Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Advanced Practicum I
Other languages of instruction: Spanish
Teaching staff
Students can contact their academic tutor through email, also the holder of the subject, lwennberg@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
UIC offers its students the opportunity to undertake a work practice placement seven months into the first academic year. Students are placed in prestigious hospitals and primary health centres, where they learn about the different career options for professional practice in nursing.
Each student is supervised by one of the professionals in the centre during their placement (clinical mentor). In addition, the practicum will be monitored on an ongoing basis by a lecturer from the university through visits to the training centre and weekly tuition at the university. This will be carried out in order to check on the learning process and ensure student satisfaction during the work practice experience.
Third year students have 17 weeks work placement. These will be divided into the different areas which make up Hospital Care (Internal Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Geriatrics, Oncology, Maternity, neonatal, ORs, intensive care, etc.) and Primary Health Care (Nursing Consultation for chronic patients, paediatric nursing, home visits, terminal patient care, educational activities and health promotion, health monitoring and occupational health, drug addiction monitoring and care, etc.), AIDIR units etc. The placements can vary depending on the curricular needs of students, the situation in health care centres, and so on.
Pre-course requirements
- Up-to-date vaccination (according to the rules laid out in the Degree Guide)
- The appropriate uniform.
- To have passed the subject Fundamentals of Care.
- To have passed the subject Basic Simulation Laboratory.
- To be in good health to attend (and not suffering from an illness, accident or any other health-related contingency).
- It is recommended to have already taken the Initiation and the General Practicums.
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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 at all times.
Objectives
During the work placement, the students must attain the following objectives:
- Integrate theoretical and practical knowledge.
- Acquire the necessary skills and attitudes to provide care to the different users in diverse circumstances.
- Develop emotional, relationship and communication skills when treating the patient, their family and their community.
- Provide care to people in different states of health that they might encounter through the Nursing Care Process (P.A.E)
- Discover the knowledge and skills that an expert uses while developing the planned strategies of the different protocols.
- Learn and put into practice the different nursing roles, and learn about the role of the various professionals within a multidisciplinary team.
- Form a cohesive part of the structure and operation of the unit and placement centre.
- Manage resources responsibly.
Specific objectives of the Advanced Practicum
At the end of the work placement the student must be able to demonstrate their ability and skill within the nursing unit. The student will:
- Acquire skills in specific techniques related to the operation of technology, materials and medical equipment in each unit.
- Recognise and be able to put into practice efficiently the Care Plans taught during the 3rd year.
- Acquire basic relational skills to work in a Primary Care Unit (EAP, Equipo de Atención Primaria).
- Recognise and participate in the various activities carried out by the community nurse (scheduled consultations, on demand, home visits, care, injections, vaccinations, extractions, continuing education, inter-disciplinary meetings).
- Get to know and correctly use the documentation and records such as HCAP (primary care clinical records), MEAP (primary care form), PAI (Individual Care Plan), ILT (temporary leave form), prescriptions, software, etc. used in the different practice centres.
- Learn the operation of the basic tools of health education.
- Understand the stages of the primary care process oriented towards the community.
- Make assessments of adult, paediatric and geriatric users, according to a model of nursing. Be able to plan care according to nursing standards and evaluate the effect of nursing intervention on the health of the user-patient
- Understand the ethical and legal principles of delegating to other healthcare team members and be able to delegate activities, under supervision, to auxiliary nurses.
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
- 21. B - Oral and written communication.
- 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.
- 3. E - Know and apply the theoretical and methodological foundations and principals of nursing.
- 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
- 6. E - Base nursing care on scientific evidence and available resources.
- 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
After completing the advanced Practicum I, students will be able to:
- Discuss the results of nursing research and their impact on professional practice. They will also be able to use these results under the supervision of their clinical tutor.
- Integrate specific nursing, medical and psycho-social knowledge into professional practice and demonstrate the ability to carry out complex procedures, both in hospitals and primary care centres as well as to identify the knowledge gleaned from the subsequent reflection.
- Conduct nursing assessments on adult, paediatric or geriatric users, according to a nursing model. Plan care according to nursing standards and evaluate the effects of nursing intervention on the health status of the user-patient.
- Set themselves specific learning objectives for their professional improvement and to establish objectives of professional development.
- Facilitate patients' involvement in any of their own procedures. Promote patient self-care using health education as a tool to support the patient and family, positively reinforcing the healthy behaviour observed in patients.
- Critical patient care.
- Understand the ethical and legal principles of delegating to other healthcare team members and be able to delegate activities, under supervision, to nursing assistants.
Syllabus
- Knowledge of the context of care.
- Communication with the patient and the healthcare team.
- Patient assessment.
- Participation, under guidance in caring for children, adults and the healthy/sick people in Primary Care.
- Participation, under guidance, in caring for hospitalised children, adults and the elderly in acute or chronic situations.
- The critical patient.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
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- Clinical tutoring: this focuses on the accompaniment of the student, by the nurse assigned to the placement centre, and on the follow-up of the student’s learning process.
- Academic tutoring: it is a learning and evaluation activity undertaken by a member of the university teaching staff, individually and / or in small groups, in the setting where the students carry out their work practice. It is based on Reflective Learning and is carried out every week, with an average of 30-45 minutes devoted to each student per session. According to the current recommendations of the Department of Health, which are applied at all times, these tutorials could take place online. This information will be specified at the beginning of each period by the head and /or coordinator of the work practice.
- Practicum Report: At the end of the practicum, the student must produce a piece of work that meets the objectives and contents for this period and which will be included in the work practice dossier for the subject (Moodle)
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
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- 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 evaluation rules, are available in the practicum portfolio and/ or in the Moodle for the subject.
The deadlines for and form of submission of the various documents are also available in the Moodle for the subject.
To pass the subject, a positive assessment must be obtained from the clinical tutor, academic tutor and the practicum report. If any of these are failed, this can be retaken in the second examination sitting.
An honours recognition cannot be awarded in the second examination sitting.
Fourth-year students who fail a practicum in the first examination sitting because they have not obtained a pass for their portfolio will not be able to process the qualification until the final results are issued for the second examination sitting.
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- Dossier de Laboratorio de Simulación