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Practicum Profile in International Nursing I

Practicum Profile in International Nursing I
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9832
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First semester
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Module MINORS (Choose one minor)
International Nursing
Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan,

Teaching staff


  • Students can contact their academic tutor through email, also the holder of the subject, lmartind@uic.es, and the person responsible for the management of the practicum, mvera@uic.es, whenever they need to.

  • You can also contact the practicum coordinator, by appointment (if not urgent), via email. pfuster@uic.es

Introduction

The subject of Profile Practicum is a new course aimed at 4th year degree students which may be extended to 4th year students of any specialization. It is designed to help students complete their practical curriculum and go into depth in those areas related to the specialization chosen by the student in his final year. It can be developed in hospital or social health settings, as in the community field or solidarity projects, depending to the chosen specialization. It takes place in the 2nd half of 4th year and lasts 8 weeks. In the middle of the period, there will be a rotation so that students can diversify their learning in different contexts, corresponding to the two Subjects of Profile.

Pre-course requirements

  • Not required

The Department of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has agreed that it is compulsory for all students taking a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, when participating in online classes, to turn on their camera and remain visible to lecturers and professors at all times.

 

Objectives

  1. Going into depth in the knowledge, skills and attitudes of students in specific areas of professional practice
  2. Developing skills up to the required level, according to the criteria established in 4th year

Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.
  • 12. B - Know and observe the ethical code of conduct of Spanish nursing, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
  • 15. B - Work with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary professionals and other staff of health care are organized.
  • 1. G - Ability to provide technical and professional health care appropriate to the health needs of the people they treat, with full technical and scientific autonomy, according to current and available scientific knowledge and to the quality standards and safety requirements set forth in the applicable legal standards and code of ethics.
  • 20. B - Multidisciplinary teamwork
  • 22. G - Use and management of information and research
  • 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
  • 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
  • 26. G - Ability to generate knowledge from practice.
  • 27. G - Ability to adapt to new situations.
  • 28. E - Leadership in nursing care and in nursing teams to improve quality care for people, participation in health policy and professional development.
  • 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
  • 7. B - Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, ensuring their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
  • 9. E - Promote healthy lifestyles, self-care, as well as the maintenance of therapeutic and preventive behaviors.

Learning outcomes of the subject

  • Makes supervised decisions, inside the interdisciplinary team
  • Assesses the consequences of her or his decisions
  • Makes supervised use of relevant communication skills in her or his daily practice
  • Poses potential nursing research problems
  • Provides alternative solutions to problems
  • Proposes (supervised) alternative solutions, to ethical conflicts detected.
  • Assembles concrete lifelong learning proposals (LLL)
  • Decides how to implement care plans, under supervision
  • Reflect on the action and identifies improvable situations
  • Sets personal and professional development goals
  • Develops concrete strategies to achieve her or his goals
  • Successfully internalizes change clinical practice.
  • Provides appropriate care to patients, community and risk groups, under supervision, through a critical use of the Nursing Care Process
  • Implements, after a critical analysis, the results of science research into professional practice.
  • Poses care plans, incorporating elements of the cultural context of the user within Code of Ethics for Nurses.
  • Develops, under supervision, care plans aimed at health promotion and disease prevention, adapted to the target population.
  • Suggests new strategies to develop community empowerment

Syllabus

Work placement in different contexts (hospitals, social care , community or Health and Cooperation), treating patients in critical condition, chronic patients, healthy people and risk groups.

Teaching and learning activities

In person



  • Clinical tutoring: it focuses on the accompaniment of the student, by the nurse assigned to the internship center, and on the follow-up of the learning process that the student is involved in.
  • Academic tutoring: it is a learning and evaluation activity developed by a professor of the University, individually and / or in small groups, in the context where the students carry out the practices. It is based on Reflective Learning and is carried out every week, with an average dedication per student of 30-45 minutes per session. According to the recommendations of the Department of Health in force at all times, these tutorials could become online. This information will be specified at the beginning of each period by the ownership and /or coordination of practices.
  • Report of practices: At the end of the practicum, the student must deliver a work that will conform to the objectives and contents of the period and that will be included in the dossier of practices of the asignatura (moodle)

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person



  • Clinical mentoring (25%)
  • Academic tutoring (20%)
  • Practicum report (50%)
  • Self - assessment (5%)

The documents and evaluation criteria, which specify the expected learning outcomes for the student and the regulations that regulate it, are available in the practicum dossier and / or within the moodle of the subject.

The deadlines of delivery of the evaluative documents, as well as the way to deliver them is also available in the moodle of the asignatura.

To overcome the subject it is necessary to approve the evaluation of the clinical tutor, academic tutor and memory of the practium, in case of suspending any section this will be recovered in second call.

First Class of Honors is a special mention in addition to the final mark, granting this special mention will be decided by the evaluation board of the subject, according to the merits of the student. Honors not be awarded in 2nd call.

Students who fail a practicum in 1st call because they have not passed the portfolio, if they are in 4th course, they will not be able to process the title until the closure of records in 2nd call.

Honor Matrix Assignment Procedure (MH)

  1. The criterion for assigning Honorary Enrolments (MH) is based on the Excellent (9.0).
  2. The assignment is solely for the teacher and does not have to give it, even if the student has obtained a mark above 9.0.
  3. In case the teacher decides to award MH, he will not take into account the numerical mark and the highest, but will evaluate other factors. The HM might not match the highest numeric score.

Procedure for Non-presented Assignment (NP)

  1. To register an NP in the student's file, it must not have been submitted to any of the evaluation tests throughout the assignment.
  2. If a student has submitted to one of the evaluation tests, the corresponding percentages in the teaching guide will be applied, with a 0 in those not presented.

Procedure for plagiarism or academic fraud

Any assignment or activity (including exams) in which plagiarism, falsification or academic fraud is detected, will result in a failure of the activity and an academic sanction that will entail from the loss of enrolment rights in this subject, to the opening of a file process.


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  • Dossier de Laboratorio de Simulación

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