Professions (Fnopi) - is divided into three modules for a total duration of eight hours.
The lessons offer operational and immediately applicable indications on personal protective equipment and their correct methods of use, non-invasive ventilation, and stress management in crisis situations for those who have not had direct or continuous experience in the intensive care units . The course also recognizes 10.4 credits of Continuing Medical Education (CME).
"The experience we have with critically ill patients in general and the specific experience we have accumulated in these very hard weeks in Lombardy - underlined Alberto Zangrillo, Rector for Institutional Clinical Activities of the University - are a precious patrimony that we make available colleagues. "
The course is promoted by Generation Italy (independent non-profit foundation created by McKinsey & Company) through the coordination of the partners; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and the San Donato Group, which are scientific managers; by Intesa Sanpaolo, project partner for the production and promotion of the course; by Sky Italia, which allowed the making of the videos by making available its creative and productive capacity; and by FNOPI-National Federation of Orders of Nursing Professions, partners for the delivery of the course and national accreditation.
"We participate with satisfaction in this initiative and make available to everyone the expertise of our University and the hospitals of the San Donato Group engaged in this difficult context," said Professor Enrico Gherlone, Rector of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. "Sharing knowledge is the essential task to which we are called as teachers, a sharing - he added - which becomes even more crucial when the safety of health workers and all citizens is at stake".
“In an intensive care unit, observing and knowing the patient closely is fundamental, especially when in the emergency we are called to make decisions that are effective and rapid together. The experience we have with critically ill patients in general and the specific experience we have accumulated in these very hard weeks in Lombardy are a precious patrimony that we make available to colleagues ", underlined Professor Zangrillo, Vice-Rector for Institutional Clinical Activities of the University and head of the General Anesthesia and Resuscitation and Cardio-Thoraco-Vascular Operating Unit of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital.
"We are all faced with an enemy we did not know," remarked Professor Roberto Burioni, professor of Microbiology and Virology of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. “We would do the virus a too big favor by being in a classroom doing training, so we use the net and share everything we know so far. Having trained health personnel - Burioni concluded - is fundamental both for patients and for the safety of operators: this is a battle in which we cannot give in ".
