Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Mòdul Pràctic: Anestèsia
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English,
Teaching staff
Through the email of the Postgraduate and In-Person Coordinators on Wednesdays from 3:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. upon request by email
Introduction
The extraordinary evolution of surgery, anesthesia and resuscitation in recent years has made the surgical area a place within the hospital of a complexity that requires a significant degree of specialization, which requires motivated nursing professionals to work within this field the need to enjoy solid and specific training to develop daily tasks within this hospital service with leadership, competence and professionalism.
On the other hand, factors dependent on research and development, as well as the characteristics of the population and the improvement of social well-being call for a new approach in the work of the operating room nurse, which increases their strategic value within the surgical area:
• New technologies: minimally invasive surgery, intraoperative radiotherapy, new monitoring systems, surgical robotics, etc. that require permanent recycling.
• Short-stay surgery, with its specific characteristics of pre- and post-operative care.
• Geriatric surgery. Age in itself is not an impediment to surgical intervention, but the aging of the population requires surgical treatment of patients with added morbidity that require specific care.
• Emergency surgery. The implementation of pre-hospital emergency systems allows serious surgical patients to arrive at the hospital and require care that has not occurred until now.
• The humanization of healthcare. What place can be more appropriate than the operating room - where the patient will undergo a treatment that violates his physical integrity - where he will need emotional support more acutely. Therefore, it is necessary for nursing staff to play a key role in this humanization process.
Motivated by these concerns, the International University of Catalonia offers a Postgraduate Program in nursing to train Diplomas/Graduates in nursing with the basic objective of achieving the necessary knowledge and skills that prepare them to lead comprehensive care for surgical patients in the different specialties and in more depth to the nursing care of the patient undergoing anesthesia and the new technologies in the surgical field.
Pre-course requirements
- Graduate Degree in Spanish Nursing or Foreign Validation
- Be registered with the corresponding professional insurance as a nursing professional
Objectives
— Expand your knowledge and skills to offer comprehensive, quality care to the surgical patient.
— Deepen the knowledge of anesthesia and the instruments of the different specialties, as well as in the knowledge and use of new technologies applied to the field of surgery and anesthesia.
— Train excellent perioperative professionals.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
Upon completion of the studies, the nursing professional must be trained to:
- Provide quality service in the Surgical Block with efficiency and effectiveness, being part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Have knowledge of those pathologies that subject the patient to surgery and anesthesia
- Apply the knowledge acquired in the instrumentation of the different surgical specialties, to correctly develop professional competence.
- Provide moral and psychological support to the patient in the preoperative period.
- Act safely and efficiently in the role of anesthesia and resuscitation nurse, detecting possible complications in the intraoperative and immediate postoperative periods.
- Initiate the aspects of nursing research in problems specific to the surgical block.
- Develop the task of perioperative nursing with an ethical and human sense, which makes possible the incorporation into hospitals of good professionals who are experts in the surgical area.
Learning outcomes of the subject
Upon completion of the studies, the nursing professional must be trained to:
- Apply the knowledge acquired in the instrumentation of the different surgical specialties, to correctly develop professional competence.
- Provide moral and psychological support to the patient in the preoperative period.
- Act safely and efficiently in the role of anesthesia and resuscitation nurse, detecting possible complications in the intraoperative and immediate postoperative periods.
- Develop the task of perioperative nursing with an ethical and human sense, which makes possible the incorporation into hospitals of good professionals who are experts in the surgical area.
Syllabus
Teaching Unit 3 and 4 (17 ECTS)
Module Practices Processes Surgical Nursing Care of Different Specialties and Nursing Care in Anesthesia, Resuscitation and Pain Therapies. 180 hours of practice in different surgical and anesthesia areas (6 weeks of practice).
Teaching and learning activities
In person
In-person practices (Surgical specialties practices. Anesthesia practices). Tutored and with continuous evaluation, where the student will be gradually introduced into the daily tasks of the operating room, progressively acquiring skills and responsibilities.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
The evaluation will have several aspects:
1. Method of continuous evaluation in order to correct and exceed the expected levels of learning of each student as well as the pace of acquisition of knowledge and skills.
2. Evaluation by each tutor at the end of each block of clinical practices.
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