Transcript PROYECTOS DE EXTENSION - Organization of American States

Educational Program on
Nursing Care and
Drug Abuse Prevention
Case Study:
School of Nursing Medical Faculty
National University of Cordoba. Cordoba-Argentina
V Meeting of the Group of Experts in Demand Reduction
Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2003
Background
November 1997: School joins the CICAD/OAS
Project
November 1997-1999
Phase I (Steps I, II, & III)
2000- July 2003
Phase II (Steps IV, V & VI)
PROJECT IMPACT
CICAD/OAS School of Nursing
National University of Cordoba (UNC)
Curriculum
Reforms
Research
Studies
Developing
Nursing
Leadership
Training
Professors,
Students,
and the Community
Outreach
Activities
RESULTS
Undergraduate Curriculum with Drug-related Content
Cycle
Academic Year
Name Course
Basic
First
Basic Nursing
44
Sec ond
Nursing Adults and Seniors
10
Mental Health and
Psychiatric Nursing
20
Maternal and Child Nursing
20
Child and Youth Nursing
20
Nursing High-Risk Patients
22
Research in Nursing
20
Comm unity Nursing
-
Nursing Instruc tion
-
Third
Professional
Fourth
Fifth
Total
Nursing Adm inistration
Total Hours
30
Deontology & Issues in Nursing
-
Final Workshops
-
12 Courses
186
Graduate Curriculum with Drug-related Content
Course Name
Total Hours
Ecology and environmental health
02
Soc iety, culture, and health organizations
08
Statistic s and epidem iology
08
Maternal and c hild health
15
Comm unity Nutrition
02
Fam ily Soc ioepidem iology
02
Growth and development
05
Caring for m others and children with problem s
15
Adm inistration in perinatology departments
12
Curriculum and program planning
06
Fam ily and Com munity health sem inar
03
Researc h and projec ts
260
Prac tic um
Total 13 Courses
338
Education
Types of Trainees
Professors receiving drug-related content
Number Trained
60
Students receiving drug-related content
- 2000: 1.000
- 2001: 1.000
- 2002: 1.200
- 2003: 1.200
4,400
Professionals from other disciplines
receiving drug-related content
Professors participating in Regional and
International Research Capacity-Building
Programs
TOTAL
38
05
4,503
Outreach
TYPE OF ACTIVITY
Block program: joint actions for healthy
and natural ways of enhancing the quality
of life of the neighborhood
(Programa Manzana)
Drug abuse prevention and addiction in the
health care team
Training municipal teachers in preventing
drug abuse and family violence
Workshop: Health Education to fight Drug
Addiction
TOTAL
BENEFICIARIES
280 neighbors
50 from the health team
120 teachers
120 students
570 people
Research
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
Determinants of the use of alcoholic beverages in adolescents
Use of over-the-counter medicines
Characteristics of smokers on the health team of the Holy Trinity
Children’s Hospital
Research in the Regional and
International Capacity Building
Program
Research completed
Type of
research
Line of
research
Individual
Drug abuse
prevention in the
workplace, the home,
and the community.
Individual
Social health policy
and nursing
organization
Protective Factors of Alcohol Consumption, as promoted by
Pre-school Teachers. Lic. Avila, Genoveva
Multi-centric
Women, Drugs and
Violence
Health Promotion and Quality of Life among Mothers of Preadolescents in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile : A Focused
Ethnographic Proposal. Lic. Ludueña, Alicia.
Multi-centric
Women, Drugs and
Violence
Protective Factors Against Alcohol Consumption, a Preschool Teacher’s View. Mgtr. Sigampa, Juana B
Multi-centric
Women, Drugs and
Violence
Characteristics of Pregnant Teenagers and Drug
Consumption.
Cordoba-Argentina-2002- Lic. Martinez, Liliana
Health and Work: The Use of Medicines and Illicit drugs
Among Women in the Health Care System
Cordoba- Argentina- 2002-Mgtr. Marta Giacone
In Process
Research Studies
Produced
YEAR
1997
2002
INCREASE (%)
UNDERGRADUATE
1
21
2100%
GRADUATE
1
8
800%
LEVEL
Books and Visual Materials
donated to the Library
1998
2003
INCREASE (%)
BOOKS
11
102
93%
VIDEOS/CDs
0
10
100%
YEAR
MATERIALS
Conclusions
The project responded to the mission established in the Statute
of the National University of Cordoba
Academic relationships were established at the local,
national and international levels.
The issue of addiction was permanently incorporated as a topic
of discussion in the school community.
A theoretical framework was created to benefict the wider
university community through outreach, teaching and
research in the nursing field.
The focus of outreach activities was drug abuse
prevention.
Conclusions
 The research (both quantitative/descriptive and qualitative) was
conducted, respectively, 60% by the participants in the Capacity
Building Program and 40% by the professors.
 The number of student-executed research studies rose 210%.
 Leadership activities were initiated in 2002, and strategies were
outlined for the next 3 years.
 The project was evaluated to be highly cost-effective.
Recommendations
Develop strategies to promote the sustainability of the project through:
PROJECT VISION: To promote a healthy lifestyle that avoids drug abuse.
PROJECT MISSION:
To educate nurses to be capable of promoting healthy lifestyles.
To participate actively in resolving problems that result from addiction.
To stimulate cooperation and social reflexion.
To promote nursing care for people with drug problems, through public health
promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.
Recommendations
PROJECT GOALS: to be developed for the short-term and mediumterm:
To strengthen undergraduate and graduate nursing curricula.
To incorporate optional subjects into the curriculum.
To create a interdisciplinary group to track graduate
students.
To set into motion inter-disciplinary and multi-centric research.
To train leaders at the community level.
To strengthen local, national and international relationships.
To continue training professors at the research level.