[Community as learning opportunity for nursing students: The Lavàl Project of Val Chiusella]. / La comunità come occasione di tirocinio per gli studenti infermieri:Il progetto La Vàl. della Val Chiusella.

. Community as learning opportunity for nursing students: The LaVàl. project of Val Chiusella. INTRODUCTION: The new competencies required for Family and Community Nurses (FFCN) involve the ability to make a community diagnosis. AIM: To describe the steps in designing an innovative internship for university students (nurses, anthropologists, educators, sociologists etc.). METHODS: After involving the municipalities, associations and local community networks, the students were asked to enter the community, keep a diary of what they had done and observed, and the nursing students were asked to produce a report based on the synthesis of the diaries, in which they would highlight the specific features, strengths, weaknessess and potentials for development of the observed community. RESULTS: As of 31 March 2022, 50 nursing students and 6 FFCN Master's students had thier practical training in addition to anthropology, sociology, geology an occupational therapist students. By 30 September 2022, 20 nursing students, 10 Master's and Master's degree students, are expected. 96 hours of interviews were carried out with local residents, meetings were held with 30 Associations and 40 events, meetings and assemblies, 12 meetings for Walking Groups, Adapted Physical Activity and Pilates, 70 hours of direct observation in the five pharmacies and 100 hours of debriefing, supervision and multidisciplinary discussion to rework and systematise the information acquired were conducted. CONCLUSIONS: An innovative experience of training in making community diagnosia and projects for solutions for a community is feasible. However, both the organisational and local concertation prerequisites are necessary to make these experiences possible.

[Improving conseling skills in nursing students of Turin university: a pilot study]. / Migliorare le abilità di counseling in un gruppo di studenti del corso di laurea in infermieristica di Torino: uno studio pilota.

BACKGROUND: Although communication and counseling skills are essential for nursing profession, specific educational program are not so widespread. AIM: Evaluation of the improvement of Counseling skills as a result of a specific training. METHODS: A multi-center pilot study with pre-post test design with a convenience sample of 65 students was carried out. The Counseling training consisted in three consecutive levels over a period of six months for a total of six days. To measure the ability of reformulation, basic tool of Counseling, a questionnaire was used with 20 interviews (hypothetical interview between health professional and patient). RESULTS: 62 students participated. The sample is composed mainly by females (84%), the average age is 23 years. The average value of BEES (level of empathy) is 41 points (± SD 11.5), the value does not correlate with age nor gender. Before the training (PRE) most of the students identified as the most suitable approach/strategy to deal with educational problems that investigative (347-27%) and the relational one. At the end of intervention (POST) most of the students used a comprehension approach/strategy (90% of the responses), opposed to before the course (18%). CONCLUSION: The training course, shows to lead to a significant improvement in using comprehension strategies to deal with issues of educational assistance of clients.