
Rita De Corte
The value of care gestures in care and training
Rita De Corte's professional life is made up of courageous choices, changes and constant and conscious professional growth. The need to learn how to manage mental illness in the family has encouraged both its approach to the nursing profession and the particular attention to the care needs of its carers.
Shelved her dream of becoming a teacher because of the financial difficulties that prevented her from having access to university education and having a technical diploma she began to take the first steps in the health field. The awareness of the lack of knowledge and the need to understand and improve in order to be able to cope competently with the care needs of the people entrusted to it have led it towards training in the health sector. As a general nurse she began working at the CRF and continued her career as a professional nurse. The work in the spinal unit sees her fervent supporter of personalized care spending with her colleagues on wonderful gestures of care favoring the return of people with serious motor deficits and their families to daily normality by putting in place both the professional skills of each and the art and creativity of the nursing profession. Over the years he has paid constant attention to self-training, the training of colleagues and students and the therapeutic education of patients and caregivers thus realizing, even in a different and different way, his dream of teaching
Video table of contents
- Presentation and early work
- 1977 Course for general nurse at the Red Cross
- Working with disabled children
- Il CRF di Torino
- 1983: Course for professional nurses Part 1
- Personal family history: a stimulus for the analysis of care needs
- 1982: the para and tetraplegic unit at the CRF: intense group work experience
- The course for professional nurses part 2
- A lucky episode to tell
- Organizing care gestures: the paraplegic unit in Basel
- Back to CRF: Working in a team to improve service
- 1989: the course for coordinator and organizational work
- The reception of the patient and his family: the importance of care gestures
- Become a tutor to share the experience.
- 2007: changing structure, reshaping care and training
- The short and tiring experience as a facility coordinator
- Coordinating the Day Hospital service: a bridge between past and present.
- A reflection on your educational and professional path
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Torino
Rita De Corte
Date of birth: 05-22-1958
City: Torino
School: High school or Secondary
Profession: Nurse
Languages: italiano
Document by: Maria Luisa Varricchio
Video by: Studenti del Master “Modelli e metodi della tutorship”
Created: 24-10-2019
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